Today is American Thanksgiving. I know I, personally, have a lot to be thankful for this year. I have :
I know I have a lot to personally be thankful for. But the world seems more frightening every day. We have a government riddled with corporate agendas and an astonishing lack of concern for the environment. Violence persists in the Middle East, when a few years ago, it seemed that peace was coming as surely as sunrise. Rumors of violence scuttle here and there in my own country; and our government ris eacting to these whispered threats in ways that erode the very things that make our nation worth defending.
Today, we eat turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes, we watch parades and football, and perhaps some of us count our blessings. But many of us do not know how truly blessed we are.
Take a break, guys. Offer some gratitude to the universe that you live in the world where the stock market and the state of the economy are the important things, and not whether your harvest will get you through the winter or whether your family will be disappeared by the government while you sleep. Odds are you're luckier than you think.
My kitchen is: messy.
I'm a girl with an agenda. Or several agendas. And it's about time I start making some of my goals concrete so that I don't have an excuse for backing out of them. So let me go over my plans for the nearish future:
Family
These are the most important of my goals, and the ones that most of my other goals are centered around. I am a wife, I am a mother. It is important that I take the time to make a happy marriage and a happy child my top priorities. It's so easy to let time slip by, because no one moment seems overwhelmingly important; but the minutes and hours passing by build into a mosaic of waste and idleness. I don't want to spend my life being bored. I burn to DO something. Time is precious.
Business
I want to reach financial independence. I want to be the master of my own schedule. I don't ever want to be in a position again of choosing between feeding my hungry baby and risking my job. With that in mind, I've started up a little business: Smart Llama Research. The information age has brought unprecedented data to our fingertips, and not everyone has the time or the skill to filter through it for the one or two diamonds of information needed at any one moment.
Physical
I've spent too much time beng ill lately, and need to take better care of myself. This means multi-vitamins, fruits and vegetables, and more exercise. My goal i to run the Marine Corps Marathon in October of 2004. Less than two years, so I've got to get cracking. I had wanted to run a 5K by now, but events have conspired against my running schedule, and that's got to change. I will therefore go running tomorrow morning, while my pumpkin pies are baking.
Spiritual
This may seem an odd entry for me, but I have been neglecting the time I need for introspection, of late, as well. This blog is partly brought out by a need for me to look into the nooks and crannies of my own soul and see what's what. I will therefore strive to maintain it on a regular basis.
And really, that's about it. My goals are modest and ambitious all in one. Not difficult nor unattainable, but requiring a leve lof discipline I have not been recently exhibiting.
My kitchen is: clean!
Sasha still has it, I have it, and now Matt's getting it. Soon, we can look forward to passing it on to the whole family at our joyous Thanksgiving celebration! No, I'm not talking about Aunt Martha's fruitcake...it's the flu. Or at least a really bad cold. One miserable, snot-ridden family are we.
Today did have some pluses, though. Since Sasha decided we all had to get up at 7, I got to see the morning cartoons I usually miss. And I opened a bank account for Smart Llama, the Internet's best personal research business! Other than that, mostly a loss.
My kitchen is: starting to get dirty.