Painting // Emma’s fingernails, after she came home on Tuesday saying she wanted colored fingernails “like Maddy and Mommy.” (Maddy is one of her friends at school.) So why not? I’d been hesitant in the past because I worried we’d just end up with polish everywhere, but it turns out that a single thin coat plus a 30-60 second blast with a cool hairdryer is all it really takes, and her nails are done in under 5 minutes. Although now she has wanted them painted a different color every night since…
Researching // How to semi-permanently disable an electrical outlet. There’s an outlet on the wall right next to Charlotte’s crib. It was previously inaccessible, but now that we’ve lowered her crib mattress it’s within reach of tiny prying baby fingers. I’m not comfortable with the usual outlet covers since she (obviously) spends a lot of unsupervised time in her crib, so for the moment her crib is just shifted way down into the corner of the room. But I don’t want to leave it there permanently, and would rather just disconnect the entire outlet for a few years.
Learning // How to deposit a check using my bank’s mobile app. I know, I know — I’m quite possibly the last person in the world to do this. But being able to deposit a random check by taking a photo of it? Game changer! No more being annoyed by checks…because I no longer have to physically go to the bank to deposit them.
Searching // For some clarity about my career, which is both a bigger and a smaller thing than it sounds like. For the last couple years, I’ve been pretty heavily focused on career opportunities and advancement. As you can imagine, there are a lot of pros and cons to this. One of the pros is that I got to do some cool work and eventually earned a promotion and some other forms of recognition. One of the cons is that now that I’ve taken a step up, it’s proving difficult for me to reign in the part of my brain that’s constantly saying “go, go, go!” I want to be happy where I am — I AM happy where I am. But I also can’t stop thinking about the next step, and it’s driving me a little crazy.
Enjoying // All the different projects I’ve been working on this month as part of my 30 days of creativity. It’s been really motivating to have this goal, which is part of the reason I keep doing it every year. However, as a result I’m also…
Fighting // The desire to make and do everything at once. I feel like that urge is always lying just under the surface, waiting to rise up and leave me feeling frustrated and overwhelmed — and when I’ve been making a lot of things like I have been this month, I fall into a sort of “making breeds making” trap and want to do more, more, more.
Misti says
Put a blank wall plate on the outlet instead.
I feel you on the ‘fighting’ paragraph.
Sarah says
I intended to do the blank wall plate but it’s not that easy — the screw holes are occupied by the outlet itself. I could remove the outlet, but am not in love with having capped live wires in the wall.
Karen says
Just get one of those slide or twist covers and epoxy it shut.
Sarah says
I hadn’t thought of that! That may be the perfect solution!