This morning I watched the movie "Julie and Julia"! It was a delight to watch, not to mention how inspiring it was. I can identify with Julie from an A.D.D. perspective and how finishing something is important. I liked the part where she says that's the reason why she's so bad at keeping house.
I give Julie tons of credit for taking on her challenge and I'm inspired, not to copy or re-create the Julie/Julia Project, but to for once in my life, get something done. The feeling of actually finishing something you started is as rewarding to me as, well, winning a race.
It's exhausting being me. I, like Julie and Julia, have married a Saint. Without him, I would be more lost than I am in this world. We left our big fat lives in New York and moved to the beach in Wilmington, NC to open a boutique winery. Look us up at www.nbwinery.com. We began this project 2.5 years ago and we aggressively strive to keep 60 varieties of wine, made by us, on premise, on the shelves. Don't get me wrong....I asked for this....but being open 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, is quite a lot to manage, let alone a house and two kids. OK, boo hoo, I'm tired and for once would like to go home to a clean and tidy house.....therefore, I am going to hire a house keeper! Ingenious, no? NO! I need to be in control of everything and hiring a housekeeper is out of the question.
So....I will be inspired by the woman who took on the courageous challenge of cooking French, and just do something for once! I am going to leave work early today and clean my house until it is all done! Then I am going to schedule time to do something every day to maintain it! There....so it is written, so it will be done!
Thank you Julia!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
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I, too, was inspired by Julie/Julia. For me, however, it was by her incredible meltdowns in the kitchen, where she flayed out spread eagle on the floor. Incidently, it was after consuming your delicious wine, which I will keep coming back for over and over and over. I especially love your new Sugar Cookie red wine, not too sweet, but with enough to tantalize my taste buds with hints of nutmeg, raisins, currants, and hmmm...maybe some vanilla. This comes in close to my second favorite, with the first being the Luna. Here's to a Happy New Year, and I promise to drink more wine!!!
Well, doing the house work must have killed you because no more posts since them! I am just finding your blog (linked over from Twin Creek Farms) and am sorry to see no posts in 2010. Hope you are back to blogging soon. BTW, I loved the movie too and was also inspired to greater things, but a clean house is WAY overated! :)
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UdderMost Farm Girl:
House work ALWAYS kills me! However, we run the winery 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and there is not much time to blog...Yes, cleaning house is over rated, however, after 12 hours at work, it's depressing to come home to a messy house!!
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