Goals, what's the point?

I just looked over the goals I have posted and realized that I have only accomplished one of them!!  Either I am setting the wrong goals or sitting on my butt too much.  One goal?  Really, I am not lazy...well, maybe a bit lazy but I do get things finished.

Didn't I clean my office?  Posted the picture of the before and after on facebook.  Boy, you should see it now.  Or not, looks like a bomb went off in there.  Partly the result of combining two studios into one at the Guild.  And the new studio looks and works really nice.  But still.

I sit here imagining that I can just get to it and finish off all of those goals THIS YEAR!!  That would be amazing!  That would make me feel great!  That would allow me to set brand new goals in the new year.  Maybe I can figure out how to make goal setting work for me, 'cause mostly when the day of reckoning comes I just change the date.

So, this week I am going to do these things:
     Firstly, get skis and boots tuned for both Kate and I
     Second, pick a bathroom and do those few little things to clear the list
     Third, help teach a class Thursday night
     Forth, well...three may be enough

And to be clear this week ends on Saturday night.  At which time I will reward myself with ?
     A glass of champagne
          or
     A steak dinner
         or
     A steak dinner, glass of champagne and a nice long tubby in the completed bathroom!
Guess that determines which bathroom is going to be finished.

A New Way To Get Wazzed

I found a new way to get Wazzed, TOTALLY Wazzed.
Just go to Kansas with CDG to deliver turkeys to the processing plant...36 hours without sleep, stinky clothes, and 20+ hours sitting in a truck as well as growling noises from said truck for the last couple of hours of driving home.

We made it though.  The turkeys have gone to meet their maker and lots of people will have wonderful, free range, compassionately raised turkeys for Thanksgiving. Check out Ambrosia Farms facebook page to see some of the turkeys and the 'turkherd'.  (That's a herder of turkeys - get it!)

The feeling is a bit like jet lag without the plane ride or sightseeing in Europe, not that Kansas was not great fun!

I'm pretty much stuck in the mud.

The flower bed is still not dry - except of course for the stuff I've already dig out.  It is like concrete.  I really don't know what to do.  Guess I'll keep at it and hope I get that sweet spot where the clay will break up.

I thought I could at least get the grass cut but no, the mower won't start.  Even with the magic spray and kicking it in a few stratigic places.  That just got me a hurt toe.

I DID get the iris I'd dug out a while ago divided.  I can take some to Bennett when I go this weekend.

Can't clean it or finish it.

Argh! I set a goal to get about five feet of flower garden cleaned out, seemed easy, quickly done and I would reward myself with a couple of new plants to go into that spot.  Good goal, great reward, I was excited.  I had the motivation to get after it.  And I went at it hard.

Two trash cans of quack grass roots and oh, about two feet finished and I ran into a serious setback - a wet setback.  For some reason that I haven't figured out yet, the ground is staying wet.  The wet ground is mostly clay (and quack grass roots) and is impossible to dig up and seperate from the weedy stuff.

I still don't have a plan of attack but I started by turning off all the water to the sprinkler system in the whole backyard.  Soon it should dry to just the right state that will allow me to dig and seperate.  That does happen with clay soil, you just have to wait for it.  Another case where timeing is everything.

If that time doesn't come or I miss it, I think I will just dig out all the bad, root infested dirt and put in new stuff.

Still Wazzed

Long time since I've posted to this blog and it is still here!  I am amazed!  I'd like to think that I fixed or finished a few more things but, alas, no.  I am actually even more behind.  Doing the hands really did a number on my activities and my motivation.  The motivation is starting to come back with less angst over the hands.  I still need to work carefully and not over do things but that is not reason I can't do things.  Just work mindfully, I tell myself, in all things.

The photo is of the okra growing is my garden.  That I have a garden this year is sort of amazing and that it looks as good as it does is due to my grandsons who weeded most of it.  Thanks Guys!

Fix It!

I just don't seem to be getting the idea that to 'fix' my hand is to take it easy, not do too much.  I strained a tendon in my arm on Monday - doing something I shouldn't have been doing - and am back to about square three or four.  I went so far as to sleep in my BIG brace last night and probably need to use it often this next week to rest the injury.  I feel that I am so far away from 'normal', I can't even imagine doing anything with clay.  I'm just hoping to be able to do some encaustics this week.  Clean the house - forget it! 
Though I am still thinking hard about having the second surgery (right hand) in April.  To that end, I am starting doing small things with my left hand, brush my teeth, operate the computer mouse, small things.

Testing the New Normal

I am supposed to be able to use my 'new' hand normally now so I tried cleaning the kitchen.  It was b.a.a.a.d.
And now my arm is BAD.  Seems like I pulled some tendons that were not use to being used.  How much is enough and how much is too much?  I sure don't know that yet. 
As of right now, normal is not normal.  "Must keep going slowly".  But I am frustrated, lots of sitting around and getting wider and more out of shape.  Guess I could to use a stationary bike and not use my hand.  Now there is a thought.