Who do you become when you have time to?

[flexagon]

Everyone seems to be doing home improvement projects this long weekend (miyyu, a_kosmos and nevers, I'm looking at you). We've done just one thing... I went to Home Depot and got us a 36" by 60" mirror, which is now mounted in our hallway. It was just the right size of project -- shopping and installation and cutting the box up for recycling was all done in one afternoon, and it's a very visible improvement. We feel all efficacious now.

That's the tip of the productivity iceberg, but guess what I haven't been doing? Getting rid of stuff. The minimalist voices in my head are quiet. I've listed out the items that I still own, in moderate detail, and thought of a couple of things I'd like to get rid of, but nothing is super annoying anymore. It's nearing the end of Stage One.

My interest in knitting has reawakened after a long dormancy, and I've been doing development on my side project too. I become so much more myself after a couple of days off work, if I get to stay at home.

Comments

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I spent a lot of today freaking out about strategic planning in a less-than-productive way.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

OHHH... so if cutting up the box for recycling is considered PART OF the project, then it actually gets done instead of the box malingering?

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

I'm on the list, too- I painted my office and stripped the floor. That is also the room where the internet lives, so I've been offline most of the weekend. :-)

[soong.livejournal.com]

I got into new project mode this weekend. Given time and not needing to earn dollars for shelter clothing and sustenance, I think I would be pretty creative, creating a lot of things, maybe half fun toys and half useful and maybe 5% conventionally profitable.