Aug 10 2008
inchworm progress
Well it feels that way, but only because the projects I work on are so huge. We finished the second, much longer pass of the business models monstrosity gargantua paper, yay! Now we only have to follow up on all the tangents and make another complete pass through it before my mom comes down with flowchart and red pen in hand. In two weeks or less. Then another for the rest of the paper. Then we’ll be traveling, so better damn well be done. Argh, so much to finish before travel upsets the creative routine again! Wait, chill, panic is another post.
I’ve got about 2.5 more things to catch up on at the shop, which is good improvement there as well. And not falling to pieces more than a few times a week, which is an improvement from 1+ times daily. And, hmm…ah, the maid service thing for the house was totally some of the best money we have chosen to spend to help our family out. Really, any of you families out there that don’t just totally bond lovingly over housework and can save enough pennies for should look into it, at least to help with the deep cleaning and little tidying details that daily life often makes difficult to keep up with. We have them over twice a month, and it’s quite affordable especially when you calculate the time it would take for us to do the same amount of work.
This week I’ve gotten the dining room to a state of completeness lacking only the tabletop and bookshelf organization to be done. My room is down to one bookshelf’s amount of boxes to unpack, (plus laundry to put away) and we hung all the large pictures in the main room (and I’m a third of the way through re-hanging Steve’s book-cover pictures so they look better) so that room is done except for any small finishing touches we think to add.
There’s still so very much to do, but that’s for another post as well. This post is about taking the time to appreciate the minutia of progress.
*tap, tap, twitch*
Okay, enough of that for now, back to work!
PS - I rolled a 1 last night and actually talked about my novel with Kit. That’s a short step away from writing on it, so should be considered good progress as well.
Talking about your novel was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed brainstorming with you on it again, and I hope we get to do more to encourage you to write, soon.
I know there’s been a lot of satisfaction combined with frustration lately for me — so much accomplished, so much to go. We’ve made so much progress on the collaborative project yet its so huge. Our house is so much better than the duplex yet there’s so much undone. And so on…
I’m glad things are going better though. Let’s see what we can accomplish today!