Always Rushin: Catching up

Written 23 August 2016

I have to smile when I look at my list of six main goals for 2016. Actually, I shouldn’t be unhappy, because I’m more or less on track.

Two of them I have, in fact, achieved: “Get a cool car” & “Get a cool job”. Another one I can definitely say I’m doing, although the frequency hasn’t been great: “Keep dancing”. Another one is funny because it’s so vague (“Perform a lot”), although even there I can say I’m on track, if having a weekly gig is “a lot”. It’s all relative, right?

But then the last two – eish! One is “Blog at least 60 times”. Almost the end of August, and this is post no. 18 for the year……..! I’d have to do some serious posting to catch up. Let me see, that would mean 42 more between now and 31 December, which is 4 months + 8 days, so 130 days. That would mean one blog post roughly every 3 days. Ja, right!

As I’ve said before, on this site: I love writing. I think about it all the time. I take pictures of the world around me, every single day, and I could blog about every one of them. There’s so much to say. I observe people, and I sense energies. I experience nuances and subtleties from different people, as we all do, and I have so much buzzing around inside my head about all of that. So why don’t I blog more often?

It’s just the same two things that have eluded me for so long – space, and time. But for writing, particularly time. When I’m at home, I’m usually doing more than one thing at a time. Like right now, I’ve got the washing machine going and every now and then I have to get up and hang stuff on the line. Breaks my groove a bit, but I can comfortably do both. With cooking, though, I can’t blog. Unless I’m putting something into the oven. No, even that doesn't work, because I do the dishes while the food’s in the oven. And anyway, I don’t like the combination of food, wet hands and a laptop. Naah.

And there are other things I have to do every evening, like iron clothes and prepare my lunch for the next day. In a good week, I dance every second night, and that needs time, as well. I’ve got into the habit of journaling after dancing, so that takes time, too. I read before falling asleep every night – more time.

Right now, we’re out of data for the internet (thanks to my stupidity, downloading a huge file without checking the size), which means I couldn’t be on Facebook even if I wanted to. Now there’s the real time waster for me. Oh my word, I have absolutely NO willpower when it comes to social media! I have to set an alarm when I sit down, otherwise I will look up and three hours will have passed. I have a personal page and a musician page (Trudy Rushin, Singer-Songwriter), and I move between the two, usually spending most of the time on the personal page, where there’s lots of interaction with my Friends.

But there’s another activity I could lose myself in for hours, and that’s playing my guitar. I will play later tonight, because I didn’t play last night. So I’m blogging and doing laundry with a time limit, because after this, it’s shower time, and then I’ll settle down with my guitar. 38 years later, the thought of playing my guitar still makes my heart skip a beat! My longest love story (yet). ;-)

I think I’m incredibly lucky, to have so many things in my life that I love so much. And I haven’t even spoken about time spent with family, when I’m home, and friends, when I’m not.

So maybe I should just repeat tonight’s programme every three days. That way I’d reach my goal of blogging at least 60 times. Watch this space.

And what about my 6^th goal? “Copyright my songs”. Oh, hell! Have I mentioned I’m a procrastinator? More time! :-)