Yesterday was my dad's birthday. I gave him a call to wish him happy B-day and to see if he had ever read the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which is what I am going to give him for his birthday.
I asked him if he wanted anything else for his birthday, and he told me that he just went to Wal-mart and got oil filters for the cars so he doesn't need anything at the moment.
And, yes, if I had called last week and asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he would have told me oil filters.
Today I have been in a little funk. I got an email from my advisor reminding me that I have to get 3 manuscripts submitted to graduate. While I have been feeling like I have been getting lots of stuff done and making good progress, that email just made me feel like I haven't been doing enough work or making enough progress. Because if I had been doing enough, I would be graduated and published by now. I'd probably also have a clean apartment/house, a husband, a family, and no credit card debt if I had done a million things differently in my life. So the better part of today has been spent working and reminding myself that I just have to keep moving forward and things will be OK. It is a waste of time for me to feel guilty about doing this instead of that yesterday/last week/last month, I can't turn back time, all I can do is be in the now.
And hopefully, by expressing all of that on my blog right now, I am preventing more dreams about bugs in my skin. yech!
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