Screw the Schedule

Hi.  Remember me?  Lisa, here.  Also affectionately known to some as Vegan Vocalmama.  I know it’s been a while.  Six weeks to be exact.  Miss me?  For the .00042 of you that did, I truly apologize.  It has been a whirlwind of good, bad and ugly.  I was so upset with myself when I missed that next post.  And even more so when I missed another, and another.  But the last six weeks have been comprised of every illness under the sun flying through my place of employment which hit me hard for a solid month and was finally diagnosed as walking pneumonia.  We had a several leaks and water damage at our home and had to have contractors out to replace and repair different areas.  We had a death in the family.  My son’s spring baseball season started (Red Sox, #50, GO MOOKIE! ...also, they are currently 5 – 0, just sayin’).  I’ve been trying to address new and colorful attitude issues from said spring baseball player.  I went away for spring break for 10 days with hubby and small person, and we all survived each other and made it back alive (seriously though, great, well balanced and much needed trip).  Now, I’m back and catching up on the regular daily responsibilities of life that I have fallen behind on over these last six weeks.

My life feels like one big schedule.  Be here, get there, time for this, late for that, and add these 19,427 things to the family calendar for next month.  It really gets crazy, I don’t know how people do it sometimes.  In all reality, I truly believe that unless you are independently wealthy in this country, your time and your life are not your own.  You find and carve out what you can for yourself.  That was why I started this blog.

I started Vegan Vocalmama as a creative outlet for myself.  As a place I could blabber on about whatever food, music or life situations or scenarios struck me that week.  Missing those weeks made me feel like a failure.  Like I wasn’t good enough to be doing this.  I thought about the bloggers I read and the podcasts I listen to, how the hell do these people do it and never miss one?  Or if they do, they miss like ONE and it’s because they are on their near deathbed with, I don’t know what, maybe walking pneumonia. Well you know what?  This is MY blog!  And I get to make the rules!  So my new rule is….

SCREW THE SCHEDULE!

I would love to write every week, lord knows enough things happen.  But I am not going to take this thing that I created to bring me joy and peace and laughter and have it just be another thing on my “This shit needs to get done, like, yesterday” list.  So for the .00042 of you out there that are happy to hear from me, don’t get worried if I’m not shining a new beacon of light in your life every week (and if I am the beacon you are counting on, you might want to consider alternatives…like vegan ice cream…or therapy).  But I will be here.  And I will bring light and food and music and humiliating and humorous stories about me and my family.  So I do hope you decide to come back.  Add your email so you don’t miss one “ha-ha wet your pants because you know you are thinking that same thing” moment.  I promise it will be worth it.  See you soon.  Peace Out.

Now go have a rock star day.