Making progress... slowly.

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Here's one of the cross-stitch projects I've been working on lately. It's a small tablecloth that I started before I left Munich.

This rotation system is really a great idea -- I find that by the time I start getting bored with something, it's about time to start on the next project. I have four things on my list right now, but I think I'm about to finish one (I'll post a picture when I do) and then I'll add another one to my rotation, or maybe a couple more.

The strange thing is, ten hours of stitching really doesn't yield as much visible progress as I expected. However, this does give me a great appreciation for how long it actually takes to finish something big. I think I always underestimated the amount of time I put into completing projects before, but now that I'm tracking it (even casually), I can see that it's a lot more than I realized.



In some ways, working on the house feels like the same thing. We are making progress... but slowly. We still have a lot of boxes to unpack in the study and basement, and a few in the bedroom, but right now we are still going through things and trying to sort out what we want to get rid of. It's slow going.

Today Marty's installing an organizer in my closet so that I can use that space more efficiently; I think that'll help us make some more progress in the bedroom. We both found out many moves ago that once you start getting used to the boxes -- once they become "furniture" -- it is very hard to make any more progress.

I suppose I could take all this time I'm spending on cross stitch and put it into unpacking boxes, but I think it might drive me crazy.