Midlife Musings

Reflections on life from 40-something

I Quit!

April18

Not now, but apparently some time in the past, I just quit. I got so overwhelmed that I just said to heck with it and stopped. Stopped cleaning, stopped cooking, stopped encouraging, stopped caring, just stopped. And I know that this is so, because I live in here, and I know what my house is like and I know what my heart is like, and I am just sitting here asking myself when did I quit?

I know it was awhile ago, because I am writing this post from a todo list that I started in Vegas, and that means that in Vegas I was considering “coming back”. So really, I wonder….what caused it? Because I’m dealing with frustrations, and I hate to be frustrated. This little box does not frustrate me, see. It does what I tell it, when I tell it and exactly how I tell it, for the most part. It doesn’t need the van when I do, it never passes gas until I cough and cry. And it’s not noisy, and it’s neat and orderly, and solid and dependable. Also, I never have to change it’s diaper. Or make allowances for it’s hormones.

So, anyway, here I am back again. Not on the blog, but in my life. And it’s very messy, and I am very overwhelmed, and sometimes it just STINKS, but I can take it for 15 minutes, and so that’s what I am doing–living life 45 and 15 minutes at a time. And it’s paying off, because it’s getting cleaner and it’s getting quieter, and it’s even getting huggier. Now if I could just figure out what to do about that gas!

/end first item from 6 page to do list!

3 Comments to

“I Quit!”

  1. On April 19th, 2008 at 12:42 pm kpasa (2 comments.) Says:

    Amen to that! I understand completely. If you don’t mind, I’m adding your blog to my blogroll. Let me know if you would rather it not be there! (No feelings hurt! :-) )
    kp

  2. On April 20th, 2008 at 12:26 pm Loretta (18 comments.) Says:

    Those feelings are all too familiar to me! Good to see that you’re back. I go through phases of here and gone myself.

  3. On April 21st, 2008 at 8:52 pm cass Says:

    Thank you for the encouragement. Items 2 and 3 got checked off today!

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I'm Cass. I am a full-time mom to eight great children, a Christian and a blogger. I'm also a knitter, a reader and a movie watcher. And a collector of eclectic oddities.

For the first time in 18 and a half years, I have my own little corner again. Somewhere along the way, I seem to have lost myself, and now that I realize I'm missing, I'm on the look out for me. You maybe don't know what that means, but then again, maybe you do. Regardless, this is where I'll be when I'm not being a mother or a knitter. This is where I'll be just me. And if no one ever reads it, that's ok. I'll know it's here.


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