I Hafta Ask.

I have a question, and it needs an answer.  Help me out, here:

 

What is the proper texting etiquette? 

 

Let me preface: I am lazy.  I loooove to sleep.  Right now, none of my children need be awake, pretty much before 8 a.m.  We all sleep until about then.  (This will change, and for now, I am milking it for all it's worth.)

 

Let me also preface: I receive texts at all hours.  Couple months back, we were all woken up, ev.ery.single.morning, for an entire week, by an early morning, unimportant, text. 

 

I've received texts after midnight.  Tons in the 5 a.m. hour.  If you are awake at 5 a.m.: 

 

I am so, so sorry for you.  Don't text me, though.  I am NEVER awake at 5 a.m.  NEVER.

I believe the same phone rules apply to texting: if you wouldn't call someone to tell them something unimportant at ten minutes after midnight, then you shouldn't text them, either.  That's what email is for.

 

Do you receive a notification when you receive a text?  Perhaps the answer to this is simply that I need to turn off the sound for texts and problem solved.

 

Okay.  Whew.  I really needed to get that off my chest.  Moving onward.

 

Let's talk about biz-nis.  Because I am on a roll, here at home.  I now call this new set of projects. . .

 

"ORGANIZATION 2013!"

 

(Does she have to call everything "blah blah blah 2013??"  Sheesh.) 

 

I have a list, and this list is loooong.  There are about 5 million things I will be building, rearranging, and cleaning in this house to make my life just a smidgen easier.  And I will start with turning the ring off for texts.

 

For example,

 

just the simple taking of old baskets I had lying around, giving each one a kids' name, and putting their clean, folded laundry into them, and sending my kids upstairs to put away THEIR OWN DANG LAUNDRY,

has changed my life.   It is such a beautiful thing.  My kids totally hate it. 

Doesn't take away from the beauty.

Let's start in the kitchen, where I spend 80% of my life.  You know.  Scrubbing those pots and pans.

The whole world is doing this, and I just jumped on the bandwagon.



I took off a cabinet door, and poorly taped the inside of  'er off. Does it look like I'm doing this at midnight? It's like 5 p.m. So sad.

And speaking of living in the frozen tundra:



it's cold in the garage. Cold enough to freeze my chalkboard paint into a massive glob of goo.

Doesn't matter. It still spread and dried.

Then, I got a fabulous friend (THANKS FRIEND!) to come over with like zero notice, because my pants were on fire,



to write measurement equivalents on my new chalkboarded cabinet door. And she did a lovely job.

Have I told you that my handwriting is at about a 2nd grade level? It is.

A little bit of left over molding I cut to size and some hooks:



and now I can actually find my measuring crap. It's a miracle.

Pay no attention to what's actually inside the cabinet.  It's all part of my master plan.