Laundry Couch Potatos

My facebook status yesterday gots lots of laughs.  It said, "I was talking to Ann on the phone when she said she was just folding her last piece of laundry.  I haven't been caught up on my laundry since January of 2004."  I knew that sounded funny, but often the things people find funny aren't things I have to make up and think about for awhile.  They're just daily events and ocurrances that happen to all of us, but I say them out loud without thinking first.  So, what's the difference between my inability to catch up on anything house work related and my neighbor?  (no neigbor in particular)  My attitude.  I used to beat myself up really bad for not being more organized.  Now I laugh at it and make fun of myself.  Why?  Well, why not?  I think its imperative to find the humor in life, because we don't have to look hard for the hopelessness or pain or frustration.  It's all there ready and waiting for us to grab hold of it because it's easy. 

Our Bible study group is talking about and practicing how to change our thoughts because all of our actions follow our thoughts.  When we have actions or reactions that we don't want, we need to change our thinking before anything else.  The older I get the more urgency I feel to live life the way I want to live it; to be proactice and make choices rather than be reactive and blame my circumstances on other people or situations.  The truth is there are people with way worse situations than me that have a better attitude than I do.  It's not about my circumstances.  It's about how I handle my circumstances.  I have five baskets of laundry on my couch.  They've been there for three days.  I could feel shame for being such a lousy housekeeper or anger because it's so irritating when everyone wears the clean clothes after I wash them!  But instead I smile and decide to write about it on my blog, because I'm a writer and I'm good at that.  While I was on the computer I picked up a new defense for my fantasy football team because my team has a bye week.  When Andy gets home we'll probably play a little Halo.  I could let it bother me that I have a couch full of laudry OR I could be thankful that we have two couches!