who is the enemy of my success? my enemy is confusion, the too-many-steps monster, the creature that draws my eyes toward sweets and steeps my mind in the cozy warmth of my bed and couch. my enemy is the mirror that reflects my thoughts of tiredness, hiding from view the urgency of my quest, the dwindling number of days between now and my destiny, and the list of tasks that i must rise to meet before spring.
my task. my tasks for today are: laundry. some of my nicer clothing now has deer blood all over it, so i have to do laundry. i am using the machine because it is freezing cold and i am short on time. my wipes were washed by hand two days ago, and are drying on an improvised laundry line made of jute twine in my attic, where it is 25 degrees.
scraping hides. yesterday i spent sixty dollars on a drawknife that i may use to scrape deer hides. if i use the proper side of it i’ll have to dull it down. in order to save that sixty dollars for a better use, i have to get my phone from upstairs, call my stepdad, ask him where in the workshop he keeps some other scrapers that may work for my use, and probably call a local woodworker again to ask if he has any old mill planer blades. then i have to thaw my two hides, gather the potential scrapers, and test them out. the thawing alone will take a long time. maybe i will move the hides into a bucket indoors to thaw so i can test the scrapers tomorrow.
business stuff. my books and calendars are selling. i’ve sold nine things in the last two and a half weeks, making this the biggest ‘rush’ of business i have seen in all my time on etsy. also, in LESS than a Month there will be a review published in sagewoman magazine about my calendars. i have many many books to make, boxes to cut, paper to arrange, calendars to design, draw, scan, edit, and publish. especially to prepare for a long growing season at red earth, i must make calendars very far in advance. ideally, before i leave, i would have calendars ready through… the summer of 2012. or even the autumn of 2012. that’s a lot of calendars.
my etsy shop and web site. i need to update my etsy shop – i want to list items for multiple calendar purchase, and that requires taking some pictures and printing some calendars. i have to find my nice paper or buy more. i have to update my web site with virginia information and decide if i’m even offering henna this winter. i think maybe not. or maybe i just won’t promote, but will leave the option open.
i want to work on my quilt, make a new wipes bag, sew my prayer flags, make soap, arrange visits to nearby sheep, alpaca, and goat farms, and generally do about a million things. all this requires preparation, action, and energy. time to get off the couch.
