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Is It Working Yet?
On one of my too-brief jaunts on a treadmill before New Year's, I saw someone on the morning "news" saying that for them to be successful, we should really call our resolutions something else like "goals." I am not particularly sure how necessary the semantic difference really is (though the interview subject went on so long about it, I wound up on another channel, catching up on the top ten "weirdest" television moments, sadly for shows I wasn't aware existed, of 2009).
Anyway, I tend to make resolutions and then not tell anyone (a mistake according to the long winded lady) and then eventually they slip away and I then start resolving on a weekly basis. Sorry, making goals, until the year wraps up and the cycle begins again.
This year, in a fit of winter vacation frustration, I made an effort to at least start on the right foot and had the children create a sign for my door. (If it works at all, someday I'll needlepoint something or at least have a sign that doesn't need to be wrapped in plastic wrap due to the volumes of glitter it sheds.) One of my many large problems with focus lately has been kid interruption. I am a bit of a pushover so that even when there is a designated time for me to work, things for the boys eat into it and I find I'm back to the early morning/late night work schedule which doesn't do it at all.
So the sign. It is a simple glittery creation, a little abstract, but even Sebastian has learned at school what "red" and "green" mean when it comes to proceeding across a street or through a door.
Is it working? Not so much yet. There's a bit of a learning curve in which they barge in and then pull up short asking: "Oh what did the sign say?"
But I'm not exactly going great guns either. School returned this week, though, so perhaps it is all a matter of getting the engines oiled again, and being pleased I thought to contain the glitter shedding before I put this practical masterpiece to work.
posted by Elise at 3:29 AM
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Laura K. Curtis said...
What a lovely sign!
1/07/2010 11:25 AM
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