Secret of Motivation

Some people suggest that the secret to getting motivated to get something done is to have a deadline. That can work, but an even more effective one, is to have something you want to do even less. Suddenly, the previous mountain doesn't seem so high, so to speak. This may explain the times I've ironed (which I hate).
My work life abounded with corroboration. If it weren't for disagreeable jobs, nothing would have gotten done at all!

bereft!

My desktop computer is at the computer doctors. Long overdue visit, but do I ever feel deprived! All I'm getting done is having my hard drive copied to my new (well, it was new in March) external drive, and my dvd burner and player cleaned/fixed/upgraded. I hope I get it back on Monday. Using my laptop at my desk feels odd.
i suppose the big question is: will I ever get around to rebuilding my home system? There is so much gunk in it, I'm ashamed. but I love it :-)

done today

The most exciting thing I did today (other than convincing my son to vacuum, make fruit salad, and sweep out the garage on his day off) was to carve 2 rubber stamps. I'm working on a serendipity piece, and an image of a birds nest stuck in my head. Since I don't have a stamp with the image I wanted, I made two of them, one 2 1/2" across, the other 1 1/4". I used the "graphite pencil on an image" transfer method, and it worked a treat. Of course, the resulting stamps don't resemble the original image, but that's the charm of hand-carved. Of course, the piece is not done yet, but that's also part of the charm. Let it evolve!

Day 1

There's a peculiar activity I do that seems to take up most of my time. No I don't mean sleeping. It's called "cleaning my desk". Since my computer is there, & when I sit there I am surrounded by art supplies, that's where most stuff that needs to be handled gets put.
There's a peculiar dialog that plays in my head when I'm there, that goes like this. "Today I'd like to make art, but first I have to clean up my desk. *picks random object* Why is this here? Where does this go? What do I have to do so that I can put this where it belongs?" and I'm off to the races. At the end of the day, I get a lot of stuff done, amazingly enough have usually made some art and even more amazingly, have an amazing feeling of satisfaction from getting stuff done.
But oddly, there's also usually a lot of stuff on my desk. new stuff. I'll deal with it tomorrow.