Last Saturday, I slept until 11am and got nothing else done. That was okay. But this week my to-do lists are weighing heavier and heavier on my shoulders. I'm sinking...DROWNING...
So this Saturday I'm kicking into high gear, pencil out, ready to start scratching things off and burning the lists. Heck, I'm so pumped, I didn't even wait until today. I skipped job #2 yesterday and got started early. This feeling doesn't come around that often (for the mundane little details that start filling in space on my lists...those things that don't have deadlines and so keep getting shuffled from one list to the next until I feel that if I have to write them one more time I'm going to SCREAM...) so I have to take advantage of it when it hits. I had been trying to decide whether to drive to Florence for the high school football game - the band got to dress in their costumes - or go to a friend's Halloween party/bonfire. I was leaning toward the party, but Tom came home wiped out and went to bed. So I just kept working on my list...
I was so energized, I even tried watching Matewan again last night (I need to return it to Netflix before they send a cop around,) armed with a big bowl of popcorn to keep me awake. But...once the popcorn was gone, that foggy feeling hit me and I gave up.
This morning I feel revved up again about attacking the list. It helped that Kendall had to be up early to take the SAT Math Subject test. Now it's not even 10 am and my list is already considerably shorter. Some of these things don't really take very long to do...it's the getting started part that's tough for me.
Today is it, though. Looking at the calendar, it will be awhile before I have another big chunk of empty, unscheduled time. Tonight I get to go with Kendall's History Club on the Austin Ghost Tour! I'm SO excited about that! I love history...especially odd, personal history that I'm sure we'll hear about tonight. Maybe even something I can use in my screenplay.
Tomorrow morning I'll be back downtown bright and early for the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure - a VERY good cause, but I wish it wasn't so early in the morning. I hate missing church.
Then, fingers crossed, back downtown AGAIN in the afternoon for the Texas Book Festival.
Next weekend is another History Club field trip to Houston for the Renaissance Festival, and, I'm hoping, a visit to my parents (just us, not the whole History Club. My parents aren't THAT old!) Then the next weekend is Kendall's CAYSA tournament - two full days of soccer. Then Thanksgiving, Tommy's birthday, Christmas, New Years's...WHOA, SLOW DOWN! I'm not ready for 2009. I still have too much to do in 2008.
I guess I better get started...
