Cutting Back

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I know I have been blabbing about needing to cut back on my activities and just general business. Well I am doing that a little more seriously now. I have been reading this book called When Wallflowers Dance, by Angela Thomas (it’s actually pretty good although slightly cheesy). It’s a lot about focusing on what really matters and cutting out the junk, so that you can enjoy life and live as you were intended to. So I have cut out mystery shopping for the time being, except restaurants and other entertainment type things. I was pushing myself to do too much with that in an attempt to make some extra money. I am working harder at selling on eBay… although my mom’s friend sells on eBay and she had a problem with a spyware related issue recently and blames it on eBay. We use AVG at our house, which is a free spyware/virus thing, instead of Norton. Jonathon is all about the free stuff- like Linux and all that- but anyway now I’m way off topic. What I was saying (or at least getting ready to say) was that I want to do a few things well, instead of a bunch of things halfway decently. I will probably keep doing a little bit of blog advertising because I actually enjoy that and it isn’t very time consuming.

I think one of the reasons I keep filling my life and time with crap is that I am struggling with the issue of being “just a wife and a mom.” I need to realize that I don’t have to be everything to everyone, and it’s okay to just focus on my little family for right now. Sometimes I feel like my world is just so small lately- but I guess that’s not a bad thing. My main responsibility should be to Bailey and Jonathon and sometimes I do so much other crap that I am too overwhelmed or tired to give them what I need to.

But this is getting lengthy and tangent-y and I should probably just go to bed instead of trying to get philosophical with myself so late at night. Thanks for listening, if you even made it to this point.

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