pro.duc.tiv.ity

productivity was the name of the game today. i didn't intentionally name it that, it just happened.

 

start the day: 6:30 am.

yes, it is my day off. yes, i still got up at 6:30. i have an amazingly accurate and mostly helpful internal alarm clock. i always have. you can ask my parents. sometimes i do wish i could turn it off but today it was a great thing.

 

first things first, look at the list of things i made to do on my day off and see what could be knocked off the list first.

 

- fix rain boots. the heel came unattached after wearing them twice and they have been sitting unused for a year and half. with some shoe glue and some weights i marked that off before 7am. 

 

- update my travel journal. i would prefer to write in it while i am actually traveling, but sometimes i would rather enjoy the adventure. 2 trips to OH and the recent excursion to TN and AL are now documented.

 

- write a note to a friend. check.

 

- clean up craft closet. this could have put a wrench in the whole list. but it was actually rather quick and efficient. i was done with that before 9am!

 

i'm such a weirdo to be excited about doing things so early in the morning.

 

- next up, organize my desk. which led to under the bed, which led to the closet, which led to the extra closet. which led to me thinking i have too much stuff. so i got rid of some of it.

 

- post office. somewhere in the closet organization i paused to run to the post office to mail 2 packages.

 

- and the last thing before lunch was to sew a pillowcase for a friend.

 

- then pause, eat some lunch. unpause, back to productivity day 2013.

 

- make a hemp bracelet per the request of a bracelet owner that has a bracelet on it's last string.

 

- finish a book. any book i'm currently reading would do. i chose the shortest one. Help. Thanks. Wow. by Anne Lamott. it was good. thought provoking.

 

- and then i added some things to the list. sweep the floor, do the dishes, straighten the common areas. take out the trash.

 

- and last on the list: workout. and at 2:20 i took a nice stroll around camp for my daily activity since yesterday i did a real butt kicking workout. and that stroll led me around the lake to see the look up waterfall flowing strong after 3 days of rain.

 

i think my overly productive morning and afternoon were well worth catching the waterfall at its finest and relaxing and enjoying some good company this evening.

hooray for a productive day! i have needed to do some of the things i did today for weeks. i am so pleased to have them done.