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It looks like today's list is easily going to topple into tomorrow. The big items are: putting the wall furnace back together, getting glass cut for the window pane I popped out last week, and gathering what I need to repair a large piece of dry wall. The weather is handy; I can weed during breaks in the rain. Oh! And I HAVE to unload the car today. It's full of boxes, guitars, paint supplies, and I don't know what all. I have to get in at least one hour over There, and I can't do it unless I have space to load up the car.
Looking at a day with so many different items to juggle is a bit daunting. I'm pushing my multi-tasking abilities to their limits right now. I can feel my brain chemistry starting to sweat. But I like the work. I even, heaven help me, like being pushed to the edge of reasonable. Once I started enjoying the challenges instead of cowering from them, the view from the cliffs of insanity became much more interesting. After all, what's the worst that can happen? As long as I have my wits and my hands, all the rest is do-able.
What I don't like is having to turn down two invitations for fun. I was invited to a night of Wii games and dinner, and a birthday party. These are such wonderful people! I wish I could go, but they are in the area for awhile, so there should be other opportunities to see them. I might try try to bob by the birthday party because it is Long Beach. Luckily, this is a big group of people, so I don't have to feel obligated to go (no fear of being whined at for not attending; there will be plenty of fun people there, and my presence is not required).
It seems to be birthday season! There's something else I need to stick on my list: I still have three birthday cards to stick in the mail, and Dad's birthday is Monday. One of my shiny-est friend's birthday was early this month. I still owe her a birthday breakfast at Surfas. We got together on Thursday to go to a movie, and then met up with other folk to have dinner. I was so very, very happy to see them.
I am trying desperately to keep my social stuff down to no more than two a week. For awhile, that was pretty easy. But it seems the more stuff I have to do that might be considered stressful, the more opportunities I am getting to be with fun people. It is so wonderful to be invited to things! That only makes it even harder to turn them down. There is a group that goes hiking every Sunday. I have wanted to go hiking for years, and some of the places they are going are spots I've had on a list to visit for quite sometime, but Sunday is the day I really start rolling on the houses. I like having this much responsibility, I like doing as much as I can for the people I love, but I can't help wishing I had time to go hiking.
Now I have a heater to go put back together, and while typing this I thought of eight other things I need to do today/tomorrow including buying guitar strings (maybe I can do that on the way to the birthday party tonight)