Two Thirds Down

I'm reminded on almost a daily basis why I'm having my One Year of Opus...and it's not always why I thought I was doing it. But it's one thing in my life that's always good. It's never been a negative. Occasionally I do ponder the idea that I'm crazy....as in How in the Hell am I going to Make Money!? but I never think I made a mistake or a wrong decision. A few days ago a picture popped into my mind. A picture of a small table, with a bit of carving (I got a Dremel kit for Christmas), some paint, and a whole bunch of Chinese fortune cookie fortunes shellacked all over it. Pop! There it was. I thought, that's my Good Fortune table. So today I built the table part. I love wood and power tools. The sound of the electric drill screwing in 1/4 inch screws. The solidness of all the pieces attached together. Measuring using a CD case instead of a tape measure because the tape measure is no where to be found. Wooo-Whoo! I felt excited about it and sometimes, when life in general gets crummy or overwhelming and I forget my purpose, I stop being excited. So today it was so good to feel like I KNOW where I'm going. And I thought that was all.

Then the phone rang about 10:45 and it was my son calling me from school. He has a science project due in a few days and his partner is out of town for a week. He asked me to come help him with his project...which is Which is Stronger, Recycled Paper, Handmade Paper, or Plain Paper? It felt so great to say yes I'll come help you. So I sat on one of those small chairs and cut strips of paper and asked Jay questions so he could do a table (the kind on paper this time, with facts and figures) and he said thank you several times and I thought thank you several times. There were three little girls at the same table doing their project and one of them did not understand the graph thingy and just started to cry. She was so dear and confused and so I asked them if they needed help too and I felt so at home, working on science projects and answering questions.

Sometimes I feel like I've gotten off track. I haven't bought clothes but I have occasionally bought more than two coffee drinks a week. I haven't used my credit card but Holy Cow I bought a house in Kansas. But mostly, I wasn't doing the creative stuff, I was doing the housework, or talking on the phone, or going to lunch. So, this week, I get back on track. I've got a little less than four official months left of my OYOO. I have three book ideas, loads of furniture to paint, and a garden to start. Plus all that other stuff, like working on science projects with Jay, that fall under the Art of Living category. I wonder if I can file an extension :)