Productivity

Productivity is the bane of my existence.  Some days, I can be uber productive, getting things done right and left.  Sunday was one of those days.  I got up early and ran another 5k, beat my last time by 3 minutes!  I think I probably could have done even better but the hills on the course were kicking my butt!  However, I did end up placing 55th in my age group, which is a heck of a lot better than dead last (thank goodness I'm 26 now).  Then, after watching my sister finish the 10 mile run,  I went to church, went to a meeting, turned in paperwork so that I can work at the church daycare, and then later that day, went to bell rehearsal and ran choir rehearsal!  See, productive!

So if some days, I am uber productive, conversely, some days I am not.  Monday, I laid in bed most of the day.  I wasn't sick.  I wasn't that sore.  I just didn't want to do anything.  I may have let my medication lapse a little (don't be mad, John!), so, getting back to it has helped a lot.

Today, I got up and had Dad help me put my bed frame together.  I haven't slept on a bed with a frame in probably 3 years.  It looks a little more grown-up being actually above the floor.  Then we had Papa Pancakes, and afterwards Dad and I got some things at the hardware store to finish up projects.  I worked around the house a little, and then took a whole bunch of stuff to the thrift store and the library to be donated.

I've really been trying to downsize the amount of stuff I own.  I went through my closet and got rid of a couple of skirts and some shirts and dresses.  I went through my boxes of books and pulled out a lot to go to the public library.  I've even made a resolution to not buy any more fabric until I've gone through my stash to be sure I don't have something that would work.  I'd like to be down to a manageable amount of fabric by the time I'm ready to move into my apartment.

Oh yeah, not sure if I've talked about this yet, but I've decided that while I'm saving up for my tiny house, and finishing school here, I'm going to move back into the apartment complex that I lived in 4 years ago.  The complex had a lot of two bedroom apartments, and they decided to split the two bedrooms into two studios.  So, one side has the two bedrooms and they turned one into the kitchen, and the other side has the kitchen and living room (and the fireplace).  I lived on the bedroom side before and it was designed very awkwardly, but still do-able.  I'd much rather have the fireplace, though!



On a different topic, my mom and I talked about why she was pushing me so hard to get a job, and not get a tiny house.  She says that she's concerned that I'll be wasting my musical talent if I don't stay in one place all the time (that's not really how she said it, but that's kinda what I got from it).  I guess I'm kind of concerned about that, too.  Not that I won't have music in my life, but that I'll have spent so much money on under grad and then graduate school and I won't do anything with my degrees.  On the other hand, it's so stressful for me to think about staying in one place forever, and schools don't tend to hire people who move every other year.

Since this is the semester of searching, I guess this is just something else I'll have to ponder.