You gotta be a real self-starter in this job.\u00a0 You gotta get it done when you want it done, otherwise it doesn’t get done.<\/p>\n
Take, for example, finding my exercise watch.\u00a0 Still haven’t.\u00a0 But the point is that no one else is going to find it for me.\u00a0 No one else cares that it’s lost.\u00a0 And in all honesty, I had forgotten about finding it until I had to find it again this a.m.\u00a0 Now I remember that I was supposed to find it yesterday.<\/p>\n
Speaking of yesterday, I was antsy all morning.\u00a0 I couldn’t figure out why until I realized that in order to consider my day a “success” I felt like I had to get up and bust out of the house running (literally and figuratively), rather than toodling around the house the whole a.m.\u00a0 So in order to overcome this issue, I spent the morning just being at home, living in the moment and trying not to feel like\u00a0I had to GO and DO! (Roll your eyes if you must, but this is a journey of discovery that\u00a0I’m documenting.\u00a0 And yes, roll your eyes again at the “journey of discovery” comment.)<\/p>\n
So I – along with every tween girl in America who hasn’t gone back to school yet\u00a0– baked a batch of cookies.\u00a0 I never did\u00a0get to the store (refer to self-starter section above), so\u00a0I used the two eggs left in the fridge that expired 2 days ago.\u00a0 I figured I’d eat a cookie when they cooled and I’d give it several hours.\u00a0 If I wasn’t sick in some way after that, the kids could eat them too.\u00a0 Plus, I read that the egg expiration date is just some wacky planned obsolescence theory cooked up by that industry so that people will buy more eggs, and that in reality eggs are good WAY\u00a0past their “expiration date.”\u00a0I hope I didn’t get that theory all scrambled\u00a0(get it?\u00a0 Me funny.\u00a0 Hardy har har)\u00a0 Don’t worry, the rest of this blog will go over easy after that first egg joke.\u00a0 (get it?\u00a0 Me even funnier!)<\/p>\n
I also didn’t really have\u00a0the requisite amount of chocolate chips.\u00a0 So I had to cobble together enough chips from a bag of milk chocolate chips (about a 1\/2 cup – and not even close to expiring), white chocolate chips (about another 1\/2 cup – expired 10 days ago), and then\u00a03\/4 cup of Andes\u00a0chocolate mint pieces that expired 11 months ago (why do I still even HAVE\u00a0them in my pantry after an entire house move?!?).\u00a0 This whole time my mother’s New Hampshire accent\u00a0was ringing in my head: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!\u00a0 <\/em>Aha!\u00a0 That’s why I still have the chocolate mint pieces in my pantry!!<\/p>\n Working under the premise that EVERY industry subscribes to the egg industry’s planned obsolescence theory, I took the expiration dates as gentle guidelines and made the cookies anyway.\u00a0 Note to self: check supplies before jumping into cookie expedition!\u00a0 But my hard-boiled approach to life will get me through every time (ok, I’ll stop now).<\/p>\n In the midst of the cookie extravaganza,\u00a0I kept panicking about missing my 1:10 appointment with my son’s teacher.\u00a0 I’d be engrossed with the current project\u00a0only to think “Shit! What time is it?!” quickly followed by a glance at the clock.\u00a0 Whew! It’s only 10:07.\u00a0 I’ve got plenty of time.<\/p>\n When I was all done making the batter, I remembered how much I hate to stand there with my little teaspoonful placing plugs of dough on acres and acres of cookie sheets, so I did pan cookies.\u00a0 How innovative!\u00a0 What a fresh approach to the traditional cookie!!<\/p>\n I took a taste when they had cooled sufficiently and aside from thinking that I should have used ALL expired mint chips since it only tasted vaguely minty but in the process\u00a0made the rest of the chips redundant – I was fine.\u00a0 No stomach aches or anything!<\/p>\n Shit!\u00a0 What time is it?!\u00a0 Whew – it’s only 10:34.\u00a0 I have plenty of time.<\/p>\n I also did a wash.\u00a0 Well – I did two washes.\u00a0 One wash was the stuff that had been in the dryer for two days but hadn’t dried all the way and therefore smelled slightly “off.”\u00a0 The other wash was an actual wash.<\/p>\n In addition,\u00a0I got all the a.m. dishes done in the a.m.\u00a0 Imagine my feeling of success as I’m standing there with cookies cooling on the rack, the scent of cookies in the air and the cookie dishes swishing around in the dishwasher.\u00a0 Rock on!<\/p>\n Shit!\u00a0 What time is it?! 11:00 on the money.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 I have plenty of time. But judging by the clock, it could now be considered\u00a0late morning so I got dressed.\u00a0\u00a0In the same clothes I had worn the day before.\u00a0 Hey!\u00a0 It was a cute outfit!!\u00a0\u00a0And I was going to see a totally different group of people from the day before, so it was fine.\u00a0 I always have a plan.\u00a0 Never question the plan.<\/p>\n Sat in the sun for a bit and read my Nook.\u00a0\u00a0Decided that sunlight was the perfect light to use with my magnifying mirror to pluck the\u00a0crap out of my eyebrows.<\/p>\n Shit! Blah\u00a0blah blah?!\u00a0 11:42.\u00a0\u00a0Couldn’t take the stress\u00a0of waiting anymore so I and my red-yet-oddly-denuded brow left the house plenty early for the teacher meeting.\u00a0 Had\u00a0time to spare in fact so I\u00a0swung by the sports store to get my new sneakers.\u00a0 See self-starter note above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You gotta be a real self-starter in this job.\u00a0 You gotta get it done when you want it done, otherwise it doesn’t get done. 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