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Post details: Blog Your Blessings Sundays: Work, work, and more work...

11/30/08

02:29:33 pm, by

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Categories: Blog Your Blessings Sundays

Blog Your Blessings Sundays: Work, work, and more work...

Better late than never... To say things have been BUSY is a mild understatement... several online projects... many offline projects... prepping for Christmas and other holiday celebrations... family projects... it's been crazy-busy... and will remain so for a couple of weeks at least...

Oh, who am I kidding... consider this a bit of a notice... until after New Years (January 1st,) it's unlikely I'll be posting anything save for Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays... unless something REALLY bites me in the butt hard.

...that said...

With all these projects, a blessing did indeed occur to me... and that is something that's happened a lot in the past few months... and that is, like last week, finishing a project.... the simple yet powerful act of looking at something... a task, a model, a plan, a completed "thing"... and taking a pride in accomplishment and ownership of a task.

My blessing this week is the pride of completing a good project... and how one feels on completion.

...although many of my projects have been "behind the scenes" efforts... and work for others... and a few projects at home... I feel so happy to see them done and done properly...

A few more to go now... and some REALLY exciting ones too... kind of a bad time 'round Christmas, but such is the way of things... and I'm lovin' the work and that sense of accomplishment!

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Comment from: Paulie [Visitor]

· http://postcardsfromthenorthwest.blogspot.com/

Hey! That is a nice blessing indeed. Is there any way that you could start sooner to make the things and store them somewhere until Christmas? That would give the enjoyment of making things all year and leave behind the rush/business of getting them all made. I expect a full report on yoru handiwork after Christmas when you don't have to keep them a secret any longer. hehehehe

Permalink 11/30/08 @ 18:29

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey Paulie... Oh, these are requests that have only recently come in... and not all of them are actually "Christmas" related, but needed to be completed before the end of the year... and most of it is kinda "business" related... so it's up to the people who've asked for the efforts to publicize them. :)

Permalink 11/30/08 @ 20:00

Comment from: SandyCarlson [Visitor]

· http://slchome.blogspot.com

That's a great feeling! There is a lot of satisfaction in that--I've hard about it from others! Good for you.

Permalink 11/30/08 @ 20:25

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey SandyCarlson... 'Tis a good feeling indeed! :)

Permalink 11/30/08 @ 21:47

Comment from: CyberCelt [Visitor]

· http://advertising-for-success.blogspot.com

I am glad you have work in which you take pride.

Permalink 12/01/08 @ 02:09

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey CyberCelt... You should be very proud of your efforts in the blogsphere! You've done some amazing writing and about many important topics!

Permalink 12/01/08 @ 06:23

Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained a happier outlook on life by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items which, at the time included items about London removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try an "online" appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very youthful and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we had limited succes in this venture... and the youngest has now reached an age where she is more traditionally "teenaged" cynical than much else about the world, which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... our personal situation with money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying as hard to get the bus through online means... and yes, be far more realistic... but I don't mind this "turn" of things as I actually enjoy venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

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