Change is like a glacier...it moves slowly! Here we are halfway through June already and I am still working on the same projects as I was in January.
The book of my wife's poetry is almost complete, but it has been moving forward in fits and starts. A few pages get in here and there, then weeks go by before I get around to adding more. My best strategy so far has been to assign Maddie to add in some of Sharon's poems as an assignment for her schoolwork. Sharon was a good poet and this way Maddie gets to see some of her work. At this point, I think Maddie, Ashleigh and I may be the only people to ever read the book, so it is a labor of love to put all of the poems together as a book. While Sharon was lying in a coma in the hospital, I made four promises to her. Trying to publish her poems was one of them. I didn't forget babe, sometimes things just take longer to do than I thought. Another project that is taking a while to complete is the cleaning out of my garage and basement. I have made some progress in the garage over the past three weeks, but there is still a long way to go! Last week, Maddie and I brought six Tupperware containers full of items to the flea market to sell. We sold what we could, and then dropped the remaining things off at the good will box afterward. We got rid of two plastic garbage bags of shoes, another garbage bag of stuffed animals, and four and a half containers of clothes. We brought back one and a half containers of things that were looked at a lot, but didn't sell. We figured that since they attracted people's eye, we would use them for bait next week! Even after removing all of that stuff, we still have a long way to go before the garage will be cleared out. Already this week I have gotten five more containers ready to go to the flea market, and it barely looks like I have touched the garage. I also have another bag of stuffed animals and another bag of shoes ready to go as well. I think it will take about five trips to the flea market before we even make a dent in all the junk! And that's even before we get started on the stuff in the basement. At the moment, those are the two big projects I am focused on. Writing on this blog every day is working out great. I think the girls actually enjoy writing things every day, as do I. We have added a categories bar at the side of the site to make it easier to find posts on the many different topics we cover. In general, life is looking up! I continue to train in the martial arts and I work out at home sporadically. I'd like to say that I work out every day, but life keeps me busy, and so far, a few times a week has been the best that I have managed. Working out every day takes dedication and time. So far, both of those factors have been battling me. I am not ready to give up on working out every day as a goal, though, so I will keep trying! To finish up, change is slow. But I have time. My house isn't going anywhere. And neither am I. The garage will get done this year, and so will the book of poetry. I have an urge to put down some decorative rock outside my office door to make the yard look nicer, but so far, that's just an urge. If I bring that on as a project, it means that I will likely not finish up the garage. It is harder to focus when you have too many things pulling at you. For now, the rocks will remain a thing to think about. Getting the junk out of my garage is where the glacier is moving right now.
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