Don’t faint. Yes, it’s two entries in two days!

Am I back on a consistent basis? Hard to say, let’s just say I’m here for now.

I think that my problem with writing is two fold. First, I’m an Aries, and that means that I’m prone to starting a project and then losing interest quickly.

Although, I don’t know that I’ve really lost interest. I think it’s more that I’ve been in a funk and haven’t been able to bring myself to write anything at all. I haven’t written in my paper journal either. It’s all I can do to crank out the reports and ed plans that I need to do for work.

The second part of my problem is my abstract random style.

I’ve been taking a course about differentiated instruction that is being offered by my school system. It’s quite interesting, though nothing new. It just sort of jogs the memory and brings back things that I’ve forgotten. It’s a lot of what we learned years ago, just reordered and given a new name.

Anyways, part of this has been learning about learning styles. There are several measures to figure out learning styles and we used the Gregoric, which has classified me as abstract random.

In a big way.

And it’s true.

It also means that I rarely approach anything in an organized fashion and that I’m all over the place with projects that need to be finished.

This is so true.

I can’t even clean my apartment in any kind of a methodical fashion. I’ll start with one thing, run across something that belongs somewhere else, take it to that spot, then get distracted by something that I find there.

It even drives me crazy, and I totally know what I am doing as I am doing it. But I don’t seem to be able to break out of that rut.

Now things do get done, but I’m sure they could be done in a far more efficient manner that would take a lot less time.

Yesterday was a perfect example. I planned to clean the bedroom, then make some more Christmas cards, then make some ornaments.

I barely got the room done.

I start going through drawers, reorganizing and tossing. I create a huge mess, and it takes me forever to get that straightened out. I watch myself doing it, I yell as myself for doing it, and still I persist.

I wish I could be like the concrete sequential people of the world. They are always neat, have a plan, and follow it through. Their lives are ordered and neat as a pin.

I want to be neat as a pin some day.

And that means every aspect of my life.

It ain’t gonna happen.

I think I just have TOO MANY things that I want to do. Too many schemes and ideas, and I just want to get it all done right away. So I get distracted and start something new and interesting.

For example, today I had to finish several of my Christmas cards and the matching pins. So instead I made ornaments.

These ornaments are really lovely, but they take a lot more work than I thought they would. To make them I have to stamp on tissue, heat set the ink, cut out the image, insert it inside the clear glass ornament which has been coated with clear varnish, then pour glitter into the ornament.

Sounds simple enough, but it’s inserting the images that’s a pain. They have to be inserted individually and have a tendency to curl up or get glued in the wrong spot.

It’s frustrating, but the end product is really nice.

Meanwhile I have to finish making the cards and pins. Which is what I should be doing now.