Have you ever felt like you've painted yourself into a corner in your life? Felt like you couldn't stand the life you were leading when by all estimations, even your own, it's a pretty good one? That's the place I've found myself at this spring. Usually these feelings precede some momentous change coming but don't necessarily mean that change is coming soon. I hope that it is. The feeling of discontent is difficult to live with. I am very happy with my job at Bok Tower and fervently hoping for a full time position to open there for me. It's at home that I am desperately seeking change. The furniture and curtains needs to be rearranged or just changed out. I still feel like I am holding onto things that I have accumulated through Harold and poverty. My life has changed. I have changed. And what I am surrounded by in my home needs to change with me because I can feel the pull of the past on me, weighting me down. I'm not entirely sure which way to go in the future but I don't want to go back to the past.
I have several options to choose from for the future; crafting jewelry, writing a blog and/or a book, doing online transcription services. I think I'll be doing all of these options, at least in the beginning, to supplement my work income during the slow summer months. And my hope is that by doing all of these separate things that one of them will stand out as a primary source of supplemental income. The challenge is in getting the house set up so that each of these tasks can be done without having to reset a room every time and having the most commonly used items easily accessible. This might entail changing out some furniture, buying some shelving units or toolboxes to store smaller items in. Storage and work space remain my biggest challenges to solve. Well, that and actually putting things away. I absolutely must learn that habit this year.
I'm not sure what the block is on putting things away at home is. At work it is no trouble at all keeping a clean and neat work space. It's part of my routine at work, to put things back every time they're used to exactly the same spot so that I don't have to search for them the next time I need them, even if that next time is just 30 seconds later. It makes for good productivity and efficiency at work and reduces errors. It would make life much easier at home too but I've not done it there for years. Some of that is just falling out of habit when we were moving from one house to the next so much. And while moving so many times we acquired a lot of "stuff" that I still have bits and pieces of and need to make some decisions on. The majority has been dealt with but what's left are things that I like but that may not really be helping me make this shift toward the future.
I am thinking that I also need some enrichment in my life to spark creativity, so I need to look into some low-cost or free summer classes to do that. I know the library has some online courses to do but I'd like something with an actual time and place, as I'm less likely to procrastinate that way. So if anyone knows of any courses like that, drop me a comment, I'd greatly appreciate it. Subject matter could be anything; crafting, history, writing, I have quite diverse interests.
