// Currently

I'm taking it a little easy this week on the blog... so today I thought I'd share a Currently post! I'd love to hear some of your answers below (or in your own post!). Happy Tuesday, friends! xo

READING: I've been reading Adulting and it's so hilarious. I read a lot of it on our North Carolina trip but haven't been making enough time to read it once we returned. I plan to finish it soon! I'm also reading The Money Book for the Young, Broke, and Fabulous by Suze Orman because you know... adulting. I find her approach way more interesting than Dave Ramsey anyway.

WONDERING: "How on Earth we'll be able to churn out all of the necessary product to stock Honeybean with at Porter Flea. I know my post yesterday included much of this same worry, but I'm sitting in our living room completely surrounded by craft supplies, lists, and finished products. We made a huge dent in the production needs of items last night, but we have a long week and a half ahead of us." -- I copied this post for the prompts from my last Currently post in May... and this answer is exactly the same. Not only do we have another Porter Flea in a week and a half, but we're also setting up for Small Business Saturday this weekend. So much to do!

FEELING THANKFUL: To have a roof over our heads, to have food in our bellies, to have each other... all of that good stuff. I'm also so thankful that we're able to be self employed and go at it our own way each and every day. Much like my last post 6 months ago, it's a scary thought sometimes, and nothing is ever certain, but we just take it a day at a time. Not to mention I love that we live so close to family. I've spent so much of my 25 years wanting to move away and forge our own path in another state, but it recently hit me just how blessed we truly are to have so many people who love us so close by.

EATING: a lot of liquids and soft foods... this girl had a tooth extracted yesterday. woop woop! Gotta love giant wisdom teeth... sort of a bummer to only have a half-functioning mouth merely days before Thanksgiving, but it's probably for the best haha! I can hear Mike in the kitchen making something for breakfast, so that's always a good thing! Let's hope I can eat it.

WATCHING: entirely too much television. The mega perk to working from home is that you can have TV going at almost any point in the day. We make it a priority not to watch tv or anything while we're in the office working, but if we're in the living room working on painting signs, packing orders, or merchandising Honeybean, you can bet we're watching something. Currently we're loving: Hart of Dixie (Team Wade FOREVER!), Sons of Anarchy, and Louie (oh my stars I love Louis C.K. more than life itself). I'm going to stop myself there because our long list would be embarrassing to share haha!

WORKING ON: a ton of holiday sign commissions (woo!), several new design gigs (yay!), blog content for December (help!), Porter Flea merch and displays (it's too cold to do a mock set up!), our advent activities for Toby (I'm so excited!), and a new blog makeover for the new year (several months in the making... oh boy!). I'm getting myself pumped up for some long weeks ahead, but I can't wait for 2014!

LOVING: the feeling of the season. I hate cold weather and I hate that it gets dark so early (seriously... that kills my mood), but I love how festive everything seems. Planning what we'll make for family Thanksgivings, talking about Toby's birthday, anticipating Christmas and the New Year... it's a happy time of year. Just don't ask me if I love it when I'm in any store trying to buy anything. Those crowds are killer!

ATTEMPTING: to not feel guilty about stepping away from the blog a little bit. It's a busy time of year so I'm trying not to overwhelm myself with content! ideas! plans! execution! ya know? I'm also trying really really hard to not compare myself to those blog I read who do (seem to) manage to juggle all of those things perfectly. I have to remind myself most of them aren't running 4 businesses and raising a 4 year old. It's okay to just ~take it easy. *I* am the only person I need to impress. (See what I'm doing here?! Trying really hard to make myself feel better haha)

WANTING: to simplify our lives. Not meaning I want to toss out all of our stuff and cling to this "minimalistic" trend - not at all actually haha! What I mean is: I want to operate on a more "set" schedule. I want to have a better work flow and then be done with it by the time Toby gets home from school (or shortly after). I want to simplify my daily tasks and not do 10 jobs "well" but instead do 4 jobs "almost perfectly" ya know? I want to streamline things, but I doubt that's going to happen because I have a billion little idea elves in my brain and I want to do all of them and I'm a glutton for that sort of thing. We'll see!


What are you up to today?
If you're looking for something to do, share your own Currently post on your blog and leave a link to it below! I'd love to know how you're spending your day! (Currently post inspired by Danielle's feature!)

24 comments:

  1. Dang! Sorry to hear about the tooth! Get better soon!

    Your last point about simplifying things is what I'm working on as well. Setting just a couple of goals a day and, as Ron Swanson would say, whole-assing them, rather than half-assing a bunch of things.

    Don't worry about neglecting the blog a teensy bit. Life comes first, ya know!

