I’m really good at starting things. Reeeeally good. For example, I have a lot of really cool scrapbooking items. Great tools. Really cute papers and embellishments. But actually doing the scrapbook? I started one once. Knowing my “completion” block, I thought if I chose a really short period of time, a finite time, I’d actually do it. I chose my first pregnancy. Ten months. That’s it. It’s like 10 pages if you do a page a month. I think I made it to 1/2 way through the pregnancy. I loved doing it. I craved doing it. I am actually fairly good at it, if I do say so myself, but I. Just. Couldn’t. Do. It. Maybe if I had a room. And I could leave all the stuff out and just work on it a little at a time. Maybe if I sent my kids to daycare to support my creative project time. Maybe THEN it would get done.
But, knowing that those are not viable options, and knowing how I work, I have to accept that I am tamfastic (my daughter’s new exclamation) at starting things. And not so great at doing/finishing. And that is ok. And even knowing that, I am still starting this blog.
This blog will be about things that even I can make. Me, who has three crazy kids ages 1, 3, and 5. Me, who has a teeny house with no room to spare. Me, who has my own business from my house. Me, who also has another job that I do from home. Me, who totally knows how to follow directions, but can’t come up with most things on my own. If I can do these things, than surely those of you more sane and put together (you know, like you that actually brush your teeth and remember deodorant in the morning…which reminds me…I forgot deodorant this morning…) can probably do these things. And you may even like it! These are short projects, easy recipes, and the like that I find (or rarely, make up) and try. And if I like it, I’ll share it! Pretty simple.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you can nudge me if I don’t post often enough (as of this writing, my goal is a lofty Once A Week). I mean, who doesn’t want to post more when they are showered with comments?? It’s basically the reason I live on fb. Maybe THIS will generate comments!? Ok, maybe I’m not quite that bad, but hey, comments never hurt! (unless they’re thrown at me during political debates…yikes!)
Tags: blogging, finishing, scrapbooking, starting
October 20, 2009 at 4:50 pm |
Happy to be the first to wish you well in your blogging adventures. This is gonna be awesome!
October 21, 2009 at 12:11 pm |
yay! i wish i had the patience/time/follow through to do this. I wish you well, my friend.
October 21, 2009 at 8:04 pm |
I’m totally identifying with you. I started a blog once. I don’t even remember the address now. And I started a lovely cross-stitch project for hubby (’cause he loves gifts with a little heart in them) … for our wedding. Yes. Our wedding. Then his birthday. Then Christmas. Then our first anniversary … and our second … and now we approach Christmas and our third anniversary. I take said project on trips. Trips up and down the stairs. Trips to the in-laws. Trips in cars. And on planes. And still it sits, currently amidst unfinished filing and crosswords and other various items awaiting assignment to a rightful place in our home or in the trash … and waiting to be put there. My home is filled with unfinished projects. But just like a drama queen must make sure there is drama in her life lest she no longer know how to live, I subconsciously … well, now consciously … live life surrounded by unfinished projects lest I suddenly have nothing lying in wait and think, “Uh, oh! What now?” It’s like Tetris. One could maintain a decluttered board. Or one could let things pile up and get a rush from the craziness of trying to clear the board before it hits the top. If you are successful, there is a greater sense of accomplishment than if you just kept thing thing low in the first place. Unfortunately, I don’t always get the thing cleared and end up losing the game. Projects are always more fun in the beginning. The idea always more thrilling than the follow-through. My boss always said, “Make the plan. Work the plan.” I make the plan.
October 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm |
Jen…that is totally how I play tetris…the way where i let as much of it build then knock it all out! Hmm…interesting parallel!
October 27, 2009 at 1:02 pm |
“To begin is the most important part of any quest, and by far the most courageous.” -Plato
Here’s to us, the courageous ones!!
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