This is the day that this
begins…
The Goose Fair jar for next
year. I’m putting two pounds a week in which isn’t a figure you miss, yet will
give me one hundred pounds to enjoy Nottingham’s biggest event. I won’t spend
it all on mushy peas; I’ll have a hot dog too.
Mandi volunteered to go into
work today and put in almost a full day so I had planned to get some work done,
(even though I’m self-employed and as such I don’t get time-and-a-half for
Saturday) but to be honest I couldn’t get motivated. I was up early for a
Saturday, 9am, and didn’t want to waste the day so I popped to the shops, took
Jack for a walk, did a couple of laundry loads, and vacuumed downstairs before
breakfast. By this time it was eleven o’clock and I could have blasted through
some work and tied up some loose ends, if I could have been bothered. As my
list of jobs that need finishing before the fast approaching end of the year
lay there on my desk accusingly, I spent most of the day choosing music and
recording The Sunday Alternative to give me a less
pressure Sunday morning, I also managed one chapter of the Nathan
McKenzie audio book. My original plan had been to record two
editions of The Sunday Alternative to give me a
break next week as I’m going away for a couple of days and only have Saturday
as a rest day before attending the Hockley Hustle festival on Sunday (as a
customer and not for work), but I was knackered by the time I had finished one.
I feel like a weight has been
lifted since I decided to only tackle the really important jobs before the end
of the year. The re-released audio book of A Christmas Carol
is already available to download for free or pay what you like, (I said pay
what you like, it’ll all go in the fund to finance future projects) and I have Whatever Happened To Nathan McKenzie and A Dickens Christmas Collection to release this year and Bowie Day just after Christmas. I’ll be glad to leave audio
books behind for the time being and concentrate on other avenues next year,
although I will still be doing The Sunday Alternative
and there’s a possibility of a new radio show in the pipeline (can’t say too
much at the moment) and I’m all too aware of how time consuming that can be.
To try and cheer myself up a
bit I looked at the Post-It® notes on my office wall with a view to taking some
of them down. When I have an idea for a possible project I write it on a
Post-It® note and stick it on the wall next to my desk, every now and again I need
to remove a few simply because the ideas aren’t workable. These rejections are
put in a box file and largely forgotten about until I eventually have the time
to dip into the box and find an old idea that has become a viable option, maybe
due to having more time to commit. If I die before all of my ideas are put to
fruition then some poor sod will be bequeathed my box of rejected/rested ideas
with a clause in my will that they have to finish what I started.
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