Let me start off by saying that I am NOT a fan of mass e-mails. You know what I am talking about, the kind that says pass a long if your my friend...blah blah blah How about if you were my friend you wouldn't waste my time on stupid stuff like this! (LOL) However, last Friday my Mom sent me an e-mail with the title of my post. I opened it up and seen it had been forwarded a million times and my eyes just rolled. Since it was from my Mom and she usually don't send me random stuff like that I decided to scroll on down, and there I found a story read it, and it really made me think.

After I read the little story I knew my Mom probably thought of me as soon as she read it. Basically the story was about how we go through every day worrying about doing all these things that don't matter, and how we put aside things we enjoy to do because we feel like things have to be perfect. Then one day we wake up and realize we spent all this time on stupid stuff and missed out on fun times or family times.

Wake up call to me!!!! I am the first person to put off something fun that I really want to do because the house needs to be cleaner or I hate to spend the money because I worry that something will break as soon as I do. I can't think how many times something fun has been going on and I decide not to go because I feel the need to do chores and then I feel awful the next day because I really wanted to do it.

So here are the excuses...

- I would have come out to see you guys, but I needed to get up early to get my grocery shopping done...

- I could have went to dinner with everyone, but at the rate things are breaking this year I just hate to waste money going out to dinner...

- I should have went to the mall with my sister, I feel like I don't spend enough time with her, but the weekends are so short and there are so many things that have to get done...

and they could go on forever and ever, it's always something that needs to be done.

So I have come to the conclusion that my slight OCD over having a clean house or doing something a certain way is ludicris. Will that stop me? Probably not! I do think that it will make me think a little harder when someone I love extends an invite even though I have things to do. Maybe I will run out to the mall on Saturday to window shop, or maybe I will waste a little time sitting in Marks living room watching TV shows I don't care about just to show him I love being around him... There are so many things I pass up doing because I have stuff to do (chores) and I never even noticed until I read that e-mail.

Thanks Mom for that mass e-mail, I think it is the only one I will ever read and not throw in my deleted folder!!!

Well that's it, I want to give everyone a weekend recap but not tonight. With Marks softball game and me trying to get back on my running schedule there is little time left in the day, and if your wondering those are the things that I should be and did do :)