"Construct A Scrapbook!"
I have a student who is also a colleague teaching in another department as well as a friend. As we were wrapping up the last week of classes this week before next week's final exams, the level of stress among faculty and students alike was rising. Everyone was trying to find something, anything to bring down both their anxiety levels and blood pressure. My student/colleague/friend decided that taking up scrapbooking is what I needed to take my mind off the pressures of school. Really???
The thing is, I love all things paper, and stickers, and pens...For that very reason, I have resisted the temptation to follow the scrapbooking craze for all of these years. I know it would just be one more thing for me to become totally absorbed. Today I was given a big stack of scrapbooking pages, tons of stickers, some embellishments, binders, and a trimmer. Every bit of it my student/colleague/friend chose knowing me and my interests very well...maybe too well. The themes range from family to coffee, from labrador retrievers to menopause, from music to photography and beyond. When I got home this evening, I started just looking at all of the papers. I kept thinking, "I know what I can do with that one...and that one...and that one..." I found myself planning out my days over the coming winter break.
Do I have a clean house? No. Do I have any Christmas decorations up? No. Have I done my Christmas shopping? No. Am I caught up on the photography classes that I am taking? No. Do I have any business taking on something else in the midst of all these things that aren't done? No. But...but, but I want to!!!
Perhaps that will be enough incentive to get all of these other things done in a timely manner.
I am blessed to be surrounded by so many people who care about me, and I am grateful for this awesome gift of today!
