unfinished projects
Unfinished projects make me crazy. And my life is full of them. Even when I went to a psychic she was able to see all my crazy unfinished projects. I think I just get bored doing one thing, and I go onto the next. Jeff is the same way. Especially with his video games. He never finishes a game before he goes onto the next. Ugh!
So, tonight I am going to make a list of unfinished projects in no particular order, just to see how much crap I do have going on at the same time, and hopefully one day I'll be able to scratch off the list something I finished.
Favorite places. My websites are out of control as usual. Since the beginning of my internet love affair this has been a problem. My problem is I favorite place many sites I go to, in hopes that I will return. Which rarely ever happens. I only frequent about a dozen sites, and I have over 600 favorite places. What really needs to happen is I need organize them as I go. I need to organize the old ones, but the key is to organize as you go. I've started over several times, but they always seem to get out of hand. And I need to be stingy with my favorite places also. And really think about it BEFORE I favorite place it.
Computer files. In general, there is no organization to my files, they are all over the place. It’s a big project in itself.
Computer CD's. Wow, another big problem. I go through them organize them, get bored, put them all back in a box. I have old computer games I will never use again. I have old programs I will never use again. Gotta love technology, it pretty much forces you to upgrade, not only your computers, but your computer software. If I had unlimited hard drive and unlimited time I could keep them all, but it’s silly.
Pictures. Ahh, my love affair with pictures. They are my passion. I love looking at the past. I’ve inherited all my Great Aunts pictures and all my mother’s pictures. And I have millions of my own. I have doubles that I don’t need. I have pictures of people I don’t even know. WHY? Because I just can’t part with them. I’ve tried organizing them by person, by year, by event. I try and get them in albums. And then I get bored with the project and put them all back in the box. If I had a whole album of one person would it get boring to look at. Is it better to go by year? Who knows. I just wish I could scrapbook them all, but that would take tons of time and tons of money in scrapbook supplies. If they could only make it to albums, that would be the best plan of action. So that they don’t get bent, damaged, etc. And looking at organized pictures in albums is so much nicer. You would think someone who treasures pictures so much would be more organized. I am very good with my kids pictures. I have albums going for them. I put all Jessica’s pictures in her albums and Jon’s pics in his. Then I have left over pics of other people I take pictures of. What to do with those? I even order two pics if I have taken a pic of the kids together, so they each have one. I am crazy. And I only put in their album, just them, or them with someone. Oh well, one day before I die, I want this organized. And again, it’s best to do it as you go along, so it doesn’t get overwhelming. I hope at least one of my kids has a love affair of pictures and will appreciate all the time and money I spend in photography. I also am trying to stay organized with my digital pictures. That’s a whole new set of problems. I’ve started putting them by year, that helps. There are so many, ugh!! I’m going to run out of hard drive. Do I trust CD/DVD backups? Do I trust online backups?
Music. I really hope to get this all organized before I get my IPOD for Christmas. But I really doubt that will happen. I have like 40 gigs of music on my hard drive. Stuff I’ve downloaded from Shareza, got from friends, some of my own cd’s, you name it. Again I am stumped at which method I should use. By group, by genre, by year? I started off by putting them by decade, because I made decade cd’s. Then I put them by group, so if I wanted to find a certain song I could. But that’s never ending, some people I just have one song from them, so do I make a folder of just them??? I really need to back up my organized music, what if my computer goes boom!?!?!? Same deal with my music CD’s. There is no organization to them at all.
Papers/Jokes. I am a paper collector. It seems like I am always going through a paper pile and getting rid of something. Tons, stuff I print off line, stuff I’ll look at later, yeah right. I have some joke folders going on, when I was really into jokes. I just wish they were more organized so if I am looking for something I can find it. And why print more jokes, when I have no idea if I have printed them already.
Clutter. I could go on an on with this subject. I’ll just throw a bunch of things in this category. I watch the show clean house and get motivated to do something. I have so much STUFF. Who the heck has time to do it all. My top priority for my leisure time is the computer. So I’ve started going through all my board games, and I’m going to try and sell them. I’ve gone through puzzles also. With small kids we are never going to have time to build the puzzles, and they are too little to join in, all they’ll do is lose all our pieces now. I’ve got a million VHS tapes too. Why did I start this collection, who knows. Will I ever watch these movies again, probably not. If I were going to watch a movie, I’d like to see one I haven’t seen before. The sad thing of it all is, you have to sell this stuff for ¼ of what you paid for it. But you just can’t look at it that way. Just like all these toys floating around my house, the kids grow out of it faster than anything.
I try so hard to be organized, but it never happens, 95% of the time. Organization is not my strong point, and it involves everything on my list, if I could just be organized I could finish these projects. By the sounds of it, it sounds like I am so organized. I am always going through a closet or box. But nothing every gets 100% done, and what I end up doing is moving stuff from one place to another. And it doesn’t stay organized long, ugh!
So those are a few things that are on the top of my brain right now. Something I’ve been trying to do for years. Will these projects ever get finished? Who knows. I wish that the simple task of typing this up could get them off my brain, but they always are on my brain. My problem is I just don’t know where to begin. And like I said I get bored with stuff quickly. I get side tracked easily.