Where for art thou.... My Motivation?!?

 

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So far today I have had the longest bath, cleaned my kitchen, messed my kitchen up again and watch two films. Considering I have a major career deadline this week which I am not fully prepared for I am finding my laziness to be completely unacceptable, so for the past 30 minutes in an attempt to get on with things I have been googling motivation. Whilst most of the items I have come across are to motivate women to attain the perfect body there have been some gems... the drive reduction theory, the Herzberg Two-factor theory, Need Hierarchy theory... and a whole load more bullshit that people have spent a large chunk of their life researching!

When it comes down to it there are reasons, motives, incentives.... (the list is endless)... as to why we do what we do.... So in the hope of motivating myself I have come up with a list of my motives:

1. Success
2. Increased pay
3. recognition amongst piers
4. More responsibility
5. security both in my life and financially

Some day all this stress and confusion WILL BE WORTH IT!!!

How do you get motivated?

Now to work....

He's just not that into.....

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I made the most enlightened discovery the other day, I had always thought that my BF was just messy and the he was not that into cleaning. I was learning to live with it, I would get home from work an hour before him and set about doing some chores. However much of a walkover I might sound I can assure you this not the case... I much prefer cleaning and getting it done that arguing about it!

However I think I might have got it wrong! Two weeks ago after we had struggled with a bit of weekend DIY hanging some new curtains in our living room (which look lovely by the way) the BF made this comment.... "The curtains look great but the length will mean we will have to clean the floor more often!" 

Sometimes I wonder what planet he is on... I asked him if he realised I clean the floor twice a week and mop every 2 weeks. He stared back at me blankly... It is not that he can't or won't clean it is simply that the Dumbass is BLIND to any dirt!

Do you live with someone that suffers from DIRT BLINDNESS?

Bake off....

 

Last week I gave the Maple and Pecan Layer cake a go from my new Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days book. It seemed to turn out pretty well with people at work requesting the recipe so I was happy. But I am a bit of a perfectionist.... one thing that annoyed me was I only had 2 8" sandwich tins and one 8.5" cake tin so the bottom layer of this 3 layer cake was a little too large.

Anyway today I am feeling inspired to bake after watching the Great British Bake Off.. if anyone hasn't seen it before it is sort of like a cross between the apprentice and master chef. If only they would say "You're Fired!"

Along time coming......

It has been a while! To say the least... but I am not going to apologise for that as this blog is purely for my own amusement. Life has been pretty busy recently that I haven't had the time to ponder anything. But things are starting to get really exciting that I thought I might spark up the old blog again to share my experiences....

It might change a little bit but hopefully it will be a delightful journey.....