It’s About Time!

Hey!  Guess what I didn’t count on.  Christmas was really busy and really exhausting!  Fact about me: I’m usually pretty self-aware with one little exception.  I consistently, and generally with great consequence, misjudge time in all its forms.  I misjudge how long it will take to get ready.  I misjudge how long it will last.  I misjudge exactly how the weeks, the days, the hours and the minutes will flow.  Me and time?  Not really in synch.

True story.  I am late a lot.  So late, so often that when I served this great country as an Airman in the U.S. Air Force, I was actually Article 15′d (look it up, it sucks) and given a LOT of extra duty because of my inability to get to work on time.  Now, once I was there, I wouldn’t leave.  15 hour days were nothing for me.  So I found it stratospherically unfair that I should get punished just for showing at 8:15.  Or 9:00.  Or WHAT THE HELL even 10:00 in the morning when everyone knew well and good that I would be the last to leave!  My commander did not see it my way.  I’m always a little amused now when people see I’m a veteran and assume that I know how to show up on time.

But I do understand that this is a major vice and shortcoming and so I try to compensate by building in some accountability for myself.  I say to my husband, “I will do this by 4:00 on Friday!”  I say to my best friend, “I will be there 15 minutes early!”  See, if I say I’m going to show up on time there is no pressure in that.  No, no!  No, I will be so good and show you this time by being early!  I will post a specific date that I am going to do a giveaway on my blog so as to make sure I follow through!!

This friends, THIS is where the complete inability to see the truth comes face to face with reality.  My little tricks, the little games I play with myself?  They never work.  And why don’t they work?  Because my Christmas was busier than your Christmas!  Because it’s a conspiracy!  Because I’m a loathsome failure! I have no idea.  I wish I did.  If I did, I’d change it.  Because I’m self-aware like that.

I do have a winner of the Children’s Art Project 2012 Calendar with Rachael’s picture on the front though!  Congratulations Lori!  Please email me at dkadams73@hotmail.com with your address so I can send it right off to you!  Like the second I get it!  I’m going to get off the computer and put in in an envelope this very second!  Or when the post office opens.  WHATEVER!  You’ll get it by 2012!

I hope everyone had a Blessed Christmas!  Despite the busy schedule leading up to it and showing up to my parents’ house 45 minutes late and the movie with friends 5 minutes late it was a wonderful celebration of a priceless and matchless gift that gives my family great hope.

From my family to yours, may 2012 bring you many blessings!