So today is limb and brush clearing day at the property. It is going to be a glorious day weather wise. We are renting a wood chipper and my brilliant husband has figured out how you rent equipment like this. You rent a half day on Saturday afternoon and because they are closed on Sunday, you get a day and a half for the price of a half of a day. So smart! That is how we roll!
We will be getting it this afternoon so that means I gotta get my act together to get everything done this morning before I head over. I better make a list of things I need to accomplish or this morning will be gone before I know it. Planning is my friend. Even though my version of planning is really more like a framework and not a step by step do this at this time type of plan. I have tried the calendar thing. It hasn’t really worked for me in my business. It kinda works for me at my day job “real” work but not completely.
What works is a deadline. What works is doing a little every day. I don’t like to be rushed at the end and I do best in short sprints so that tends to work best for me. I really like to have the big calendar, meaning the entire month or even year, to be sketched in. When I have that framework, I guess they are deadlines of a sort, I can relax AND produce in my spurts. Of course, as the deadline nears, I will do more sprints in a day or week. But I don’t mind that. It still isn’t a marathon.
That is how this blog is coming together. I only really have time to work on it on the weekends, aside from the writing, which I am now doing every day, like it or not, whether I have some brilliance or not. Some good will come out of it as I get back to writing and blow out some of the cobwebs and start using my writing muscle again. A lot of it is pure shit. And that is okay. I expect that now! I also know it will get better and I am gonna share most of it anyway. Because maybe even if the writing isn’t so great, something within it will help someone.
This weekend I will not have as much time as I have had the last few, when I have been immersing myself in learning CSS and building out the website – customizing the theme is a more accurate description of what I am working on. I have to get myself in the right mindset because doing this work at the house is just as much what it is all about than doing the website. It also MOVES US FORWARD toward this thing we are building! What the heck? That is exciting, even if it seems somewhat surreal and perhaps not even true. We have had so many starts and stops, I guess I am getting numb to it.
Big thing today, though. Last night my hubby told me that our contractor had called yesterday and wanted to stop by to talk about getting started. What?!!! That is awesome news! And a bit scary/premature. We still don’t have all of the bids. We just got the initial architectural drawings two days ago, and they are not right. Our architect is out of town this weekend (of course) and can’t meet until next weekend, so it will likely be a couple of weeks before we get the next revision. We have got to go through it carefully to make all the changes on this first request for revision. If we miss something or are not clear, there goes a few more weeks and it will be Christmas.
And meeting with the contractor to discuss actually starting makes it that much more real. Once we do, there is no going back. It is a gut job. Once the old is gone, there is only forward.