The garage is sorted

[voxwoman]

and I have 3 trash bags full of shredded papers that were in my father's large file cabinet, still. I also have a sizable stack of bowling award patches. Apparently, he was a pretty good bowler. I didn't want to simply toss them, so I'm thinking of making a bowling pin costume and covering it with the patches. Or something like that. I find it strange that he never wanted to put the patches on his bowling shirt, yet he kept them for decades (well, to be fair, he kept EVERYTHING. So it could be part of the overall pack-rat mentality).

I'm rather burned out, and I didn't get much of my own filing done today as I had planned. I only sorted through 1 1/2 boxes of my unfiled papers - I still have 2 1/3 left to do. But I think I'd rather spend some time in my newly reorganized sewing room, now that it's usable again (that was last weekend's project).

I have also moved the dictionary stand to the office and made room for it. It's holding all my really "fat" books underneath, and I'm keeping the angle part empty so that one can use it for looking at a ginormous book. I also recovered all my studio equipment from where it was buried in the garage, and it's made it into the house, which is progress, even if it's not in the office yet.  I also found this antique sewing machine, which I'm going to have restored and use it.

I can't wait for everything in this office to find a home and be relocated from piles on every horizontal surface.

Comments

[saminz.livejournal.com]

You really want to USE this ancient beauty? Will it be rebuilt with all kinds of new-fangled technology?
It seems too gorgeous for all this, somehow. Sell it to a museum...?

And allow yourself a day off sometimes, okay ;-)?

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

Mechanically, I think it's still in very good shape, and there's a fellow in Tenneseee who specializes in restoring antique machines. he has assured me that he does restoration; not replacement. (except for the wires!)

There are quite a few treadle machines still in operation these days, even in the US.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Don't beat yourself up too much. You can't do everything at once, not without amphetamines, not at our age. Take my motto and make it your mantra: Slow progress is better than no progress.

I wish I had the time and energy I had when I was younger. I could sit for hours at a time with a book and often complained of boredom, especially when I lived in that Podunk hellhole where I grew up. The more experience we have in life, the more work we feel responsible to take on. There are times when an activity or an organization sounds like a rewarding investment of my time, then I realize I have none to spare. Do what you must always; do what you can frequently; do what you want as often as you can fit it in.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

I'm not beating myself up; I'm just frustrated that it's not done. I just really want all the paperwork backlog off my list for good. I always "overbook" myself with chores. Not sure why. Last weekend, R and I actually got through the entire list. I have to reprioritize anyway - I've got 6 weeks to get all the costumes for Romeo & Juliet done, and that's going to take priority (which is why I was hell bent for leather last weekend to get my sewing room squared away. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew the shit was heading for the fan.) Even with the help I have this year, it's going to be tight.

[k-t-bug.livejournal.com]

I meant to comment earlier about your sewing machine: wowza! That is so damn cool, and I love that you're going to make it useable again.

Where in Tennessee is she coming for her sprucing?

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

Memphis.