If only I could do this for a living…

On my many happily-bubbling-but-none-boiling-over burners, I’ve got:

• Job hunting, basically sending out resumes and checking in with colleagues.
• Goal setting, since part of the problem is my lack of overall direction.
• Listening to a lot of music (you can watch my playlist grow, right now it’s just the two songs in my head these days).
• Garage sale planning (3 weeks to go) and garage sale shopping (I picked up a backless booster for P for $3, a Melissa & Doug Alphabet puzzle for $2, a pile of Mrs Grossmans stickers for $0.10/each, new sandals for P who blasted thru his early summer pair as usual for $2 NWT, and an awesome pair of perfect condition flats for me for $0.25. Oh, and a little tabletop Christmas tree for $0.25. Yes, I know we’re Jewish, but much of our family and all of our city is not, and P always asks for somewhere to put the ornaments and decorations that get sent to us. It’s really cute and has pine cones on it.)
• Preschool planning for the little ones. Full post with links coming soon.
• Clearing up back log. Full post on birthday parts with pics coming soon.
• Volunteering, as I mentioned yesterday.
• Cooking. Lots and lots of cooking.
• Discovering piles of things in the basement that I forgot about. I love the bag of girls’ clothes I’ve gotten at swaps for my friend who has GGG triplets, and the fact that I will clear that clutter when we see them on Monday.
• Took three bags of really nice clothes to the resale store in our neighborhood.
• Reading a lot, too. Books from the library as well as the piles of free magazines I get. Next week I’ll organize the magazine pile in the basement and take 90% of them to Half Price Books for a few bucks.
• Not working too hard so that I have the mental space for my husband and my boys that I haven’t had in oh-so-long.
• Blogging! I’m so glad to be back in the habit. Even if it’s totally self indulgent. But it’s good to have somewhere I can keep track of my progress and feel accountable for doing something every day, without boring DH with the details.

Back to work!