Distractions and Attractions

Good news: Fall is here, having fun decorating the shop. Bad news: In a hurry, dragged all kinds of stuff out and now the back room looks like a tornado went through! Today's task: Clean up my mess!

So, here's what happened, maybe this will sound familiar to you...I started out this morning with a plan and a conquering attitude. I was gonna tackle that backroom with firth and vigor. Ha! I got about five minutes in, then realized that I couldn't really move this box without finding a home for that box, and if I moved those two shelves I would have more room, and if I switched this cart for that desk, I could create more room there, and maybe I should store these things under here....it all went speedily downhill from there. Sigh...

Meanwhile, I have to tell you about my newest love, the new flavors of Hershey's kisses...pumpkin spice, caramel apple, and candy corn. So cute and heavenly! Realizing my distraction in the backroom, I took a break and indulged. Realizing I had indulged a bit too many (By the sheer number of little foil wrappers!), I decided to keep these in a jar up front.

Can you guess what happened then? Yup. I worked a little in the back, snuck up front for a kiss, worked a little in the back, snuck up front yet again for a kiss. This continued till lunch, when, surprise! wasn't really hungry for lunch today for some reason. By the time the kids came in after school, I didn't feel so well. And the back room wasn't much better than when I had started this morning. Oh well...

Some days are just like that: High hopes in the morning, then one distraction after another and poof! the day is gone. (In my defense, I got LOTS of work done in the front of the store, hee hee.) What lesson did I learn from today? One: Do not, for any reason whatsoever, buy Hershey's kisses; they are small, but deceptively dangerous. And two: Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans...sometimes things just don't according to plan. Shake it off, start fresh tomorrow.

And three: Think that's what The Killers meant with those song lyrics: It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this?

It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss.