Blogging can be meditation

 I know that meditation is done to calm the mind and give you control. Well, in many ways blogging does that for me. My mind is full of stuff, all kinds of stuff, and blogging helps me sort it out. It also helps me dig into things when I need to. Today it's going to help me figure out what I need to accomplish today.  I've spent the last two days kind of working on things and kind of not. Yesterday I fell asleep on the couch twice. Yeah, that doesn't need to happen. So here I am trying to prioritze the things I want to get done. 

So first up is the art work. I need to glue the large koi and that is proving to be a bit of a problem. The thin wenge pieces, 1/16", are curling when I glue them. I think that I'm going to have to use the super glue and the acclerator so that they glue immediately and don't have a chance to curl. Getting that glued is going to take some time so that will probably be most of my morning. 

I also need to edge the smaller pieces, oh and finish gluing the smaller koi. For the smaller koi I have to make a jig since the koi get placed on top of the backing. So I have to cut a jig on my laser. Which leads to the other things I have/want to cut on my laser. I want to make some of the smaller ornaments, they sold at the last show. But I have to have a way to organize them. I don't want to cut one piece at a time. I want to cut multiple pieces out of a sheet of wood, but I need to keep them organized. I guess it wouldn't be that hard to figure them out. I think that is just an excuse. 

I have the background cut for another raven on a pumpkin, I think I will make another one of those. I'm thinking about making a couple more of the round mirrors. Now, do I have enough wood for all that? I don't know. I do have a lot of wood so I think I might. I think I can use up a lot of the pieces I have that just have a bit left on them. Oh, that should be my goal. Make as many as possible without buying any more wood. Nice......

I also want to do some cleaning and laundry today. See, I have a lot to do and I need to figure out how to prioritze it. That is always where I get hung up - what to do first. So let's do that. 

First - Get the laundry going. That can run while I do other things and I can switch it over whenever. 

Second - work in the garage. Even though temps are down, it still gets too hot in there in the afternoons so I need to work in there in the mornings. 

Third - cut the ornaments. Those can run in the afternoons when it's too hot to work in the garage. They can actually be glued in the house too as they are small enough. Maybe I'll use 3M on them so I don't have to glue them at all. 3M is nice, but honestly I'm not a huge fan of it. It's hard to work with, you have to be so careful if your piece is a little larger, and you waste a lot because you cover the whole back and then cut it out. Glueing is annoying and tedious, but I think it's worth it in the long run. 

Finally - the house cleaning. That can be done at any time I'm not doing any of the above. I don't have to spend the day cleaning the house, I can do it in bits and pieces. So when I'm not working in the garage or cutting things, I can be cleaning the house. It needs a good deep cleaning. The thing is, each room won't take an hour. I can deep clean the entire kitchen in a little over an hour. Our master bath doesn't take an hour, it's not that big. So an hour here or an hour there is going to get things done. 

Okay, I think I've worked my way through my brain jam. I get caught up with all the things I want to get done that I develop paralysis. So many things to do and I can't seem to do any of them. I think I've got it worked out in my head now. I'll run the laundry as I go, work in the garage in the morning, work in the house when it gets too hot. Easy peasy, lemon squeezee. 

I'm off now.