There is something I must learn how to do and the way to do it is to sit with the thick binder that contains everything I need to know in order to learn how to do what I need to do, and study it. This is a project I've been putting off for a couple of months now and you have already guessed the gist of what I'm about to write next, haven't you, invisible reader of this post, and that is, "Today is the last day I'm going to put it off." However, I am a realist and know that unless I die today, there will be plenty more of those last days, but I'm giving it a shot anyway.
I first went through emails before knuckling down to the business of the project.
Oh, dear, what's that smell like red peppers burning? It's the smell of water and red pepper juice burning in the bottom of the steamer because I forgot I was steaming them, and time went by and liquid ran out. "Let's deal with that later," myself told me.
Back to the emails: I came across one containing a list of names that pertain to the project I've been putting off, a list that was well worth printing right then and there. The printer tray had only a few sheets of paper in it and what better time than the present to add more.
Last year I converted a simple cardboard box I got from Berkeley Bowl, one that once held 12 bottles of expensive Francis F. Coppola wine, into the model of printing paper-holding effiency you see here (look for my foster kitten Josefina in the background; she's available for adoption).
It gets plenty of use and has gotten shabby
over time so why not spruce it up as long as I'm taking care of business?
I went to the hold-everything box in which I keep scraps of cardboard for purposes such as this and realized the box could be easily organized to find things in it much faster if I put things in hanging file folders so I did just that, and once it was done I knew that tabs for the folders would complete the job. While looking for a calligraphic pen with which to write titles for the tabs, I saw clearly how to best make that printer paper-holding box work even better by gluing cardboard strips to the sides of the insides and that led me to an idea for a better container for the liquid white glue I'm always using so I got that project started, went back to cutting cardboard for the printer paper-holding box.
Things were moving smoothly so when I heard the voice whisper, "Be sure to vacuum out the printer paper-holding box before you glue the dust that's in it to the new cardboard you're adding", I had to write a note to myself about this because there were so many other things that absolutely had to be done and that I was afraid I'd forget. While scribbling it on a scrap of cardboard, it occurred to me that things were out of control. "No! No! Please not that, I can handle all of it, I always do! Please don't let me know I've forgotten the point of all this which was to let this be the last day I would not not start the project. I'll be okay if I just have a little something to eat."
Before I went to the kitchen, I vacuumed the box. Then I wanted to take pictures of it for this post because I knew I was write about distractions and wanted illustrations, but my digital camera had stopped working altogether a few days ago. I even looked at new ones at Best Buy yesterday but decided to shop around. I hate to say goodbye to my Olympus Camedia which weighs three-quarters of a pound and cost over $400 when I bought it in 2000. It's been a good friend. Could it be that all it needed was new batteries instead of the odds and ends of batteries I'm always feeding it? Yes. When I put in some batteries I've had since 2005, ones with bits of cellophane still clinging to them which means they've never been used, the Olympus came back to life!
Before anything else, I had to call my friend Julie who has a Costco card to ask if she bought her batteries there and if so, did she think she was saving money and if so, would she get some for me?
Then I took pictures.
I gathered the loose ends on the other projects, went to the kitchen, opened a can of sardines and ate them and started the rest of my lunch. While things were cooking I came back to the projects, tied up the gathered ends, went back to the kitchen and saw how beautiful lunch looked so I set up an arrangement of a beautiful abalone shell, Josefina at the sardine tin and my lunch and took this picture of it.
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