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skating on the edge
Oct. 15th, 2014 04:21 pm I think I've been pushing things too hard. I can't point at exactly where I can ease off, because everything I'm doing feels like the bare minimum at best to achieve All The Things I want to achieve this year.
And it is a 'simple' list: pass my unit, preferably with good grades; spend enough time with my family; facilitate the publication of several papers at work - they all have to go in, just a matter of what gets done when; get the house tidy enough by the summer holiday that we can start dealing with the mess in the garage; not let my seedlings die (with a bonus 'eat stuff from the garden this year'); finish all the baby quilts/blankets for all the babies being born this year!
It doesn't include other things that I'd really like to be doing - spend more time on friends (email, on the phone, in person); play more music (get violin and viola back to at least fifth grade standard, although that is a longer term goal; get recorder up to say sixth in terms of knowing all the scales and arpeggios then find a teacher; work through the book of piano tunes that was this years goal; actually learn the guitar and clarinet rather than just having them as decorative items; spend some time with a flute teacher to see how to differentiate the playing of it from skills learnt on the recorder); go kayaking up and down the river; start cycling real distances again; do all the physio exercises to try and get my shoulder, hip and knee working properly; finish bits of renovations; get a whole stack of computer related Stuff sorted out (ooh, like getting all my pdfs in to endnote, so that I don't have to go search for them, and finish the transition from old filing system to new filing system that happened when the dropbox connection failed, and I ended up with old dropbox and new dropbox); finish *any one* of the stories in my head/WIP folder. Finish enough books that my too read pile (and half read) stops looking like a complete disaster.
I suspect that I should go cold turkey on a set of things I do online. Except that I do them not so much to fill in time, but because I've come to associate them with winding down to sleep, and if I don't get that bit of quiet time to settle my brain, I don't sleep well. And yes, I could read books, except that I have trouble focusing on them late at night, so I end up on line later, and then it takes longer to get through the routine.
*whinge*
And it is a 'simple' list: pass my unit, preferably with good grades; spend enough time with my family; facilitate the publication of several papers at work - they all have to go in, just a matter of what gets done when; get the house tidy enough by the summer holiday that we can start dealing with the mess in the garage; not let my seedlings die (with a bonus 'eat stuff from the garden this year'); finish all the baby quilts/blankets for all the babies being born this year!
It doesn't include other things that I'd really like to be doing - spend more time on friends (email, on the phone, in person); play more music (get violin and viola back to at least fifth grade standard, although that is a longer term goal; get recorder up to say sixth in terms of knowing all the scales and arpeggios then find a teacher; work through the book of piano tunes that was this years goal; actually learn the guitar and clarinet rather than just having them as decorative items; spend some time with a flute teacher to see how to differentiate the playing of it from skills learnt on the recorder); go kayaking up and down the river; start cycling real distances again; do all the physio exercises to try and get my shoulder, hip and knee working properly; finish bits of renovations; get a whole stack of computer related Stuff sorted out (ooh, like getting all my pdfs in to endnote, so that I don't have to go search for them, and finish the transition from old filing system to new filing system that happened when the dropbox connection failed, and I ended up with old dropbox and new dropbox); finish *any one* of the stories in my head/WIP folder. Finish enough books that my too read pile (and half read) stops looking like a complete disaster.
I suspect that I should go cold turkey on a set of things I do online. Except that I do them not so much to fill in time, but because I've come to associate them with winding down to sleep, and if I don't get that bit of quiet time to settle my brain, I don't sleep well. And yes, I could read books, except that I have trouble focusing on them late at night, so I end up on line later, and then it takes longer to get through the routine.
*whinge*
