On New Year's Day (sung in the style of U2)

Helped plan Eliza's 1st birthday party and my 30th birthday party. (Decide for yourself which one you think is more significant.)  Usually, these tasks would either be left totally to Chêz, or I would have begrudgingly turned off/paused the TV to help.  She was clearly grateful for the help, and I had fun doing it.

Carefully and lovingly prepared bite-sized chunks of a delicious peanut butter sandwich to feed to my precious baby daughter.  She threw most of it on the floor.

She's starting to have opinions. I'm not sure I like that.

Vacuumed the whole house, not just the living room like I sometimes do when we’re expecting company and running out of time.  (Sorry Chêz.)

Continued reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I'm on habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. The book is filled with timeless principles and morsels of wisdom, so I'm really enjoying it so far. Some of it is a little dated since it was originally published in the 1989. For example, it uses the term 'synergy' unironically. Whenever I hear that word, all I can think about is the buzzword obsessed CEO Teddy K from In Good Company.  “Teddy K!”

It's all about synergy.

I was surprised and dismayed to find that spending several hours a day watching TV was not one of the listed habits of highly effective people. Maybe it's listed in its companion piece "The 6 Tendencies of Mostly Defective People."

Watched some college football bowl game highlights on my phone. Not a lot, just a couple I was interested in. Is that cheating?  I did feel a little guilty afterward, even though it was literally just 6 minutes of footage.  What can I say, I’m not perfect…yet.