Erin's Brain- a Short Tour

Thoughts in January...
I really need to work on my career.  It's time to start networking, joining some professional organizations, maybe even start updating my resume.  If I just spent an hour at home, a couple nights a week, that wouldn't be so bad. 

February...
I have got to find a publisher for my book.  It's been sitting there for two years.  Friends reviewed it, everyone was so encouraging.  People keep asking what I'm going to do with it.  I should really get that going before Oprah retires altogether...  

March
It's definitely time to start exercising.  I'm headed for arthritis or a stroke if I just sit in front of a computer all day.  I'm not running at 5 am. Can't do it right after work and sacrifice dinner time with the family.  Ditto for right after dinner, I'm too full then.  I could do it at night.  What's to stop me from getting on the treadmill after the girls are in bed?  I know!  I'll only DVR shows I really want to watch on the basement TV, so I have to watch from the treadmill.  If I do just three nights a week, that's still better than my current zero...

Late March
I keep saying we should be eating better, but then I don't cook anything and we eat at Chili's twice a week.  Gross.  Time to get out the cookbooks.  I know!  I'll bring the girls grocery shopping, and teach them to love the colorful variety of the produce department, let them help me cook more.

Later in March
Woohoo!  I've watched half a season of Grey's Anatomy from the treadmill.  I'm awesome.  Everyone should do this...

April 1
I really need to start gardening this year.  It's time to get off the Neighborhood's Most Unsightly Yard List.  Just a little hedge-trimming, some cute gardening gloves for the kids... how hard can it be? 

Very late March
Hmmm... seems like I'm spending a lot of time reading other people's blogs and feeling the need to comment everywhere on everything... it's almost like I've got an opinion on every topic people are talking about... it's almost like I should really be writing my own blog... wait a minute.  I have my own blog.  Perhaps if I were to write in it more often... If I updated once a week I'll bet I could really get this up and running....

 April...
then if I got my blog really running, I could find someone to publish my book...

A little later in April...
You know what would be cool?  A block party.  We've lived here for six years, and I can't remember my next door neighbors' names.  On Desperate Housewives everyone knows everyone... not that I want someone on the block to die every year, but still... Maybe if I put a friendly little postcard in everyone's mailbox, some people would think it's a cool idea and help me plan it.  It wouldn't really be that much work, would it?

May
Why am I running on the treadmill all the time?  We only get five months of decent weather a year.  I should be enjoying it outside.  I could run alongside the girls while they ride their bikes.  I wonder if they're ready to take off their training wheels.  Maybe I should research how to teach kids how to ride a two-wheeler... I'll bet there's a parenting blog out there with that kind of stuff...

June
I am so overwhelmed.  There's never enough time in the day. I need to stop working so hard, starting all these projects.  Why do I always have to be working on some big goal?  Maybe at night I should just punch out, read a book... what's wrong with some TV?  I don't have to keep in touch with everyone I've ever met...

July
Is it too soon to buy school supplies?  I wonder if the PTA is really like it always is on TV, with all the snooty moms running crazy fundraisers, making everyone feel inferior?  Why hasn't the school sent out any back to school information? How are we going to meet the teachers?  What if they don't understand how bright the girls really are?