The List: Late June Edition

I'm well out of the time-table set out by my last stickied to-do list, so it's time for To Do List 2: Son of To Do List.

Item 1: Write out 'to do' so many times you start reading it as 'toe-doe.'

Before Sunday
Riki-tiki-tavi the siding over the garage
Take screws out of form boards before someone injures themselves and I feel stupid
Mail super secret package

Studio (things I can do on my own)
E-mail city inspection supervisor
- get opinion on untreated 2x6s in writing
- ask about water heater moving/changing to gas
Learn the L&I electrical permit requirements pronto
Apply for L&I electrical permit
Research cost of new electrical panel (eek) because dad's afraid of this one (eek)
Research difference between 120v and 240v for heated floors
Cut and fit cardboard baffles in roof bays while it's easy to get up there

House & Yarden
Bring crap to Goodwill
Move wood chips to cardboard-ed area
Weed & cardboard area under and around north rhody
Move more wood chips
Schedule PSE to pick up old freezer

General
Mailbox
- paint something.
- paint anything.
- seriously, Marvin the Martian has been waiting for his head and torso for a whole month
- it's just little Marvin legs
- you should feel awful
- think of the Martians
Ill Considered Fic Project
- Decide on Title
- Finish editing first chapter
- Publish first chapter
Draw one of the 42 things that's been floating in my head recently
- OCs from Star
- New Maybe Potential Actually Original Fantasy Thing characters
- New pathfinder character
- tiny dinsoaurs in cat harnesses

The List: Late June Edition

I'm well out of the time-table set out by my last stickied to-do list, so it's time for To Do List 2: Son of To Do List.

Item 1: Write out 'to do' so many times you start reading it as 'toe-doe.'

Before Sunday
Riki-tiki-tavi the siding over the garage irrelevant
Take screws out of form boards before someone injures themselves and I feel stupid
Mail super secret package

Studio (things I can do on my own)
E-mail city inspection supervisor
- get opinion on untreated 2x6s in writing Yay!
- ask about water heater moving/changing to gas would require additional permit, yeeeuck.
Learn the L&I electrical permit requirements pronto Easy peasy, but I have to figure out whether I need new panel first.
Apply for L&I electrical permit
Research cost of new electrical panel (eek) because dad's afraid of this one (eek) $100, plus lots more if it's not GE (because breakers are separate and brand specific)
Research difference between 120v and 240v for heated floors same, get 240
Cut and fit cardboard baffles in roof bays while it's easy to get up there

House & Yarden
Bring crap to Goodwill
Move wood chips to cardboard-ed area
weed, cardboard, and mulch
Weed, cardboard, and mulch all the way around north rhody
Schedule PSE to pick up old freezer

General
Mailbox
- paint something.
- paint anything.
- seriously, Marvin the Martian has been waiting for his head and torso for a whole month
- it's just little Marvin legs
- you should feel awful
- think of the Martians
Ill Considered Fic Project
- Decide on Title
- Finish editing first chapter
- Publish first chapter
Draw one of the 42 things that's been floating in my head recently
- OCs from Star started!
- New Maybe Potential Actually Original Fantasy Thing characters
- New pathfinder character started!
- tiny dinosaurs in cat harnesses adorable!

Frustration

My foot's still not all the way better, and the healing trajectory seems to have leveled out over the past week. I did finally call the doc and chat with the nurse a bit, but there's nothing I didn't already know/guess. Basically, I should be babying myself more -- and that drives me NUTS. By my normal standards of activity, I AM resting.

Er, except for being on my feet all day every day last weekend remodeling. I suppose that doesn't count as 'rest'. But I didn't go to yoga! And I didn't start moving the five yards of woodchips, even though I really, really wanted to!

You'd think I'd be practiced at this, but I'm really not. Most of my experience included a LOT more pain than this -- if not immediately, then at least the next day -- so there was a really good motivator not to overdue things. This is more "small, I can handle it, whatever" that just hasn't gotten better.

(And I was really, really good about taking care of myself immediately afterwards, babying things for a week, so I've hit the point of OKAY DONE NOW. I mean, I HAVE WOOD CHIPS!).

I mentioned it to Dad at rehearsal tonight, and he said that on Sunday (when we frame in the garage door hole) I was going to sit on a lawn chair and watch while he built and narrated.

:o

I'm glad he mentioned narrating -- he understands how important it is to me to learn -- but I don't think I can manage sitting on my ass while he does the whole thing. Not when I can get around just fine. I told him I'd bring out a chair, and sit down whenever I wasn't actively working (there's usually quite a bit of that, while you figure things out or someone does a one-person job).

"I'll narrate. I promise."
"I'll rest whenever we're not actively doing something, I get it, I should've done that saturday."
"I'm afraid instead of one weekend not working you'll have months of working miserable."
"I know, and I'll rest part of the time."
"Okay," *in stern daddy voice* "but when you start moaning I'm sending you to your chair."

That'll do, I suppose.

What he doesn't know is that, if he's that insistant on me sitting, I'm going to make him push me around on the big cart when we go to Home Depot. WAHOO!