Practical and focused! That's up there with 'eternal youth and beauty'. Izzie is just a sad zombie wannabee. Done sweet bugger all over the last two months in spite of having all that spare time freed up from unproductive activities such as paid work. But today it has rained just a teenie weenie bit so maybe sanity and motivation will be restored. As for the trimmed down list - did post it way back in May last year but it got put on hold to attend to toadish dramas
And yesss - that infamous tarot deck has returned along with the nano squiggles. Specifically to win November and Camp Nano five times between now and May 2015 and to actually produce three finished novels out of the huge stash of words. These finished books can also include stuff from old nano adventures.
But it is funny. The minute you are approaching the completion of any big hairy scary audacious goal, it is a damned good idea to conjure up another one or else a big crash landing will soon be in sight. A bit like the NASA astronauts, what do you do after you've been to the moon?
While the last list was a total fail, paying off the Lair was one of those once in a lifetime events. It's had the very fortunate consequence of now having more disposable income on the dole than for most of those years working where house payments were more than 70% of take home pay. But then again the point of those ridiculously high payments was to arrive at the big zero sooner rather than later. It also meant being able to live off savings for 3 months while having no income at all and still being able to feast on all those freakish fringe goodies
But it does mean that the motivation to look for a job is not quite as high as it should be ;) Necessity is the mother of creativity
These days many folks are in their sixties and still paying off their houses. They even retire with a mortgage and rely on lump sum payments from superannuation to wipe out the outstanding debt. Quite a few folks have not quite worked out that a credit card is not a second bank account
So now the next big project is to turn the crazy cluttered chaos of the Lair into some semblance of order and organization! There's some serious tossing of stuff been going on. The trick picked up of focusing on the sort of space that you would like to live in rather than the awfulness of the one you actually have is surprisingly powerful as it takes a lot of power away from all that stuff. If something does not fit in with the image of the 'ideal writing room' then it's got to go.
For the first time in over a year can actually see the surface of the dining room table in its entirety!. Keeping it that way will be a bit trickier.
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But today it has rained just a teenie weenie bit so maybe sanity and motivation will be restored. As for the trimmed down list - did post it way back in May last year but it got put on hold to attend to toadish dramas
And yesss - that infamous tarot deck has returned along with the nano squiggles. Specifically to win November and Camp Nano five times between now and May 2015 and to actually produce three finished novels out of the huge stash of words. These finished books can also include stuff from old nano adventures.
But it is funny. The minute you are approaching the completion of any big hairy scary audacious goal, it is a damned good idea to conjure up another one or else a big crash landing will soon be in sight. A bit like the NASA astronauts, what do you do after you've been to the moon?
While the last list was a total fail, paying off the Lair was one of those once in a lifetime events. It's had the very fortunate consequence of now having more disposable income on the dole than for most of those years working where house payments were more than 70% of take home pay. But then again the point of those ridiculously high payments was to arrive at the big zero sooner rather than later. It also meant being able to live off savings for 3 months while having no income at all and still being able to feast on all those freakish fringe goodies
But it does mean that the motivation to look for a job is not quite as high as it should be ;) Necessity is the mother of creativity
These days many folks are in their sixties and still paying off their houses. They even retire with a mortgage and rely on lump sum payments from superannuation to wipe out the outstanding debt. Quite a few folks have not quite worked out that a credit card is not a second bank account
So now the next big project is to turn the crazy cluttered chaos of the Lair into some semblance of order and organization! There's some serious tossing of stuff been going on. The trick picked up of focusing on the sort of space that you would like to live in rather than the awfulness of the one you actually have is surprisingly powerful as it takes a lot of power away from all that stuff. If something does not fit in with the image of the 'ideal writing room' then it's got to go.
For the first time in over a year can actually see the surface of the dining room table in its entirety!. Keeping it that way will be a bit trickier.