Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

A Tuesday in November

November 3, 2015

I’ve been enjoying the wonderful fall weather we have been having lately. The temps have been cool to almost cold and on really nice days, the sun comes out showing the tree plumage off in all its glory. Fall has become one of my favorite seasons although November comes with a price. For Catholics it is a time to remember the saints and the souls. For our family we mourn the loss of a brother and father. On a more personal level, there was the loss of a wonderful man who gave so much to so many.

Lately I have been watching a lot of Nigella Lawson’s old shows. I watched all the Season 2 episodes of Nigella Bites and now I’m going through her Feasts shows. The ones I want to watch the most at this time of year are the Christmas Kitchen episodes but they are not online anymore and no cooking channels show them which is a pity. They were amazing and it really fired you up with your own ideas for Christmas cooking and baking and decorating. Not to mention that visually they were just plain relaxing and lovely to look at. At least I have her Christmas cookbook and I’m glad for that!

I’ve been treating myself better too and realizing that I might actually be getting to know myself and who I am by allowing myself to listen to and do things that I really like without fear of guilt or judgment. It’s about damn time!

I’m still on a roll with my own brand of self-help (which is just helping myself) without anyone else’s ideas to sway me one way or another. That has been very freeing and far less confusing. I will say Flylady’s way did help me to get uncluttered once and for all and to set and maintain some routines so that was helpful. But I graduated that and am on my own and can do it on my own. Once in a while I read all my cleaning books but realize I know how to do all those things so I just need to do it.

Relationships are something altogether different and I do need more help with those so books can be incredibly helpful – it’s just hard to find the right books and even then it’s take what you need and chuck the rest. It really has been better to me to stop relying on these outside sources to tap the wisdom inside myself. Cliche? Maybe, but we all have it.

Anyway, off to start my day with a shower then housework and school. Routines, yes, but done in my way in my time.

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On November 4, 2015 at 6:51 PM, dxprog said:

Identifying, coming to terms with, or correcting personal faults/eccentricities is such a pain in the ass >_>.

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November 3, 2015

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