Longing for Simplicity

It's a lovely, bone-chilling, Sunday. I think the high here today has been 3 degrees. We had breakfast with the ILs at Cracker Barrel, and I've spent the day updating a website, cleaning out my email, and looking at ways to simplify my life.

This week, I'm hoping to meet with my boss. Work has gotten really hectic as of late, and though the extra money's been lovely, the extra hours (when a mother of a delightful almost 3-year-old) are not so lovely. I don't like when I don't have time to pitter about, leisurely read (books and blogs), leisurely write (blogs and journals), and to piddle around if I so desire.

I do not like feeling rushed, and that's what I've felt these last two weeks.

So today, as I finally buckled down to get some minor things caught up around the house, I had time to piddle about. And it's been lovely.

So, I've been thinking of things that I could do to simplify my life, aside from decluttering (Ed and Stacie, I'm envious!) which I haven't really been able to do lately, because I've been working or playing catch up (or mom for that matter!). So, I've been playing with the idea of streamlining and refocusing my life.

I've got a website I maintain from my old business - should I keep it? Or, should I revamp my current business, which I need to rename anyway. That in itself I'm not looking forward too, because I do so many things, so, I don't know what to name it. Hmmm... So, for now, I keep this other website going, at least until I decide what to do with it. Blarg.

Apparently too, I've got various accounts, for various things (mostly stuff I buy). All with various names and passwords, many, I admit, that I don't remember. So, dare I streamline with a gerneric username and password? It would be simplerer...

So, these are the little things I've been piddlin' bout.

I want a simpler life. I really do. It's just a matter of decluttering and simplifying the life I have, and that I've managed to complicate in my own little way through the years.

Hmmm... off to piddle a bit more.