Red
You are doing a lot better in the pledge department than I am. I don't write them down, I just make them in my head. And I break them. I start out with grand intentions but a couple of days down the road I get side tracked. I may pledge to do the dishes as I use them and I can tell myself that now that home support is cut off I'll just do all the work they did. And I'll go outside each day. But then I'll get real excited about something I want to build. I'll tell my self "I'll just see if I have a nice piece of wood to use". So I go down into the shop and find a nice piece of wood with a nice contrasting grain. I just can't leave it there. I end up trimming it and mounting it on the Lathe. I've got one foot pointed upstairs and one pointed at the lathe and the lathe wins. Hours later I've roughed out something and it's starting to look like what I visualized. Now is the hard part. I have to drag myself away from it and do the dishes and think about food. I no longer keep peanut butter or bread in the house so I can't just shove a sandwich in my face and go back to the shop.
Woodwork has been a life saver when the panic was starting to build. It has been a great form of distraction but I think I will start to write my pledges down and stick to them before I get into a rut. The shop is not going any where, it will be there if I ever start to panic again. Today will be tough because it snowed so I don't want to go outside and I have a nearly finished lidded candy dish calling to me to sand it and put a finish on it to bring out the grain. I want to finish it because I have already picked out who I want to give it to.
So much to do and so little body to do it with.
My pledge? Well. Since I'm writing it I better keep it simple to start. (Oh God I caught myself using a negative word)
1: I will do the dishes as I use them.
2: I will go outside each day and drive to the store each second day weather permitting.
3: I will not go into my shop if there is something else needing to be done. (tough one)
4: I will not stay up to the wee hours on my computer. (another tough one)
I know already I am going to break some of these. Waffling is just another form of negativity. But I am going to try.
Davit.