One of the great disappointments of adult life, is that absolutely everything you do has two parts – one the great fun, and one the mundane maintenance. Like doing the dishes. I love to cook, but it makes dishes. Lots of dirty dishes. I love having a variety of clothes to wear but wearing clothes makes for lots of laundry.

Sewing is no different at all. Sewing anything means cutting stuff out, which I hate, and cleaning up the sewing room when I’m done, which I also hate. Oh and don’t get me started on ironing. I tolerate all these things, and do them somewhat grudgingly because I enjoy the primary activity enough to make it worth while.

The last couple months, I have been metaphorically doing the dishes on my website. A friend helped me do a major overhaul, pulling out things that I don’t use, cleaning up stuff that has broken, and fixing really weird stuff like how the header would insist on staying on the screen as you scrolled down. I couldn’t figure that one out at all.

You, my dear Reader, will probably really not notice much difference at all, other than that stuff WORKS correctly now, but it took rather a chunk of time and effort to get it to that point. I know going forward that I will have to do the dishes on the website regularly to keep working smoothly, that’s just part and parcel of having a blog and website. It feels pretty darned good to have this done. It’s like after a long weekend, getting the kitchen cleaned up to where I only have one or two things to clean makes it seem so much easier.

In all things, I am learning that keeping up with the dishes as you go is much easier than doing nothing for 3 days and having a Mt. Everest of dirty dishes to over come. I know this but putting it into practice is tricky. I do tend to procrastinate (I know. You are all shocked. Thank you for that.) so I have to push myself to do just 5 minutes worth now, so that I don’t have 5 hours worth later.

So in life. Keep doing the dishes. Do them often. Keep up. Everything has dishes.