Here's the whole motley crew at BYU just a little over a week ago. And now it's back to work. And (keep your fingers crossed) to exercising and eating right and writing and doing all of those things that are good for me but that my lazy self really doesn't want to do.
Seriously, tomorrow it's back to my desk. I pulled out the chapter I worked so feverishly on in December. There are some good parts, don't get me wrong, but there are some parts that I want to cut and slash and write in the margins, "What on earth were you thinking here?" That's the obvious benefit to desk editing (which means letting it sit in your desk for a while) -- your mistakes in logic become glaringly obvious. The plan is to tidy up that chapter a bit and then to plunge ahead with the next. No big breaks. No pats on the back. I think that's what's been getting me in trouble...so much patting on the back...which really amounts to me giving myself lengthy breaks. It's all a mind game, and I'm done with it. (Or is that just another mind game?)
At any rate, I think I'll write out my shopping list tonight so I'll have that out of the way. I'm definitely going to try Baked Bree's minestrone soup and pasta and white beans with broccoli pesto (from January's Everyday Foods). I'm also going to serve chicken tacos (ala crockpot) and perhaps one more crockpot dish from the new Skinny Slow Cooker -- a Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publication that for the life of me I can't find a link for.
Also, and I can barely type it here...I'm thinking of embarking on Becky Higgins Project Life. I know. No more projects. But maybe just one. I'll just work on it on Sunday afternoons. And only if I've given three pints of blood that week to my dissertation. I swear.
I do not recognize two little girls in this family picture. Am I missing someting???
Posted by: rebecca ellis | January 11, 2012 at 07:28 PM