The theme for the year is "Completion" and February was ripe with it. The tax documents were compiled in a weekend in which much "avoidance cleaning" was completed. This is the cleaning or whatever mundane, not necessarily important or earth shattering task you do to AVOID doing what really, really must be done, but you just can't bring yourself to doing. Also known as mouse milking. You work like crazy but have very little to show for it. My AC activities were confined to cleaning the garage, moving boxes and bags to the attic that have stacked and waiting since the last garage sale, sorting through boxes of old financial files and SHREDDING. There is something very therapeutic about shredding. Two garbage cans full of stuff that has been stored, retrieved, reviewed and found to be unworthy of further storage. It's the physical act of feeding the papers through the machine, the sound and feel of the blades and knowing that even if you desperately need this information at a later time, IT IS DONE. Somehow the formal closure is comforting not to mention the ability to see the garage floor and to walk through this room where ("Mom...did you know that some people actually put their cars into that big junk room that we have on the end of our house") much can happen and projects can be finished. (see theme for the year)
Things finished in February (in no particular order)
•Taxes
•Machine quilt taken from the frame (last worked on in December)
•M-U-M website launched. http://home.comcast.net/~m-u-m/site/ A whooping 42 hits! That's more than 1 per day.
•First Retail t-shirt quilt order secured.
•Started invoice system for the year
•Sewing client's 5/6 projects finished. (last one slated for tonight and tomorrow)
•Actually ahead on hours worked at my graduate assistantship (will be used during the crazy month of April)
•PJ's for Kenzer and Kendall
•Embroidery completed on Cole's quilt top
•One box of crap fabric used and thrown away from garage
•Started photographing patterns for entry in database
•Gray desk cleaned off and usable in Garage
•Art counter cleaned off and ready for project finishing
•Front porch/entry cleaned
•Christmas decorations sorted, labeled and put in attic (didn't get done at all last year)
•Current with or actually a little ahead on school assignments
•Registered for TSI (trained sewing instructor) course in March in Ohio
•Black fuzzy hat knitted
•Purple shirt reworked and ready to sell
•Closet rod nearly empty of pending sewing jobs
•Helped James clean and organize his room (at his initiation)
•Hung shelf above library computer station
•Started reorganization/sort of library shelves
•Put away all of the groceries from Dorothy's basement
•Started first garage sale of the year box
•Attended Joey's first birthday party virtually through Skype.
•Had Kenzer or Kendall spend the night every week but one!
•Survived the lean times one more month
•Spontaneously visited a friend
•Made major head way on the clean/sort of dining room
•Attended an opera, ballet, concert, Oscar Wilder play, a webinar and two quilters meetings
•Had a more positive month than January....
Until next month...I hope winter is actually about over and that this drive to complete things continues.
