A Running Start to the New Year

[pameladlloyd]

Having stayed up much too late last night (no big party, just a touch of insomnia after a midnight supper at home with my family), I got up rather later than I like. I had a list of several projects I was hoping to either complete or make progress on, but before I'd hardly gotten started, one thing after another intervened.

First, there was cleaning the kitchen I'd left undone the night before, as there were more dishes than could easily fit in the dishwasher and doing more than one load after midnight was not anything I had any interest in doing. Then, there was the notice in my email that led me to a blog post elsewhere, about which I plan to post a separate entry, and the start I made on that post. Followed by a reminder from Karl of a project we're working on together, with a request that I get some notes to him. Then, the call around 1 p.m. notifying me of a New Year's Day party to start at 3 p.m.: a potluck, bring food. Then, the party itself, from which I've only recently returned.

So, all the projects I'd wanted to work on? Well, one or two might get some work this evening. Still, all in all, I'd say it was a good day. Productive, if not necessarily in the ways I'd planned, and I got to spend time with friends, which is always a good thing.

Comments

[eneit.livejournal.com]

sounds like a perfectly lovely way to start the year *g*

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

It was. :)

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. Sometimes you just gotta go where the day takes you, regardless of plans. I didn't get anything useful done at all (not even washing the dishes in the sink).

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Going with the flow can work, at least when the flow is in a direction you agree with. Taking it easy when you can is underrated in our always-gotta-be-on-the-move society and should be practiced more often. :)