    Elyse @ Cuddly as a Cactus

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  2. Love you tree decorations! So wonderfully random and adorable :)

    jamiepilgrim.com

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  3. Ouch, sorry about your tooth extraction. I hope you get better soon. :(

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  4. Love posts like this! What beautiful shoes :) and that unicorn, so cute!

    <3 Megan
    http://www.garden-variety.net

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  5. A tooth extraction is never fun, super painful - ouch! Hopefully you'll be on the mend soon. I'm also planning blog content for December and it's also a (help) situation hah! x

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  6. Fun! I did one on my blog:
    http://momclothes.blogspot.com/2013/11/currently.html

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  7. I adore your tree decorations!
    I'm currently attempting to figure out plans for next year and as always, blog posts/what I want to even do with my blog.

    http://afairynamedfay.blogspot.com

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  8. Gonna be buying one of these for MYSELF soon with the quote, "Radiant as the Sun" because Katniss says it and it's now my life quote. <3

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  9. Damn it Kaelah, you totally copied my idea! :P You're awesome so i'll let you off ;) haha

    http://ohleona.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/whats-happy-haps.html
    x

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  10. Kaelah - Adulting is fabulous! It's one of my holiday picks at work this year! Thanks for inspiring me to write today. http://maplessandrumless.blogspot.com/2013/11/currently.html

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  11. Sorry about the tooth! Yuck!! Luckily Thanksgiving is filled with yummy soft foods like mashed potatoes and stuffing. :)

    Oh, and I wanted to say a big THANK YOU for introducing me to the amazing PopBasic. I broke my foot right after my birthday in October and was all depressed, and I vaguely remember seeing the Rubi collection in a post and in a pain-killer haze using my b-day money to buy the collection. I JUST got a chance to wear the dress and it was awesome!!!! So comfy and (best of all) it goes with my ridiculous grey CAM boot. Yay for coordination with medical equiptment.

    :)

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  12. Sorry about the tooth! Yuck!! Luckily Thanksgiving is filled with yummy soft foods like mashed potatoes and stuffing. :)

    Oh, and I wanted to say a big THANK YOU for introducing me to the amazing PopBasic. I broke my foot right after my birthday in October and was all depressed, and I vaguely remember seeing the Rubi collection in a post and in a pain-killer haze using my b-day money to buy the collection. I JUST got a chance to wear the dress and it was awesome!!!! So comfy and (best of all) it goes with my ridiculous grey CAM boot. Yay for coordination with medical equiptment.

    :)

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  13. Don't be afraid to step away from your blog a little bit! All of you true fans (myself included) will be right here when you feel up to it again! I just started blogging, so I have no idea how much work truly goes into it yet, but I'm sure it's very taxing! You are one of my favorites (you've survived at least 3 Bloglovin' purges, ha!), and you deserve a break!
    Also, thank you for the inspiration to do a currently post. I posted one here: http://whatevskarasyn.blogspot.com/ take a look if you want, but no worries if you don't. I don't want to be one of those people who is all "OMGLOOKATMYBLOG, PAGEEEEVEIWZZZ" ya know?

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  14. Adulting looks fun. I am going to try it out. Thanks for the tip!!

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  15. Hi Kaelah,
    I absolutely loved this post! this was so fun, I had to do a post of my own on this! My blog is

    http://ameliabadealia.blogspot.com/2013/11/currently.html

    Thanks for the inspiration! And for something fun to do!

    <3 Amelia

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  16. good to know those things about you! the signs you've been doing, they are amazing!! kind of things that I was like, oh I wish I thought of that first! ;)

    Katrina Sophia Blog

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  17. Loved Your blog post today Kaelah :)
    Do check My currentlies!
    www.sweetswithfreaks.blogspot.com

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  18. I waited to do mine until this morning, mostly so I could gush about how my parents are coming, hahaha.

    http://stressandstars.blogspot.com/2013/11/currently.html

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  19. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and feel better soon (I'm due to have my wisdom teeth yanked over winter break, welp)!

    http://bluenannah.blogspot.com/2013/11/currently-12113.html

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  20. *hugs* on the tooth! Was afraid I was going to have to do the same but was determine to hold out. Hope you were able to enjoy Thanksgiving yummies anyway! <3

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  21. Lovely pictures ~ that white china kitten is perfectly sweet. Also, I love this feature and I decided to do one of my own here. Mine's more of a "happenings of the month" post than a "today" post though. :)

    xox,
    bonita of Lavender & Twill

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  22. Love these posts! I just did my first - I'm so into Christmas right now, too!
    http://www.tabayag.com/archives/2452/currently/

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  23. Great post! Thanks for sharing :) Here is what I have been up to lately, this is my first "Currently" post for my blog so I'm a little excited about it :)
    http://ciaramcguiredesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/currently.html

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HEY! Thanks for dropping by. xo KB