Good Sunday morning Blogland Neighborhood! Well, the MBIAJ Time Management Dept has been working on a new plan this past week to try and help put some kind of structure into what typically ends up being a day like this poor lady in this You Tube video is having....(turn off my music on the sidebar over there ---> by clicking on the middle button with the 2 parallel lines so you can hear the video).....
Look familiar ? (humor us and say it does so we don't feel even more disorganized, unproductive, and inadequate than we already do after we watch Martha Stewart or read some of the blogs written by the I don't know how the heck they do it young mothers of 2 - 8 kids who have cute, cute blogs and tons of finished GORGEOUS quilts and other BEAUTIFUL projects posted every couple of days it seems!!! When the Moonbeams Boys were little, I was just thrilled to get in the shower by 6pm and that the laundry was kind of done and there was a sort of hot meal on the table somewhere before midnight every day (and that was on my day off ...it was worse on the days I worked!) .... oh, I tried to sew ... but it just didn't fit into my day or night. And now that the boys are big boys (college and a senior in high school) you'd think the situation would be better .... but, it's not .... the day job has increasingly gotten more time consuming (or I've just gotten more burned out and SLOWERRRRrrrrrr......)
ANYHOW, in an attempt to increase productivity around here the MBIAJ Time Management Dept has come up with their....
"15 Minutes a Day" ....
..."Just 15 Minutes a Day Campaign" !!!! Yes .... they feel that (like exercise) we should be able to scrape together just 15 meesly litte minutes per day (or most days?) to make a teensy tiny bit of progress on a sewing/quilting project! (hopefully this won't involve doing some hand stitching while sitting on the throne ). AND, over time (possibly a long time) projects WILL get DONE !!!! So, that's our plan ..... anybody else find themselves in the same predicament and want to join in? We can come up with a catchy group name like "15 Minute Marvels" and a button and all that stuff that the MBIAJ Blogging Dept hasn't had time to figure out yet (maybe in one of the "15 Minutes a Day" time slots they can work on it) .... and we can post about it on the weekends to show how 15 minutes a day (or most days) can add up to actually finishing something in this milleneum !!!
Be back soon with our 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 = 90 minutes (or less) by the end of the week update ....
(P.S. thanks to Pat Sloan who found that funny You Tube video first and posted it on Facebook)
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)
5 comments:
Really? Is that all we need 15 min a day?? And just where can I get that Mary Ann? lolol
Hey where did the dancing couple go??? I loved seeing them over there on the side. Did they take a break?
Sharon ..... oh shoot .... I don't know where the dancing couple went!! I didn't notice that until you mentioned it ... DARN !!! and I don't remember where the heck I found them .... I guess they got tired and left ?
Oh my gosh that's what happens to me every day! What a funny video! I like your idea fo 15 minutes a day, but I might have to steal that 15 minutes from my sleep time.
Hi Mare!!! Finally taking some time to get caught up w/you and your wonderful Blog. Love, love, love the way you hung your beautiful little Halloween WH!!! Very unique and it goes beautifully w/the lovely quilt that I hope to make b/f next year's festivities w/all the lovelies you sent my way :) Thanks so much for all the love and support you've left over on my Blog my dear and I really like your "15 minute a day" idea!!! That 90 minutes a week will really add up quickly :) Hugs to you sweetie.
Wow. When did they sneak into my home and shoot that video of me? ROFL!
I used to sew 10, 20, or 30 minutes a day. It was an idea that I got from Nancy Zieman. I was unorganized about everything, so a friend gave me a book called Sidetracked Home Executives. That book changed my life. (I need to read it again). Now I Fly with the Flylady (flylady.com) and clean in 15 minute intervals. It's amazing how much can get done in 15 minutes. Thanks for the laugh!
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