confess sesh

Why hello there Humpday, nice to see you again. Let's just not mess around this morning and get straight to complaining confessing with Kathy. 

//I hate that stupid 'Stay Calm and ....(insert whatever stupid thing you should be doing) On' saying. Go away forever please. I just can't handle it. It makes me want to punch babies or you right in the baby maker. Either would be satisfying after seeing that stupid phrase all over the internet all the time. Sorrrrrrry. 

//If I am walking down a hallway or on the street and I pass you and I am friendly and smile - I expect a smile back. It is 20 times more uncomfortable when you do not acknowledge me and go out of your way to not make eye contact.

//Lately any time Bradley agrees with something he responds by singing 'story of my life...' and it makes me giggle every time.

//I got the wild idea to paint my nails for the one time this year. It was a fail. You should not be surprised even a little it. I almost dropped the brush and had to grab it with my hand so I had polish all over me, not to mention my nails look like a 3 year old paints them every time and they were chipped by the next morning. It's never worth the struggle. 

//I cursed at a hard boiled egg this morning that was not cooperating with me as I was trying to peel it. It was not my proudest moment, but it deserved the lashing. 

//Also, I can't stop eating hard boiled eggs. I kept forgetting to make them and then finally remembered and now I eat multiple a day. Weird? Maybe,  but I don't care.

Cheers to it being on day closer to the weekend.

<3 BB

stop telling me you're busy

So this might not be a stance that many people take or many people want to hear, but I am over people telling me how busy they are or rattling off every single thing they have going on in their lives to make it sound like they are more busy than they actually are.

Rude? Maybe, but shoot, we are all busy, people - but here's the deal, most of us choose to be overly busy. Whether it's because we are afraid to be alone for a moment or because we value our level of success by the things we have crossed off our checklists. Maybe it's because we are avoiding other things, so we busy ourselves with useless crap... who's to say what your reason for being busy is... Are you a single parent, working two jobs, and trying to raise your kids? No? Are you perhaps a small business owner doing everything on your own, while trying to also raise a family? No? Then you're probably not as busy as you claim...My guess is if you really sit down and map out your day, you're not as busy as you're leading on or your own actions are causing you to be busier than you need to be. I will also go out on a limb here and guess that your busy-ness is not making you more happy and it's probably providing you more stress...but what do I know?

If you're so busy and don't leave any time for yourself, maybe you need to reevaluate your choices in life. What are things that you really want to focus on? Maybe you should commit less to some things and really focus on the others that are important in your life. A lot of us, choose to be busy - whatever that means for you - maybe there are certain things that can be set aside and put on the back burner for a while to help. 

So here are a few tips I have for you to be less busy: 

Δ Don't hit snooze. Better yet, get up early and give yourself some ME time before you start your day.

Δ Watch one less episode of Desperate Real Housewives of whatever stupid city you like. Shoot maybe just skip the Bravo channel all together. It's horrible television anyway. 

Δ Not all productivity is good productivity. So don't think your happiness has anything to do with your productivity level.  

Δ It's ok to say no once in a while. You don't have to say yes to every Happy Hour invite or dinner. No one is going to be mad at you and if they do get mad, they'll get over it and if they don't get over it then why are you friends with them? 

Δ Get off Twitter or facebook or instagram or whatever social media you waste your time on. Emphasis on wasted time. 

Naturally, after I finished my rant I started googling busy and there are some articles that talk about this more eloquently than I did, but they didn't use awesome gifs. Like this, this, and this.

Anyway, try a few of these things and maybe your day will be less busy and I think that is a good thing.

Cheers!

<3 BB 

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