On the road again...

I have to get some things in order such as mail off my last ebay shipments for the things I posted last week, clean the house and pack things for the week I will be away.

It is time again, folks, for my one week mental health vacation trip. This year I will be staying with my friend Mich and her husband Andrzej in Coventry, CT.

I am really looking forward to it.

It will be a change of scenery, someone else's four walls. And I hope to get to work on some of the things I haven't been able to focus on such as a more focused search for jobs, grants and apartments. I'd like to sketch too because my artwork has really fallen by the wayside over the past few years because I had to focus on other things. And it wasn't that the things I focused on were fun, in fact they were the exact opposite of fun. But I am hoping that in another environment I might get some good sketches done for future paintings.

And maybe some writing, but that seems hazy because I need a lot of reference materials for that and I don't know how much I will be packing.

Which gets me back to the List part of our show. I currently have a list of 25 things I need to do. I also have a rough list of the vague things I need to pack and I have an even vaguer list of the food items I should bring so I am contributing to the household I will be spending my week with. And I know I will forget things, or bring things I don't need, or will not get around to using, but I will write the lists anyways.

I guess the reason women write lists(because most of my friends who suggest lists are 98% of the time women) is so that they feel like they have some control over their lives. That and to get the whirlwind of thoughts of the things that they need to do out of their heads and not have AS MUCH chaos in there. Women's' heads are chaotic enough without all that extra clutter.

So as writing this blog about going away is number 22 on my list(hey, I am not going in order, no one said you had to go in order), I get to cross another thing off that list and end this entry.

I have a lot to do and it seems that I don't have enough time to do all the things that need to get done. Isn't that always the way?