Too many projects

[mousme]

Drinks in Montreal are expensive. Strip clubs aimed at women are crazy, crazy places. I got to bed at 5am. Am very tired. Details at eleven.

I have too many projects. I love all my projects, but there simply isn't enough time for me to devote to any of them.

The rational part of my brain is telling me to pick one or two and stick with those until they're done properly. This would be the logical course of action. If I had to pick, it would be random_colour since there are many people involved and I'm really enjoying making music again, and my line dancing, because it rocks my world.

But there's also knitting, quilting, and the possibility of beading. The itch to write something, despite a complete lack of ideas about which to write. The desire to start gardening, or at least keeping plants. Fish! Fishing, too. Countless others that I can't think of offhand but that'll crop up when I think of them.

There's just too much, and the unreasonable part of my brain is throwing a temper tantrum like a three-year-old: "But I want to do it ALL!"

In other words: "Death by shinies... owie."

Comments

[swestrup]

I always wonder at the folks who say they wouldn't want to be immortal. They're so certain that they'd be bored in no time. I once worked out that I currently have about a 1000 year backlog of project ideas, and the list is still growing.

I'm not sure if eternity would be enough time to do all the things I want to do.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to be immortal. Sure, I have a backlog of projects that would take a long time too, but I think they'd lose their sense of urgency, for one, and given my talent for procrastination, there's a good chance I wouldn't get around to them.

Also, can you imagine having to plan the finances of being immortal? I mean, if you're not a god, living forever is a costly proposition. I have trouble planning for a month in advance, let alone a million years.

And what happens when the Earth destroys itself? Do you just float away? That would suck.

^_-

[mellybean71.livejournal.com]

You could garden here if you like. I could use the help and if we did a good job there's be enough to share. I have dreams of proper raised beds and lovely home-grown tomatoes.

I hear you on the over-doing. I'm in a similar boat.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

As for the gardening - the vegetable beds are going in this week; so within a few weeks time; whenever you have both the urge to garden and the time to spare, you can pop down into the back yard and do a bit of weeding :) For a share in the produce, of course (*shhh* no one tell her this is a sneaky way of dumping the masses of spare zucchini on someone.)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Death by shinies, indeed.

I have discovered that my ability to handle multiple hobbies has decreased the older I've become. I still have piles of things I'd like to do at some point in my life, but now I'm making a list in a little book and when I'm bored or restless or my current hobbies don't satisfy as they used to, I look through my list and choose something new to try. I also phase stuff out regularly by evaluating what's still challenging me at an appropriate level (which also means not too hard or frustrating, too time- or energy-consuming, or too expensive), and what's not doing it for me any more. My worst problem is I tend to discover scads of new stuff and once, and I have to winnow them down to which one I want to try first.

The good thing about a couple of those shinies you've listed is that you can pick them up and put them down again, like beading and quilting (so long as you clearly note where you are in each project, of course). And can I say I'm really glad you want to keep on with the music? It's a bit selfish, of course, but even so -- yay you.

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

Drinks are the number one way establishments make their profits, yeah. However, that said, it's probably cheap in a global sense... I'm sure other places where the living costs are higher that they inflate even more.

Strip clubs probably incite a certain amount of crazy behaviour. That said... details! :)