It's got to stop

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Umm. that's about as far as I've got.

Well, basically I'm spending too much time on this. My elbows have seized up, my mouse wrist is getting shooting pains, my thumb aches and I can only sit here for about ten minutes before getting pins and needles in my arms. And my eyes are sore and itchy every morning! (but smut's gone thank heavens :)
Further, I am usually still up at 2 am thinking, Oh just a quick look at so and so's blog, just one more picture, wonder if so and so has put any more pictures up.....until about 2.50 when I suddenly think, got to stop NOW! Set the alarm to give me at least six hours, oversleep, stumble around zombie like, thinking if I'd got up earlier I could have gone to the woods to take early morning pictures.

See? It's got to stop.

The trouble is I have no self discipline. Midnight witches along, glances at me, shrugs and carries on past. Chores leap into view hopefully and then fade under the seductive glow of the computer screen. Morning glimmers through the curtains, raises it's eyebrows and leaves me (snoring, no doubt) to dream. Not, oddly enough, of blogging, though sometimes of pictures or music. More often of having got up and found a thing I'd lost or done a task that I didn't look forward to or of having missed something I was supposed to be doing....that usually gets me up and out in a single bound!

The organisational feat of the family party was mostly to do with keeping myself on the job. The temptation to reward myself for each ten minute task completed, with a couple of hours playing with pictures or blogging required a good deal of metaphorical backside kicking and scruff of neck grabbing. My internal language index went blue with the mental effort. (under stress, I tend to swear at myself a lot; the inside of my head was peppered with F's and B's)

So. I've hidden the RSS feed and the bookmark sidebar and made a plan.
Blog one day, flickr the next and everyone else the third (only I'm sorry, we're away on thursday evening so I may not have much time for everyone else this week).

And I shall do it in the morning so I can play with pictures in the evening.

I do apologise for rabbiting on about this subject yet again...I know I'm entitled as it's my blog etc but it's probably geting a bit repetitive.

A bit of evening sun.

Meanwhile, I'm scouring the local charity shops for 'loose, comfortable, well worn' clothing. It has to be cool, and mustn't be brightly coloured. Shades of khaki, brown and navy are going to feature in the selection along with a dark brown hat. Comfy sandals? Walking boots? trainers???? I'm so glad I got a black camera and not the silver one! Wouldn't want to frighten off the big game!
And tomorrow the new freezer might arrive. That will be a relief. I'd better clean out the cobwebby space it has to go in.
As if this wasn't enough, my friend the photographer is coming to stay to give me lessons in those things I don't understand, about cameras. F stops and apertures and um...focussing fields?? Then we're all going to Cropredy for the weekend for the Annual Fairport Convention Reunion to eat amazing food, shop madly in festival stalls and Oh, yes, listen to music.
Now I'm starvin'ungry and must have breakfast and get on with the day. If it takes me this long every morning to do a bit of blogging I may have to rethink the whole plan!

*the glasses are only relevant in that I took the picture in the middle of the night.