Yikes!! What Happened to Coasting??

Well, I seem to be diving head first into one more project ... redoing a bedroom downstairs.

It all started with one innocent thought ... we should just start ... and now the wheels are in motion. Once started, the job must be completed. Thankfully we aren't in any rush but that doesn't normally stop me once I have got things going. I mentioned the idea of going ahead with this to my Second Son this morning and by tonight he had a hitch installed on his truck (so he could tow a trailer for the garbage) and he started ripping things apart. He doesn't let any moss grow under his feet!! I kind of like that.

I'm puttering around with a new editing program after my free trial ended on my first one. So I spent hours at that tonight. If I could combine what I like about the first program with what I like about the second one, it would be ideal. But in the meantime, I have wasted a lot of time trying out things that didn't quite work out as planned. Oh well, best to make these mistakes when I'm not pressured for time. I have lots of ideas for this once I get it figured out, but no deadlines in the near future.

And so I near the end of the longest week in recent history! Last weekend went by in such a blur, I'm in need of a relatively lazy day off. I am looking forward to Sunday.

And as I sign off here in the wee hours of the morning, there goes my resolution to start some stretching exercises tonight and get up a half hour earlier tomorrow to start back in the exercise habit. Tomorrow ......

Coasting

I don't seem to have a lot of excess anything this week. I am in 'coast' mode ...

I don't seem to have my focus narrowed in on any one particular topic right now. I'm thinking on things but not acting.

One thing I seem to be stuck on, is knowing that I should get back to exercising. 'Oprah' is telling me, Mom is subtly encouraging me, everything you hear these days focuses upon how important exercise is, and I know this. The one thing that is stopping me is that extra hour I get to sleep if I don't exercise. My body prefers getting up at 6 am. 5 am is just too early. The key for exercising for me was doing it before my day began. Once the day begins and gets going, it is hard to squeeze it in. If you hop out of bed and exercise immediately, it gives you a jump start to the day and it is one of those 'impossible things' that is done and over with.

I exercised religiously every morning for a few years. And I felt so good about it. I need to push myself back to that place! I could use that hour of exercising to let my thoughts flow and hopefully inspire the words that I want to write, to the surface.

And now that I have written those words, I shall go through my exercise tapes and DVD's and find a way to ease myself back into a healthier lifestyle. I need to focus on action (not just thinking!).

Back on Track

Wow! My body didn't feel tired but man oh man, was my brain overloaded!! Yesterday morning I looked at the ripe bananas sitting on my kitchen counter and could have cried ... yet another thing on the long to-do-list in my brain.

But ... I kept puttering away at my list of 'Impossible Things' ... and I'm back down to a manageable level once again.

I seem to require order in my life and in my mind to carry on. This is good to a point and creates a feeling of fulfillment when all is caught up. But when things pile up on me, it feels so overwhelming.

I knew that when I took on this 'book' project, it would take a lot of time. I think once I actually get moving forward and beyond the information-gathering phase it will become fun (and it actually is a lot of fun right now). Right now I just have too many directions my mind is going. I'm collecting more pictures and miscellaneous stuff than I can use immediately so I have future projects "B" and "C" in mind. Too much information!!!!

In the meantime, I was disappointed in myself because I didn't create a 'quiet place in my mind' to fully appreciate my company on Sunday. The visit was still wonderful but I felt that the chaos in my mind was evident to my guests and that wasn't the aura I wanted to create.

The housekeeping of my mind continues and I should putter away at a few more things before the lunch-time busyness sets in.

This afternoon, I am meeting a potential new family to babysit and I feel that my mind is in a good place for that. I feel like I can 'sell myself' (whereas yesterday, I'm sure I was in a sell-myself-short kind of mode).

Out of Words

I think my brain has overloaded its circuits. I am out of words. I'm sure they will return tomorrow.

A Labor of Love

I spent the evening in the kitchen preparing for company tomorrow. I sang, I sliced and diced, I sang, I chopped and pared, I sang, I mixed and whipped, I danced a little ... baked a little ... just had fun!!! If I can slice and dice this video together, I'll pass along my edition of 'Fun in the Kitchen'.

The thoughts of a fun visit tomorrow has truly made this a labor of love.

(I did turn off the video before I started practising a few dances ... cha cha, samba, mambo ... Oh what fun I have in the privacy of my kitchen!!).

A Perfect End to a Week!

Dance night!! What a perfect day to have a dance lesson. I am so very, very glad that I have returned. I had planned on being a lot more devoted to dancing and practicing and 'thinking dancing' between lessons ... but I seem to have taken on a bit of a 'life' that has me distracted throughout the week. But I am so glad that I have this lesson to look forward to on Fridays.

As usual, I simply can't say enough about my dance instructor. He makes me feel like I can dance and I'm so excited that when I seem to be able accomplish something. He enhances my self esteem like no one else does .... It is simply enjoyable. And I am relaxed enough to learn a little along the way.

Yes!!! I want to dance .....

Technical Difficulties

I ran into a 'bump in the road' yesterday. A computer program that I ordered through Ebay arrived. Not what I ordered. Used (I ordered a new program). No instructions. And the one part of the program that I needed to work was deleted or missing or corrupted. It put a kink in my day that somehow I didn't recover from ...

Life's frustrations. We are faced with them every day yet sometimes they throw you. And other times you rise above.

The fact that I let it get to me, put a negative spin on the rest of the day. The kids were noisy, the dynamics between a few were frustrating, one parent was 15 minutes late; another was
1 and a 1/2 hours late. It was one of those days.

Today is a new one. And I'm certain it will be better. I must go and shovel snow this morning, when I'd rather be sitting here drinking a second cup of coffee and playing around with my writing projects. Oh well ... I'll see what inspirations and words come to me as I get outside and surrounded by Mother Natures latest creation....