I've just been too busy to be online much. I've done some quick lurking, but that's about it for the past few days.

However, during those past few days, I've done some great stuff, like pitching some things out, cutting up bowls of fruit that I've been munching on continuously, and purchasing an electric heater for my drafty living room. Maybe this will inspire me to be more organized and diligent at my lovely large desk area in that room. I also made a CD of a mix of songs designed to motivate me.

The CD and the heater remind me of something:
My grandma talks about a man in the town where she grew up. He always said he was "Rarin' to go, and can't go for rarin'." That's me. I'm great at planning things out and getting ready to do something. By that time I've spent all my energy and motivation, and so the real work never begins.

I'd be very interested to hear more from Zillah about the subject of discipline. I'm sure we all like to be couch potatoes from time to time, but I must admit that mental and physical "paralysis" is the biggest battle I fight with my depression/anxiety issues. I call it getting the "Can'ts". No matter how simple, how pleasant, how rewarding a task might be, if I've got the Can'ts, I literally cannot make myself do it.

This, of course, leads to further anxiety over work not done, and the circle continues.

Onward...

Julie
"We must have patience for love, born of an accidental look." --Me