Let It Out of the Vault! (words by Jill inspired by Jennifer's photo)

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Let It Out of the Vault!

Jenn gave me this picture that she called “old vault door” in her message to me on December 17, 2021. I wonder how you would even unlock that thing, and I would love to watch someone do it. I also wonder what is being kept safe in that particular vault. We’ve been watching Seinfeld regularly on Netflix, so it immediately made me think “It’s in the vault.” and all the episodes where they referred to keeping a secret in their vault. 

Now that I’m finally getting a chance to write again for our blog—I can’t believe it’s been a month since I got this photo, I’m thinking that it’s time to unlock some things in my life. Mostly, I need to unlock my organization skills—maybe try to get on a schedule of some sort with my house and cleaning. I’ve been letting things slip recently, and I hate when I do that as I feel so much better when the house is mostly tidy (I don’t think it will ever be 100% tidy and put together. That’s just not me, so I am happy with it being “mostly tidy.”). 


I’m off today, so my plan is to use this time to shovel snow—we had our first big snowfall, turn on my solar panels—I missed an email about being at the step where I can do that from Friday with instructions (again, I need some help with the organization stuff), and figure out some sort of system or schedule for the house stuff.


I’d also like to unlock my creativity! I’m nearing the end of one larger writing project, and I need to get myself organized in how I’m going to finish this one and the next steps that need to be taken with it. While I’m doing that, I need to figure out how I’m going to start the next larger project too and get the preliminary stuff organized with that. Why aren’t there more hours in the day?


I’ll admit it. This isn’t the most exciting post, but at least it gets me done with this photo and onto the next one, and let’s see if I can be a little more organized and a little more creative with not only the blog, but with EVERYTHING! 


Here’s hoping!


I’m laughing as I write this. At least I’ve already unlocked my sense of humor!


—Jill Cullen (written January 17, 2022)


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