FINALLY, a Plan Comes Together

Steamboat Springs, Co.

For awhile now, three of my girlfriends from high school and I, have thrown around the idea of meeting in Steamboat Springs for a long weekend.  After years of talking about it but never actually being able to agree on a weekend, we have a girls trip planned!   I am so excited, I can hardly stand it! 4 nights and 5 days of uninterrupted "girl time" which is sure to include many walks down memory lane, endless shopping excursions, rock hard abs by the end of the trip from the HOURS of laughing, relaxation from a day at the spa, and of course, a little drunken debauchery.  Total bliss.

Hot Springs that we are TOTALLY going to.

Isn't it funny the bond we have with friends from high school?  No other time (at least in my life) is quite like it.  I only spent 3 years at the school that I graduated from but in those 3 short years, I made some of the closest friendships of my life.  After graduation, we all went our separate ways.  I only stayed in contact with a couple of people.  I would go back for a visit every now and then but most people were gone, living their lives elsewhere.  My 10 year reunion and a little site called MySpace both happened around the same time.  I reconnected with quite a few people through both.  Then Facebook came along and I found TONS of people.  The think what struck me the most was that the people I went to high school with were the ones who were always there for each other. There was this unspoken bond between all of us.  Granted, we were spread all over the country by then, but regardless of geography, we were able to rekindle our friendships.  By the time our 20 year reunion came, we all felt like we saw each other every day.  We knew all about each others kids', husbands, jobs and interests because we were able to see it all through our Facebook pages.  Now, again because of Facebook, I get to go on a girls trip with 3 girls that I have known for over half of my life but haven't seen in over 20 years, 17 years and 2 years.  That is an amazing thing.

So, I'm adding a countdown clock to my blog so I can watch it sloooowly go down.  It took years to plan so one would think that another few months wouldn't be too hard.  No so.  
I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Perfection is the Enemy of Completion

I created this blog about, oh...4 months ago.  Yes.  This is my first entry.  Why?  Because not only am I the queen of procrastination, I'm also a part time perfectionist.  (I say "part time" because I can be sitting in the midst of chaos with clutter all around me, but if the project I'm working on isn't done, I don't see any of it.)  Where the "perfectionist" part comes in, with regards to being a procrastinator, is this: if I can't see the complete end result in my mind, I'll never start.  Period.  I am a very creative person.  If I want something, I usually figure out a way to make it instead of buying it.  I will spend hours, days, weeks, even sometimes months, planning, buying materials, organizing it all, but if I don't have every single piece of it figured out, I'll never start the project.  Ridiculous.  I know.

 I'm new to blogging.  The whole thing is intimidating to me.  Why would I want to write something that will just be critiqued?  Who would want to read something I have written in the first place?  Then there's the technological side of it.  (I was one of the original "My Space" freaks.  HOURS of work went into that page with all the cool slide shows and banners.  But since Facebook took over, I got away from it all because you can be lazy on that site.)  Is this blog layout the same principal?  I feel like I should take a class or something.  I was sure I could figure it all out but then there was a new problem.   I couldn't see how the entire page would look once it was done.  I didn't know which direction this blog should take.  Should it be a jewelry making blog?  A home decor/DIY blog?  A cooking blog? (all things I do on a very regular basis) Or should it just be a place where I ramble on about what I think is important and everyone else be damned?  Somewhere along the way, I came across this saying: 

"Perfection is the enemy of completion." 

So, fast-forward 4 long months to today.  I still have no idea which direction it should take.  And I still have absolutely NO IDEA how to navigate it all and put all the cool things up that I see on everyone else's blogs, but I finally just said screw it.  I'm not putting it off any longer.  

Soooo, here I am.  My name is Tracye.  I'm married to the love of my life.  Together we have 5 amazing kids, and 4 more of the four-legged "rescued" variety.  I've been a stay-at-home Mom for the past 18 years and wouldn't change it for the world.  Now that my kids are leaving the nest one by one and I only have 2 left at home, I find myself with more time on my hands than I've ever had.  Someday I will figure out what I want to be when I grow up.  Until then, I'll just plan thousands of projects and (hopefully) actually start on a couple.  Then maybe I'll write about it on here.  Or, I'll just bore you with my ramblings.  Either way, I actually started something without a plan.  Yay me!