Update on Things to do
This one is dedicated to those of you who write lists and have trouble not thinking of the success of the day as dependent on how many things you checked off.
For that "5 things" blog, I hardly got anything done on that list. I thought that writing that may make some of you feel a little better. Here's the run down:
What are 5 things on your to-do list today (not in any particular order)?
1. Get pictures to upload to blogger or complain about it enough for someone else to figure out my problem.
I actually did this, but it just magically worked one time when I tried it. So no complaining was needed (not that I didn't try).
2. Write and start filming a new video.
This has been difficult. Joe and I have very different visions for what to do, and it's frustrated me so much that I often lose any will to try making one. We did play a game where we made up a bedtime story. First Joe was alone with the camera and recorded the beginning of a story for 1 minute, and when the timer went off he wrote down the last sentence as well as three clues. I read the 3 clues and sentence, and then continued for another minute. I wrote down the last sentence and three clues and we switched. We ended up with 6 segments making up very possibly the worst bedtime story ever (okay, excluding the ones where someone dies - no one died in ours). When watched the whole thing together and cracked up. I don't know if I'll post it - it's really, really, REALLY dumb, but maybe some of you who know us would like to laugh at us. So I'll count this one as done, too.
3. Paint bamboo for our wall.
Totally didn't happen. We have EVERYTHING we need for this project, but it just sits there. I'm going to have a dream tonight where I read a spell and the paint brushes will spring into action and gracefully create a masterpiece, but then I won't know how to stop them and everything in the house will be painted to look like bamboo. (Actually, as you would know if you've had to listen to any of my dreams, that's way to normal and predictable. Oh well.)
4. Finish the laundry.
Pretty much, as long as you don't count folding it - hey, it's clean.
5. Get at least one more verse mostly written for the song I'm working on for Joe. (My days are not usually quite so creative, but today is a holiday, so I've set it aside for some projects.)
I didn't get any of another verse, but I did work more on the music, and I'm having fun with it. In my inexperienced opinion, I think that's the way it works sometimes. Some days I feel like writing the story, some days rewording lyrics is a fun challenge, some days playing with a melody comes more naturally, and some days reading what I've got and setting it aside is just perfect. But I can't wait to finish it and sing it for Joe! He'll love it. It's so hard to keep it a secret! Joe's knows I'm working on it, and he knows the title is "Didn't He Notice?" That makes him nervous, but it's gonna be perfect for him! And he already knows to fake it at first if he doesn't really like it. :)
For that "5 things" blog, I hardly got anything done on that list. I thought that writing that may make some of you feel a little better. Here's the run down:
What are 5 things on your to-do list today (not in any particular order)?
1. Get pictures to upload to blogger or complain about it enough for someone else to figure out my problem.
I actually did this, but it just magically worked one time when I tried it. So no complaining was needed (not that I didn't try).
2. Write and start filming a new video.
This has been difficult. Joe and I have very different visions for what to do, and it's frustrated me so much that I often lose any will to try making one. We did play a game where we made up a bedtime story. First Joe was alone with the camera and recorded the beginning of a story for 1 minute, and when the timer went off he wrote down the last sentence as well as three clues. I read the 3 clues and sentence, and then continued for another minute. I wrote down the last sentence and three clues and we switched. We ended up with 6 segments making up very possibly the worst bedtime story ever (okay, excluding the ones where someone dies - no one died in ours). When watched the whole thing together and cracked up. I don't know if I'll post it - it's really, really, REALLY dumb, but maybe some of you who know us would like to laugh at us. So I'll count this one as done, too.
3. Paint bamboo for our wall.
Totally didn't happen. We have EVERYTHING we need for this project, but it just sits there. I'm going to have a dream tonight where I read a spell and the paint brushes will spring into action and gracefully create a masterpiece, but then I won't know how to stop them and everything in the house will be painted to look like bamboo. (Actually, as you would know if you've had to listen to any of my dreams, that's way to normal and predictable. Oh well.)
4. Finish the laundry.
Pretty much, as long as you don't count folding it - hey, it's clean.
5. Get at least one more verse mostly written for the song I'm working on for Joe. (My days are not usually quite so creative, but today is a holiday, so I've set it aside for some projects.)
I didn't get any of another verse, but I did work more on the music, and I'm having fun with it. In my inexperienced opinion, I think that's the way it works sometimes. Some days I feel like writing the story, some days rewording lyrics is a fun challenge, some days playing with a melody comes more naturally, and some days reading what I've got and setting it aside is just perfect. But I can't wait to finish it and sing it for Joe! He'll love it. It's so hard to keep it a secret! Joe's knows I'm working on it, and he knows the title is "Didn't He Notice?" That makes him nervous, but it's gonna be perfect for him! And he already knows to fake it at first if he doesn't really like it. :)
Labels: Family, Neat or Funny, What's Happened
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