Productive days!

Getting back into my sewing cycle has helped my mood quite a bit. I had a couple of productive days and that has helped so much. I have this huge stack of "almost" finished things for the kids. Almost everyone has at least something cut out and so there is only a little bit of planning left to do.

Feeling tired and pushing at the same time, sometimes it doesn't work as well as I would like. My hands hurt and it is too cold to get outside for my walks.

A couple more Christmas decorations put up, the house is looking somewhere between festive and cluttered. I'm not sure how to make room for the rest of the bins to be unpacked, but we'll see.

And thinking about how to re arrange my schedule next year so that I don't run into the same problems again. I keep saying that I need to start in January, and maybe just once I will. with the adults. Now wouldn't that be a nice change!

catching up is hard to do

I'm not sure why it is that the only thing that makes me feel whole is my work, and yet I will do anything to delay getting to work. I've done quite a bit of decluttering and cleaning again this week, but my list of sewing projects is still huge and not going away at all.

removing one social contact and rearranging another has left me feeling sad and not really wanting to do much at all. the changes that life throws at us are often not as in our control as we'd like them to be

but then again, our reactions to them are totally in our control. i keep saying that i need to take better control of my life, and while i have made some great strides in that direction, i think more that i need to decide where it is that i want to be and, as a matter of fact, who i want to be.

a friend of mine on facebook posted a link to this "be happy" slide show, which ended with me subscribing to yet another self help email. the difference is, this one asks me right from the beginning "how engaged are you".

i guess that is a good question. how engaged am i? for the most part, i still feel like i am watching the parade go by, instead of marching in the parade. i need to learn to march. or at least ride a float!

goals goals and more goals!

i looked at my "to do" calendar today, and discovered that the end of september was the last time i got all of my to do's turned into ta da's. that is a long time to be behind.

now of course the question is, how do i catch up.

first, i am delaying the projects that i have no hope of finishing before christmas, no matter how hard i try.
and then delaying the projects that are not "due" before christmas

that leaves me with 26 projects. due this week or before.
so with a goal of 4 per day, the list would shrink dramatically before my next check in next monday.

and how many did i get done today? well, lucky for me, the day is not over.
except for button holes, two are done. three more are almost done.

i think sewing instead of writing and watching tv would be Such a good idea

off and running!