Highlights of Life

Thursday January 14

Baby is sleeping in bed, and it’s 7:30 pm. It’s quiet at home right now. These days, the house is a mess. It’s like a hurricane went through our home. It doesn’t help that a lot of things in the home grow little legs and walk around, and randomly are placed elsewhere. Thanks to a little person, unless it’s put super high and out of her reach, things go walking. Half the time, the contents of my purse, my cell phone and my digital camera walk around the home. I don’t know why, but she is so fascinated by my purse and the contents of my wallet. It’s like I do a scavenger hunt every night for the missing contents of my wallet.

I really should be cleaning house, but instead here I am just taking a break. Relaxing. But part of me wishing that I was more disciplined, and diligent. It would be nice to move to a bigger place, where the baby can have her own playroom. Where our office is not within her reach. Currently, our living room is the playroom, the office, the spare guest room, the dining room and whatever function is required of it.

But life is good. Generally speaking. Baby is well behaved, healthy, active and happy… and that makes everything so much easier in life.

We need a 2nd car. Unfortunately, we missed out on cash for clunkers…. and we also missed out on buying the GM matrix when GM cars went on sale last month. But I guess it is to be expected. We are, afterall, living in the land of 1/2 asians and 1/2 indians (metaphorically speaking), and thus anything on sale that is of any worth doesn’t last long here. Vultures circle the sale racks here.

Life is a roller coaster of events. It would be nice to have a vacation one of these days. I think the last one we took was about 6 years ago. Between work, family, and simply living life, it’s almost like we forget to take vacations. I need to be more like my friend B. She and her husband are always taking a cruise about every 6 months. Pregnancy, work, and buying homes aside… they do take their vacations. I think the harder one works, the more one needs a true vacation. Yes, it’s about time we took one. I think that is a goal for this year (2010)…. to plan and go on a real family vacation to relax.

It always seems I’m wishing and hoping and trying to be more disciplined. I can’t remember how far back when I started to wish I was more disciplined.

The older I get, the more I realize that life never gets any less busy. In fact, it may only get busier and busier. The more responsibilities, the more we juggle things, the more things are on our plate, the more busy it gets. And I never seem to stop wishing that I could manage my time better, to be more diligent, and disciplined. Yes the “D” word again. However, I do not think it is a bad thing to wish or strive for. I know it’s a flaw of mine, and it’s something I’m working on.

Now I just need a “work in progress” sign.