the bottom of the pile

The bottom of the pile of artworks is in my sights.

I still have about 100 to 150 artwork photos on my camera, but I will process these all together and knowing it will be my last batch.

I am impressed with how much the blog can fit in ... although I am having a lot of trouble positioning my captions beside the pictures.

Perhaps in the end I won't worry about captions so much and just let the picture tell the story.

Yesterday I sorted through Kt's school awards and schoolwork and organized them into a few folders ... I wonder if she will notice if I secrete them amongst her books in her bookshelf LOL!

She has been pretty accepting of the fact that most of her stuff has ended up in her room, either in clear plastic boxes under her bed, or in the form of art supplies in her new desk, or in her wardrobe.

Most of the available space in there is taken up ... but it is all with her stuff and it is all relatively accessible and tidy.

steadily we plough

I am making progress on the computer room clearing, finishing my box of memories last night.

Over the years I have been accumulating DVD's, photo CD's etc of our own and some that others have given us.

I now have them all in a big bright blue box ... wedding videos, wedding photos, wedding placecards, wedding invitations, photos from kt's year at kindy on cd, bellydancing video on DVD etc.

I also have other odds and ends that I want to remember in here in a small flip photo album. These are things like ticket stubs from movies or theatre shows, clippings from newspapers etc.

The next stage in sorting things out is to continue with Kt's artworks ... such a daunting task when you look at the pile of them!

I look at it, have no idea where to start and instantly USED TO jump on the computer and head to farmtown or farmville.

Now I prefer to use something else more productive like sweeping the kitchen floor or cleaning the bathroom basin or doing a load of washing ... or LOL writing a blog entry :-D. Now you know what I have been up to this morning :-P

I just have to remember to break up my big unmanageable jobs into much smaller doable parts. It is so easy to do in theory and once I get started there is no stopping me ... but starting is difficult.

I also need to make space for the cupboard arriving on Tuesday ... another daunting task.

I will be playing musical boxes, with my stuff for the next week ... moving things from one room to the next to make room and then rearrange and make room elsewhere...

Ok time to stop procrastinating now ....

reluctance

I am half way through packing my keyboard away and I am fighting such strong feelings of reluctance and resistance.

I am not sure if it is only to do with the piano (my desire to play since childhood)and the fact that me putting it out of reach, shelving it, is also shelving my plans to learn to play.

I have had it ready for use any time I want it for at least 3 years without having touched it so I don't completely understand where this feeling is coming from.

It is accessible (with a bit of work) if I really want to get it out and play it again as will all the things that I find new "homes" for.

I guess maybe I am resisting the removal of my/our computer/study/hobbies room.

Or maybe like with everything I just can't help procrastinating.

I read in one of the blogs I follow that a lot of people procrastinate because they are afraid of not doing things perfectly ... so they don't start things.

I wonder if there is an element of that to some of my procrastination. I don't necessarily think perfection is what I seek, but I do always want to try and do things "the right way" and often I have no idea what the right way is.

The blogs answer to this challenge was to just do it, done not quite perfectly (or in my case not quite right)is better than never started or never attempted or not done.

I like the idea of this. Just wonder if I can put it into practise.

I was planning to sew uni a heat pack and have been putting off starting because I am worried about the look of the finished product.

Hoping I will be able to start it this week.

Another truth about me is that once I do actually start something (although I have started many things and not finished ... ) usually I am gripped by a strong urge to get it done ... as long as I don't start something else more gripping in the meantime.

LOL!!!

OK feeling better about the keyboard now ... and the rest of my rearranging ... I have got the christmas things out of the cupboard which temporarily make it look like I have plenty of space in there to put things into.

Am thinking that Christmas stuff no longer deserves prime placement in the upstairs so it will have to find a new dog proof home downstairs after Xmas this year.

I have also looked up and discovered that we have a lot more (out of reach places) than I am currently using that could take assorted chemicals and cleaners etc that were placed on high shelves when Kt was a baby, but are now sitting virtually untouched taking up prime real estate ...

Sorting out KT's room

Yesterday KT was with her Grandma going into the powerhouse to see the Tashi theatre show, after sleeping there overnight.

Uni and I woke up early ... courtesy of the dog, and went for a morning walk around the extended block.

Then we got a call from the courier company to say that they would be arriving with KT's new wardrobe in about half an hour.

We had rearranged the loungeroom already to make room for the moving guys so I had a quick breakfast and was just finishing cleaning my teeth as they arrived.

I showed them where I wanted the wardrobe and they brought it in. We ended up having to move an old moon shaped night light of KT's and her clock and calendar. The moon light was firmly stuck to the wall with blutac and I ended up taking off half the wall surface when I pulled it off.

I wish I had just said to the guys to leave the wardrobe where it was ... we weren't 100% decided where the wardrobe was to go and I just panicked under pressure of the movers being there.

Once they left we looked at where the wardrobe was and immediately decided it had to go elsewhere ...

What followed was a full reshuffle of KT's room with every large bit of furniture except her bed, being moved at least once.

Whenever something got moved ... six years worth of accumulated dust and dirt and assorted other bits and pieces had to be vacuumed or relocated.

By the time we had done 3 of the corners of KT's room I decided I may as well move the bed and get in under there too.

Needless to say by the end of the day I was very sneezy.

I went through several vileda dusting cloths!!!!

The end result of our rearranging was really good, both of us were very happy with it. We even shifted a very small table and a chair into KT's room so she could sit there and play her piano or perhaps do some drawing.

We intend to buy her a desk of her own in the very near future so the little table will "hold its place" temporarily.

When KT returned she really liked her room, wardrobe etc, although she did send us out of it several times during the night .. I think she was re-establishing her ownership of it!!!

The rest of the house is all over the place at the moment as we rearrange everything and decide where it will all go.

I was completely exhausted after the day's activity and after having cooked a lemon chicken and rice dish for dinner was falling asleep on my feet.

I settled down to watch the final of the amazing race and then went straight to bed.