Chipping In Away

Had a surprise fairly early on Saturday morning, the pool folks came on over and chipped out the plaster in our pool. 

As previously mentioned, there is no real schedule for getting our pool re-done other than ... "we'll show up when we show up and it'll get done when it gets done"... though I should give them credit for actually admitting to that upfront... so really we have no complaints.

But anyhow, here is the current state of our swimming pool:

Attractive, eh? 

Looking at this kind of makes it hard to believe that it'll get back to being an attractive pool again... or something better than we started with!   

I am kind of glad that it was done on a Saturday... since it was about 4-5 hours of jackhammering about 5 feet from my "office" window... though I am sure our neighbors were thrilled with the 8 a.m. wake-up call (though no complaints)...

(Begin segue... to actual purpose of this post)

Granted it would have not been that much of a problem to stay out of the office since work has been pretty slow of late... for all purposes, I pretty much had last week off. 

Oddly enough today is my 6 year anniversary of self-employment... but so far in 2006, things have been pretty on/off... not a really steady flow of work. Now this is something that is normally not complain-able, but it is driving me a bit nuts.   

The problem is that extended "time off" causes that lack of motivation and/or momentum to spill over pretty much everywhere else.  I have a hard time mustering up the energy to be productive in (any) other areas... the only thing I have truly been committed to, enjoyed, or felt a sense of accomplshment in the last couple of work weeks is walking Toby...

With no urgency or a need to fit/schedule things around work, procrastination sets in... there is plenty I could do... but it can be done this afternoon, then tomorrow, then later in the week... so it's a whole mental viscious cycle... why aren't you doing anything, I don't feel like doing anything, you really should do something, I can do it later...  lather. rinse. repeat.

So I am looking forward to our Hawaii trip (only 18 days to go!)... most people head off on vacation to relax and get away from work... oddly enough, I am looking forward to doing something, getting away from non-working... or at least being someplace where "doing nothing" is a goal or achievement.

Vacations rejuvenate, but I am hoping this one will provide me with a jump-start...  something to shake me out of this "phase"... I know there is some work lurking on the horizon... and my guess is that it will hit right before we go away (as it always seems to do!)...  so we'll see, I probably just jinxed myself.

Comments

[Gail]

ARGGGH! That happens to me all the time. I look forward to a stretch of unstructured time so I can work on all of those projects that I never have time for. I somehow manage to let all that time slip by because I just don't feel like doing anything except (oops!) web surfing. Maybe you needed the downtime; and just think how fit Toby will be.