I keep trying to find a better way to keep in touch with my connections. I am not very consistent. I decided to just get emails from my connections, but even then I soon found myself a few thousand emails behind. As you well know it is time consuming to read articles and make comments. Checking out peoples images is much easier. Once again I decided to go back to my connections list. I am going to start going through my list one page at a time. If I do a couple of pages a day then at the very least I should get around to each connection once a week. One always gets distracted by following rabbit trails .That is where you read a someone's comment and then decide to go see what else this person has said or written. Or you decide to check out a group or two that the article is published to and end joining the groups .Then you have to find you way back to the list again .
I have to admit I get easily side tracked. There are more distractions than just Gather. I end up the local news a few times a day. I am usually chatting with a couple people at any given time on MSN messenger. Then there are all things offline. My telephone rings a few times a day. My paper work. I have had pictures that have needed to be sent out to family members for weeks now.
I still am battling the sciatic nerve problem. Just when I am sitting for five minutes without any pain, and am thinking maybe things are better. Wham I stand up and pain strikes. That sure gets me down.
I look around the room and I see stacks of books that need to be catalogued and labeled and put on the shelf. Leaving them in a stack results in forgetfulness. This past week I discovered that I had re-ordered not one book, but four books that I already have.That felt like wasted money to me. I seldom give books away as gifts; I usually lend my books to family and friends. I considered shipping some back as I still had the boxes and receipts. However it cost about half the price of the book just for postage. So they will sit here until I figure what do with them- I thinking the local library can always use a donation.
If I go to the next room, I sink even further in despair. My sewing room is still a disaster area despite my resolve early in November to whip it into shape. None of the projects on my list are completed. The clock is ticking down. The aprons I am sewing for my daughter's birthday present are now ten days over due. I have plans to finish a quilt and give her it for a wedding gift. The way it looks now she will be lucky to get it for her 1st anniversary.
Gosh ,I keep thinking that I am glad when this long winter is past. However it occurs to me that spring here is usually filled more with wind and rain and grey skies than sunshine and warmth.
I think it is time I got a few more hours sleep. I sound like I am sliding down the slippery slope of depression, once there even the thought of accomplishing any of my goals is halted. Perhaps some sleep will clear the fog and confusion and I will come back refreshed. Hopefully I can come up with a reasonable plan of action. Number one on that list is figuring how to enlist some support from my friends.
Have a good day everyone!
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Good luck to you.
I hope your back pain eases. Have you been to a chiropractor? I just started going about 1 month ago and he has done wonders. I couldn't stand longer than 10 minutes without my back seizing up and being in horrific pain.
Hope you're able to get more rest and find time to do the things that you would like to be able to get done. Perhaps you can organize some friends or family members to help you with the quilt for your daughter. I know the ladies in our church try to get together and work on a quilt for couples getting married and it becomes a shared effort. Of course the ones who know how to quilt and are skilled are the ones who do most of the work, but the rest of us go and do try to do our best at stitching and helping.