4 years later...

OK, so I decided the other day I'd start a blog (for reasons I'll explain shortly). I couldn't decide what to call it, so settled on an old favourite - guacamole theory. Turns out I already started a blog (there's an element of irony that will be revealed shortly) - this one. 4 days before starting this blog way back in 2005 I'd met some guy at a party and wrote my first post the night before our first date. I've since married that guy - which may go towards explaining why I didn't have time for a blog...

but here I am, lying in bed with my husband and my cat. good times.

Last night, the largest lotto jackpot in New Zealand was won - $36 million and some change. I didn't win. (well, I won 5th division - a free ticket - but I don't think that's what they are on about in the "living the dream" commercials.) Anyway, I don't usually play the lottery, so this whole dreaming about what we'd do if we won got a bit out of hand, and I was pretty upset that we didn't win (and I know the chances of winning are infinitesimally small, but still). I had thought of all the stuff I'd do with the money, and a lot of the scenarios involved me getting things sorted - having time to do all the stuff I procrastinate about (cue ironic foreshadowing - setting up a blog in 2005 and not doing anything about it for 4 years.).

We didn't win and I was grumpy and bratty about it all night.

I've gotten over myself and have come to 2 conclusions - 1) I don't have to win the lottery to get things done - I just have to DO them (and not necessarily write about them in a blog instead, but I'm hoping I'll shame myself into completion as done to great effect several times in the Debbie Does Edmonds blog), and 2) I have HEAPS to be grateful for and seriously need to get some perspective. I may not have $36 million dollars, but I do have a pretty choice life and need to get my head out of my bum and realise it.

So that's the focus here - getting things done and gratitude. And grammar and guacamole, because I like them and they start with G.