January 6, 2006

• Marco, Anne & Jon’s
  pitbull, is snoring on the bed next to my desk.  He’s visiting us
  while they are skiing in the mountains of California.  It’s been
  fun having a house dog – exactly like having a two-year-old in the
  house again. 

  We’ve finally hit the January lull.  And a blessed lull it
  is.  I’ve got a bunch of projects I’d love to work on but things
  seem to keep popping up.  Just an indication that I’m not very
  good at living by objectives.  Yup, I guess I’m just basically a
  responder.  Here are a few of the things on my list if I ever do
  get around to them:

  1.  Take all the completed rugs off my loom.  Means I have to
  get it set up for rewinding warp and that’s a big job.  So I have
  to save this one for a day when I’m feeling very energetic or else just
  dive in in a moment of lunacy.  Plus it’s cold out in the loom
  room at this time of year…

  2.  Finish piecing the squares for a quilt I started for Joel last
  year.  Then sew them together.  Then quilt the whole
  thing.  Good to do while there are some good old movies on TCM.

  3.  Work at typing on to the computer more letters that I wrote
  during our years in Germany.  I wrote to the families weekly for
  10 years.  Lots of letters but they give a picture of our life
  there and are full of anecdotes about the kids.  Would like to
  preserve them as a record for each of the kids. 

  4.  Go to the church library and process about 3 big boxes of
  books that have been donated.  This means catalog, put in cards,
  pockets and shelf numbers, enter into database and then shelf the
  books.  Looking for someone to replace me as church librarian but
  no prospects in sight…

  Does it strike you that most of the projects I do are painfully tedious???
  

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