There sometimes comes a point in life when you start to think about where you are, what your life is and where your life is going. Lately I have been in one of those introspective moods. I don’t have the answers. I don’t know how to ‘do it all’ but I know I have to make some changes because otherwise I will remain stagnant! Stagnant is not thriving at this thing called life.
I have so many ideas. Plans flow freely. I have so many grand plans! I start things. But then life happens. I’m tired of unfinished projects! It is time to knock some off those things off the pile and finally finish them.
Canal Boat Cats - Years ago, like 20 years ago I wrote a kids book. It kinda started as a whim but then a few people read it and encouraged me to actually do something with it. One big supporter of this idea was a friend of my mom’s who was a third grade teacher. Every time she saw me she asked me if I had done anything yet. Yet I haven’t done anything. My biggest hold up? It’s not illustrated and I am so not an artist! I tried to play a bit with doing something on canva…but I don’t know!
Lessons Learned - years ago (when I was at my lowest weight I started to write a book about lessons I’ve learned about weight loss. It is probably 90% written. I stopped working on it heavily when I gained weight. (But frequently reread and edit). I feel like I have to lose the weight before I can do something with that. Maybe that’s just my fear talking though.
Tales from the Scales- a collection of often hysterically crazy (seriously, I toasted a mouse), sometimes times victorious, and frequently embarrassing stories about my adventures losing weight.
Digitizing pictures- I was working heavily on digitizing my family pictures. I got sidetracked when my computer started acting funky and it was just more annoying to use my computer! It eventually died and I recently got a new one! So I am back on that project! I think I still have a few boxes of pictures at my parent’s house….so a ways to go! The scanning of the pictures though isn’t bad except that my office looks like a photography studio blew up scattering pictures everywhere! :-) Scanning is a mindless task, so I do it while at my desk during the day.
Speaking of my family. I also took on the task of organizing mom’s recipes. We found hundreds recipes throughout the house! I have plans to put them in book form…so that is in the works. That one is in my head though….for the moment! The recipes however are digitized! (Well there is a pile of recipes that I’ve looked through and can say definitively that mom never made them!)
The Lone Star Quilt- I started a lone star quilt a while back. I am hand piecing it. It’s more time consuming to hand piece, but easier because I can have work on it anywhere. I don’t have to have a sewing machine out. It just works better for my life. However about two years ago we got a puppy. And my quilt had to be temporarily put away . Yup, it’s still away!
I grabbed dad’s ties with grand plans to turn them into a quilt. So I have a bin of ties. Hmmmmmm
So many plans. Too little time! Yes, time is an issue!! But I want to clean up some of these projects. Even that lessons learned. I want it finished even if I never publish it! I want the projects finished. They are hanging over my head. I don’t know that I would say I’m overwhelmed, I’m excited about the projects. I’m just overwhelmed with the lack of time to complete them! And I’m making a vow…when I get caught up, it will be one project at a time!!! (I’ve said this before though!)
No matter what happens with these projects, I need to strive and push forward! Sitting back and saying there is not enough time to finish anything has gotten me nowhere! It’s time to move forward!
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