Completion

A few weeks ago I bought a 2000 piece puzzle. Let me just say, I know how to have a good time. I would sit with a glass of wine and crackers spread with goat cheese working my puzzle while a documentary was on tv. Seriously, I am such a nerd. But a classy nerd.

Doing this puzzle totally consumed me. I spent way more time each day on it than I felt like I should have been doing.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do things that I want to be doing. And then I rebel against myself. I want to make homemade bread, I want to run, I want to blog, I want to build a website with my hubby, I want to play with clay, I want to keep my house clean, I want to teach my children. This is so completely silly. These are all things that I want to be doing. Nobody is telling me to do these things. But there are a lot of things on my list. And a big problem with them is that there is no end. All of those things are on going.

So I begin to feel overwhelmed. And when I feel overwhelmed, I shut down. I realized that I needed to do this puzzle. I needed a project that had an end. And so I finished it.

Now back to being an overachieving nerd….