evidence mounts that i don't know what i'm doing

i decided to add a list of my labels to the sidebar of my blog...in case anyone out in the world actually needed to, like, conduct research using my blog (?! i don't know why i did this!?)...of course my list of labels reads like a really bad poem and it was instantly revealed that i haven't been using labels they way they were meant to be used. so i commit to using them better in the future. for now, there are A LOT of random one-reference items that will make it super easy for that bizarre one person out there who needs to know something about "bipolar craft disorder" or "the trials and tribulations of crafting" or "vintage sheets made into pants" (i'm dedicated to making more posts about that one!) or "MRI results resulting in a simple tic disorder diagnosis" (one of my personal faves)...i'm just not that good at being willing to do things the way they were meant to be done sometimes. on my flickr page i have a label that says "everything improves with a dirty martini" or something like that and--can you believe it?--i am the ONLY person on flickr with that label. heh. i spent some time this morning trying to consolidate some of the posts with super-similar labels (variations on the same word or phrase and such), but i've done all i'm willing to do in the tidying up phase of labeldom and can only promise to be more consistent in the future.

i'm sorry to anyone reading this, i realize it probably means nothing to you, but i did start this blog as a way to just make sure and WRITE something--anything--often and well, and i feel i've done that today, even if i am the only person i've amused with my exercise. and that is a run-on sentence, folks. enjoy.

today i am going to make the kids do all the chores (mainly dishes and laundry folding--the two mountains of our house) and i am very gingerly (as my back is screwed up) going to plant the following seeds in my awesome new gardens (they are actually the same gardens, but all fenced in and with new soil and compost and woodchips and plants...so, LIKE new): potatoes, skullcap, kale, chard, radishes, lettuce, my third crop of peas, and whatever other seeds i find that can go in now.

i am grateful for:
1. my kids' willingness to help
2. that rodney deeply dug the potato and herb beds for me yesterday
3. medicinal herbs (jubal got an infection in his finger over the weekend which was not ER-worthy, but did need dealing with and the clinic isn't open on sundays...i treated it with thyme tincture and a poultice of goldenseal root and sage and it cleared up almost completely over night! i'm so pleased he didn't have to take antibiotics and that i still have the knack for herbal medicine)
4. modern conveniences like washing machines
5. cookbooks