On the 23rd, Melissa from the Best Nest published Losing Track | 100 Days Until 2015.
On the 22nd of September, there were only 100 days left in the year?! WHAT?!
(By the time I finish and publish this post there will probably be about 90)
I can see the days getting longer, I can feel the temperatures getting warmer, I know Daylight Savings starts this weekend – and I am so freaking happy about it that its ridiculous – but I can’t see the light at the end of my To Do List. And things just keep getting added to it.
Now normally I am cool with this. I am very very good at managing my time and tasks – usually. Just lately though, I’ve lost my mojo. Or my mojo has been on a winter vacation and is flipping me the bird telling me its not coming home just yet.
And in true Tara form … the countdown clock tells me that today is now 93 days away from the end of the year. Above I wrote 90 days, I’m bloody close.
I’m set to finish this post off today as I am at home, in my pajamas, nursing a throat of razor blades and a sniffly nose and an aching body. Earlier in the year I was celebrating 0 colds – I had had nothing! Not even a sneeze. And now I am laid out again. Sucks.
And I think its all my own fault.
Our Whole 30 started in January and it went swimmingly – in fact, it was bloody awesome. But we’ve left sugary treats creep in, and camp out and I just feel like stinky old socks. And I think that’s where the colds and the like are coming from. I also think its where the lack of motivation and all around good feelings have gone – they have gone in to my tummy with the chocolate and the copious amounts of beer. So I HAVE to put my foot down.
I want my feel good self back. I want my motivation and my confidence back.
I want to clean up the lists I write myself, I need to finish all the jobs that I start.
I want the head space to say no to myself sometimes and I want to put a little money away for a dive trip. Ocean I miss you.
I’d really like to rewind to the beginning of the year (for more than just one reason) but we all know that shit ain’t gonna happen. So, to exit 2014 in absolute style, in better shape (not just physically) than when I entered it;
1. Food: You’ll get no argument from Ken or myself that we feel better when we are eating properly. We both love snacking but we are just being lazy at the moment. These sugary foods are a vicious cycle – of high blood sugars, empty tummies and lethargy. We’re good at cooking, we just need to get back into the preparation cycle. And to finish planting out the vegetable garden. I planted some broccoli a while ago – holy crap they take forever to grow and they take up a mountain of space. As soon as those little puppies are ready, I can claim their patch back for something worthwhile. I also planted a little kitchen garden out on the side deck – with some herbs and some strawberries. The coriander is going great guns! The basil – not so much. Can’t wait for it to be tomato time.
2. Dollars: I just can’t seem to save a single cent right now. Sure we’ve had big power bills (damn you winter) and mechanics bills but it all just goes. I’m forever saying I have to stop spending but now its getting real – I want to go on a dive trip, a big tropical island dive trip, so I have to put some dollars away.
3. Around Here: We have a garage that is full of stuff. It is bursting at the seams and I don’t think either of us know what is actually in there. It is basically unusable – except to hide more (small) stuff in – and to keep whatever crap is in there now all dry. There’s a dog [puppy] crate in the living room that looks ridiculous and the kids bedrooms could do with a little more styling. Yes I know I said I have to save some money so number 3 has got to link in with number 2. But still, not spending money doesn’t mean I have to live with a house full of junk!
4. The Fun Job: I have to say, I am loving my Photography at the moment but I am not loving my workflow. I created this [at the time] awesome great chart to help me through from session start to finish .. only I have found that I don’t use most of it. Back to the drawing board on that one, or at least the redesign board. Almost half the things I think I need to do can be stripped out. And I need to make more time to just get out there and make the photographs I want. Its so easy to get caught up in Facebook this, blog that, put this on Instagram … none of that really matters! My mini Social Media plan says Facebook for session previews (1 image on the day), blog for session diaries (5 images a couple of weeks after) and my Instagram is my own personal diary. That’s it. No dates, no specific content other than those three points above. Living it Bright – living it light.
But there is one thing that is freaking me out a little more – it is 59 days until the 28th of November. My 40th birthday. Shit!
So the last thing on the list …
5. Have a bloody Birthday Party.
END. OF. LIST.
And there goes my big mind dump post. In return for getting all the way to the end, here are some photographs of my strawberries and my herbs. Including the one that isn’t growing all that well.
