receding urgency.

They say the first step is admiting you have a problem.

So, here I go, I have a problem, several actually, but for the sake of brevity, I'll just leave it at this one, I am an efficiency junkie.

I want things done in the quickest, most effective way possible. I want them done right.

There I've said it. All 3 of you who read this blog now know.

I heard that old country song on the radio the other day, it goes something like, "I'm in a hurry to get things done/I rush and run until life's no fun/All I really gotta do is live and die/ But I'm in a hurry and don't know why." I remember some odd years ago hearing this song on the radio when I was in the car with my dad and he said, "I think he wrote this song for me." My dad owns his own small business and runs himself ragged a lot of times and is the epitome of the efficiency junkie. Wonder where I get it from?

I really only realize this around finals, once they're over and my brain is still going 90 to nothing like I'm going to run out of time before I get everything "done", even though I have hardly anything to do.

See I go through my days incredibly too mindful of what I'm doing and how long it will take to do it and mainly how much time I have until I need to do the next thing, even when I have no specific deadlines to get whatever it is done.

example 1: Our first morning in Jamaica. I was freaking out because I thought I had slept until noon on my vacation and "wasted" time. What if I had slept until noon? I would have been...rested? But no I even had an agenda on vacation.

example 2: this morning. I was completely finished with finals. My plan: wake up and go to the rec, come home, shower, run errands, make chocolate things for family dinner, go to family dinner around 6ish. I set my alarm for 9:30 in case I didn't wake up at my standard without an alarm time of 8ish, well I woke up at 8ish and then went back to sleep and woke up at 9:30 and then freaked out a little and proceeding to hastily get dressed and get to the rec. Why was I in a hurry? I have no clue because I was back home, showered, and had my errands run before 2.

I've always thought I could be rockstar at coming in and making companies run more efficiently. I don't know if that's a job, but if it is someone should hire me.

I think I need to slow down and stop being so conscious of time because it's distracting and ridiculous. I'm welcoming the break and time at home to practice this.

hullabaloo.

I just finished my research project.

So I thought I would do a little blogging while I am waiting to get off work.

I think I've realized my biggest clothing trend pet peeve: the velour track suit.

I'm sorry if I just offended anyone who owns one, but only because it hurt your feelings, not because I regret saying I hate velour track suits, including yours.

I'm not a fan of matching track suits in general unless I suppose you are working out, or running outdoors and that is it. And then companies go out and make them in velour, a cheap imitation of some luxurious fabric and all of sudden, what is essentially workout wear becomes fashionable, solely based on utility. And I think the reason I dislike them so much is because I have seen them cost upwards of $100 AND I because most of the people I see them on are not flattered in the least by them; it seems that they think its the essential "cute and comfy" wear. I want to walk up and say, I know that is comfortable but throw it away. Okay that is the end of my rant about velour.

But while I am on the subject of fashion, I will admit that I just jumped on a bandwagon rather late, incredibly late actually. Saturday I bought...black leggings. The capri kind. Solely to wear under my favorite casual dress that is a babydoll silhouette and made out of really thin sweater material and the most comfortable article of clothing I own. I'm excited about them.

Oh and another clothing related conundrum, I took my ivory coat to the dry cleaners this past weekend and I picked it up today and they said they wouldn't clean it because it didn't have a care label, I'm assuming it got axed by the alterations people recently. But anyway I really need this coat cleaned so I'm wondering what else I could do? Plead with them to just do whatever they would normally do to a wool coat? It was Briarcrest Cleaners, which I've heard are good, but does anyone else use a different dry cleaning place that I could try.

I just found a recipe for Chicken Spinach Wheat Ravioli that I want to try soon, probably this weekend when I have time to do so much prep work, I'll report back on the results.

I will blog for real again some day.

but for now...

Mitt faces the music...in College Station.