One thing I'm gonna stop doing is predicting when I'll be back to devoting my site to my daily fitness adventures. For the last 2 weeks I'd publicly hoped by that weekend I'd have my off-line follies wrapped up only to be foiled again. So I'll just say it'll be back when it's back. [small voice] hopefully in another week or so [/end small voice] I am thisclose to finishing my super duper secret project and when it's ready, perhaps this'll all make sense. I also didn't mean to leave you guys hanging on the "Up for Grabs" challenge. It also ties into the super duper secret project so hang onto your fat beakers, I'll be collecting them very soon.
It's just that I get really wrapped up in whatever my brain chooses to focus on, picture a 4 burner stove. When I was going gangbusters about my health, it was all I could think, do, eat & sleep about. The motivation is still there, but it's been shuffled to the back burner as other things have moved forward. The front burner is dedicated to those things I need to get boiling ASAP, while the stuff on the back burner are on a low flame w/just enough spark to keep it warm while all my energies are bubbling up in the front.
When I was attending college #4 (of 5), I was studying public relations. It was then that I fell head over heels in love with web design making the most gawd awful sites, with hot pink backgrounds, flashing and blinking text, and audio that came on as soon as you hit the site. If you ever saw the Simpson's episode when Homer made a web page w/a dancing Jesus and all sorts of graphics...that was me.
I didn't have classes on Friday, so from the minute I got home on Thursday till Sunday I'd be on the computer non-stop. I think I managed to lose 15lbs that semester as well. I didn't eat. I'd always have one coding problem that needed to be worked out and would spend so much time figuring it out, I'd ignore the hunger, and by the time I figured it out, the hunger would pass and my happiness kept me full as I tried to figure something else out.
These days I'm a far cry from getting stumped by HTML coding, but I still get wrapped up. I just spend the ENTIRE weekend in the house working non stop from Friday afternoon to Sunday I'm-too-embarassed-to-say-how-late-I-stayed-up. 
But I do so miss my site and talking about the sweatdrops, the waking up @ insane hours, the soreness, the running and the experiments in eating veggies & such. And if I keep up what I'm doing, w/my personality, I'll ALWAYS have some problem to solve, as I'm never quite satisfied & am forever seeing something that needs a bit of tweaking. And it's the tweaking that gets me in trouble. It starts off w/a "Hmmm...how would it look if I do XYZ?" which quickly turns into me wanting to do ABCDEFG thru Z.
I s'pose it's time to reign myself in and accept, as this AMs quote suggests, that I can't postpone things due to wanting perfection. I need to relax my type A, anal persona and aim for having balance in the form of a few hours a day vs. the entire weekend.
Despite what my first sentence said, I'm going out on a limb to declare, this will be the final week the stuff I'm working on will reside on the front burner. And I won't wait till next Sunday, which is usually my favorite day to "begin again", but I'll rotate the pots and put my health back on the front burner of the site this Saturday 9/24.
You can totally flog me if I don't.
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"These days I'm a far cry from getting stumped by HTML coding, but I still get wrapped up. I just spend the ENTIRE weekend in the house working non stop from Friday afternoon to Sunday I'm-too-embarassed-to-say-how-late-I-stayed-up."
That just about sums up my weekends and week nights. The good news is that it dramatically curbed my TV viewing. The bad news I pushed weight loss to the back burner. I couldn't afford that, so it's back where it belongs and I trying to figure out how to get my sites done. I just love the web.