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August 21, 2005
Getting Stuff Done
Fairly productive day today, especially considering I woke up with a completely immobile sacrum. So far I've managed to realign and loosen quite a bit of it (especially since Dave worked out some of the knots), but it's still pretty painful. I'm suspect it's because I spent a good chunk of yesterday sitting wrong, so all of my muscles let me know about it today.
Anyway, I'm trying to be a more productive human being, considering I currently have no outside the home claims on my time. So rather than putting things off because I didn't want to do them, I went ahead and did stuff. For instance, I reorganized one of the kitchen cupboards to fit our new drinking glasses. They're etched like the glasses we already have, but they're colored and they're much bigger, which was vital, since I need to get enough water, and I tend to not drink as much if I have to keep interrupting myself to refil my glass.
I also did some experimental things with the printer and sundry papers with various ink and watercolor treatments on them to see whether I liked the effect. I've got an idea for some new trading cards, but it's still pretty nebulous, so I tried a bunch of stuff to see whether anything made the misty images in my brain snap into focus. No such luck, but I've got a better idea about what I don't want. And I tried some things with weaving paper, but my ideas didn't work very well.
It's quite freeing to know that I don't have to feel bad about recycling a project if it doesn't work. The cards aren't particularly valuable, and I don't use enough of any particular resource that I feel I must peel it off and save it for later.
I spent the morning designing a bookcase/window seat for my office. I'm tired of having all my craft and gardening books on the floor, so I figured out how to get them all to fit in a bookcase in a way that may actually create some new storage space. And once I'd designed it, I pestered poor Dave until he bought the plywood and cut out the various pieces. It's s really simple, but also very unusual and useful in design.
And I put together a little back-to-school package for Dave, since he starts tomorrow. It's got folders for paperwork and an upright storage unit so he can keep school stuff separate from all his other work stuff, plus a teeny little notebook, some highlighters and page markers, and a book of short stories because that's all the outside reading he'll have time for.
I also spread manure around the cherry tree, the pagoda dogwood and the two crabapples that are in the lawn and I did a little weeding. I promised myself I didn't have to do everything in the yard, just a little bit of stuff, so it was easy to get that stuff done plus a little extra. Tackling the front beds is going to suck, but I need to continue to permit myself to just do a little bit at a time.
That's my new mantra: I don't have to do it all right now.
The one other thing I did today was begin reading No Plot? No Problem, by one of the guys who started NaNoWriMo. Because I'm really intrigued by the idea. So I say it here and now, and I'm going to need help with this, I fully plan to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Yes. I will be participating in NaNoWriMo 2005. Please don't try to stop me. I'm more than capable of doing that on my own.
It didn't seem like a particularly busy day until I catalogued my activities, but I actually did quite a lot. I can rest easy now, sleep the sleep of the just. I've earned it for once.
Posted by sally at August 21, 2005 07:33 PM
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