Well, in my mind, I'm going home.
I have been making a mental list of things that need doing and that should be done and that I want to do, quite a while now. I want to clean all the window blinds and wash the windows and clean out some drawers and cabinets. I have a quilt to sew that's all cut out and some gourd crafting ideas that I need to write down so I don't forget them.
I just stop writing this long enough to make a drawing of the gourd I want to make. Now I feel better.
And I'm thinking about making some bagels and some black bread. I have an idea to improve my recipe that I need to try out. Anybody want to eat the experiments?
There are plants that need pruning in the yard and tomatoes picked. I want to work on the n, n, n, novel. And there are a couple of other ideas I want to follow upon in the short story category. I want to get out my cookbooks and make a list of dinners to make that I haven't done in a long time. I have writing to organize and put into notebooks and I would love to go to the office supply store and check out some new kinds of paper and find myself some India ink.
My husband keeps telling me I should be signing my gourds when I make them, and nothing will work for that but some good old-fashioned Indian ink. And just yesterday I was browsing the Internet looking for a cute picture to try and draw. I've been learning to draw for some time now, but I find that I need to feel relaxed and settled, centered and not rushed in order to do a proper job.
That's quite a list of things to do. And it is by no means all of the things on my mind. It all meanders around in my head at spare moments such as these. I’m in between projects, waiting for instructions from someone who needs help, but she's having lunch at the moment.
I spent the morning looking up records and writing down certain bits of information from the intranet. It made the morning fly by to be so fully occupied. Now if I can just get another equally as absorbing task in the afternoon, we will be in good shape.
It's a long time until August 15 and even longer if they decide to extend the job, till I can get to all this stuff. I wonder how deep and how wide my mental pile of projects will be by then ?