1. No matter how witty you want to be, when you start to type you'll forget everything

2. Lurching like a zombie is strangely more dignified than waddling like a lame duck

3. Minute taking makes my handwriting more irratic and illegible than usual

4. Despite having only emptied the books from the two bookshelves I'm now filling, they will still fill more space when being returned to them.

5. Even I can make my tea too hot to drink

That is all...

So I have two days in lieu of the weekend that I am working. That's tomorrow and Friday just so you know. I've decided (now that I'm healthy and full of random energy) to create a list of things I really need to do and see how far I get. I'm putting it up here for general amusement and the fact that I can't lose this page but never find that scrap of paper I wrote things on. So in no particular order...

( Cut for waffly length )

Right we'll see how far I get

I'm placing this here as I think it might be interesting for others to see what I use up my time on.
Plus without the list I'm sure I'll forget something.

In no particular order.

* Make herb pouch for my Larp herb bottles.
* Make teddy outfits for this weekend (I can't explain why, it's a Secret shhh...)
* Clean up craft room
* Phone Landlord about central heating inspection
* Sort Clean clothes mountain
* Start on Artie's scrapbook
* Print out info and send with cheque for artificer (Yes jenna_elise I should have done it last week but choccoweeble was having name issues.)
* Design bag for choccoweeble
* Work on remaking my armour for Maelstrom

Ok so technically my Monday hasn't been that manic just yet. But I still have the evening to come and I might just be really focused and get soem stuff done.

Inpired by midnightoak I've decided to make a ( list ). This mainly to have the satisfaction of crossing things off :D

In other news I am fed up of not taking my health seriously so I am going to see about joining Slimmers world. because I already know that I'm not motivated enough to get myself going on my own. Fortunately their method of food control is eat as much as you want of the healthy stuff so no actual dieting going on. To make it better I'm even walking there so I can feel a little more active and less like I rely on my car, should only take me 20 mins. The meeting is on Tuesday so more on that later in the week.

I've also organised to go play badminton on Wednesday which is something that I have seriously been missing. I do so enjoy the sport.

I had a rather random conversation with K last night about games we used to play as children in the playground. I really have no recollection of how we ended up on that topic, but we did. Two things should be noted about childhood games.

1. We all played them and there were lots of them, and No, some of them don't make sense.
2. Just because we recognise the names of each others games does not mean we share the same memory of the rules.

This is what I remember playing. Behind cuts as the explanations with make this long.

( What's the Time Mr Wolf> )

( Mother May I? )

( Crocodile, Crocodile, may I cross your golden river? )

( Stick in the Mud )

( Bulldog )

( British Bulldog )

( Scarlett Letter )

( Nuts, Bolts and Screws )

So do you have any games you used to play that I haven't listed? Or do you have alternate rules to ones that I have? If so I'm rather curious to hear them. :) I'm in a childish mood

So I have a live todo list that I carry around with me on my usb pen. Obviously I need a computer to read it but I know most of it by heart anyway.

However I have been adding new things to it recently and discovered an annoying fact. No matter how much free time I have, without motivation and much prodding I seriously can not muster the energy to do more than sit around. This seriously bugs me. Not just a little, it's a mountain full of bugs.

Why because I really want to do all the things on my list but faced with all of them and no deadlines I just stop.

Hmm so this evening I am going to see what I can get done by giving myself some deadlines for stuff that really should be done soon. Any bets on how well I will actually do?

p.s It should be noted I did finish Spoon on the night midnightoak bet me. I just wasn't fast enough for 7.

...Is something I have to try and do. That and offering gifts I haven't made yet.

I seem to be offering slices of my time that in truth I don't actually have, at least not in abundance. Unless I take drastic measures and turn hermit for a week.

It's hard to admit but yes I am sometimes too helpful for my own good. I offer my services without thinking how much time I actually have. This is not to say I don't enjoy each and every thing I do, it's just that I forget how fast I get swamped.

To give you an idea of how bad I can be, I offered a drawing as a present three years ago. It has yet to be painted. The miniature that I offered for someone's birthday has been modeled but no paint has come near it. Clothes for a soft toy, designed but not made (and I've had it a year).

Add to all this that I have agreed to make a kilt and a website for schaffhausen. The first was a learning experience in itself. But it should now be known that should anyone else need a kilt, it's not that tricky to make and I can make them to any size and cheaper than buying a real one. (It will also be quicker now I know how) You just need to decide how valuable you think my time is. ;)

The website will also increase my knowledge of website building so I am happy to do it especially as it is a project I have a stake in. Or rather a beak.

But all this is on top of the innummerable projects I set myself - some that I have not touched in ages but really want to finish.
So I ask those that know me, seriously, Save me from myself! ;)

EDIT: Alternatively actually prodding me and giving me deadlines works wonders - These have benefited from that - Maelstrom and The Fallen.