Daily check-in for my goals. Food and exercise, check and check. PMA, dragging a bit.
The final stretch on the tiling is really tough. Every single tile needs to be cut and fit. The saw shot what seemed like a handful of tile dust in my eye yesterday, so it was squinty, painful, cyclops tile setting. Not perfect, but I'm no longer fearing blindness this morning. Four more nasty tiles to go before moving on to grout land. I'm frustrated by the "everything always takes longer" law of nature.
Goal #3 is to pay attention to this and find some helpful mantras to keep me moving through it.
Maybe I should start with my all purpose home improvement motto: "Well, it'll be a lot better than it was." It's actually looking pretty good at this point. I think I avoided any loud imperfections that will grab they eye. Relative to the relentless non-squareness of the old house, my work looks more exact than it is. Big relief. I can see that it's going to look okay.
Maybe another mantra about one step at a time. Just keep moving forward. Focus on what's immediately in front of me and not the overwhelming size of the task.
Rather than be discouraged about what's dragging, I can focus on being proud of myself for all that is getting accomplished. Like, I'm getting rid of excess stuff via recycle and craigslist. (Someone just called about something. Yay!) And I'm learning Spanish, listening to CD's, amusing the neighbors as I recite Spanish phrases while on my bike rides.
I will continue to do what I can and it will be good enough.
