Zoo Metaphor

I'm wondering if I define my life as a zoo and me as the zookeeper, does that help me understand the care and feeding that comes with my various pet projects and interests. And each purchase / interest adds to the care and feeding requirement / burden. Each relationship / friendship / club = zoo animal. House = zoo exhibit / several animals. Each interest, each collection, each project, each pet = zoo animal. It can come down to each storage item = zoo animal. For example, gardening is an interest. A garden and related activities can be very time consuming, to a similar degree as a pet animal / zoo animal. Every day, so form of care and feeding may be required. If I am into both gardening and, say, beading, I have to find a way to fit in activities each week / month / day, depending on how often that interest requires "care-feeding".

This may be an obvious conclusion for many people, but it's starting to become a reality in my life, hence the blog entry.

Having this mindset gives me the ability to edit my "zoo" and budget my time. I can prioritize the essential care and feeding needed to stay up to date and organized with my "zoo". And it puts the requirement to simplify into perspective. As difficult as simplifying a life may be, it may be an essential thing to do, or risk becoming hopelessly disorganized and scattered.

To come: zoo inventory.

To Dos 9-22-10

Warranty box re-org
Corner re-do
Closet re-do
Scrapbook

Summarize to dos

Want to do (8-10-10)

Jewelry:
Beading : paper beads, beaded chain, laquered pendants -- wire mounted crystals

Gardening:
Plant table

DIY Greenhouse done 8/17/10

Cuttings done 8/17/10
Rosemary
Galvezia
Zauschneria California Fuschia
Allen Chickering Sage
Buddleia
Loquat

Seeds done 8/17/10
Common Thyme
Rio Grand Chili Pepper
Zinnia
White sage
Chard
Zulu Daisy


Master Bedroom
PROM - Purge, Remove, Organize, Maintain

Important papers

School start:
Scan photos for St. Rita's
Pay tuition
Supplies

Summarizing the last two weeks

Son's bedroom re-do (repaint, new furniture, new closet, new curtains; wall mount the TV); flower bed re-do (divide daylilies and society garlic, take out kalanchoe, container succulents). Shuffling back and forth to Surf Camp. Strawberry short cake. Considering opening an Etsy shop with Paula's designs. EOF

Does this blog make my consciousness look fat?

Hunks of consciousness ... becomes chunks of consciousness, morphing into chunky consciousness, which could mean obese consciousness? Playing wit the words is all.

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Capturing moments ... who needs it?

I started blogging to capture moments and random thoughts that would otherwise just vanish into ephemera. And it's working for me, for the most part. I capture random thoughts and there they sit for a virtual eternity, for me to be able to go back and remember. I lack discipline, I don't flinch from saying it. I can imagine journalling or blogging every day, but really, I wouldn't do that. It's not in my scattered nature. But some thoughts that go by like a CNN ticker are just too juicy to leave to an undisciplined blog. What do I do with those hunks of consciousness?

As pointless as those chunks of me might be to others, I still feel compelled to record them publicly. That's a head-scratcher right there ... why in public? But otherwise, I still wonder what to do to try to shape them. I feel perfectly content with struggling in my undisciplined and random blog-mumblings for now. I guess I just need to keep capturing the moments.

Aside: this week's Memphis Beat is a trip: "Family is an albatross around the neck of great men .... the only people who say otherwise are parasite women who are looking for good men to make their hosts." Priceless line, really. Jason Lee must tap into some buried crazy streak in his suspects, they have seemed to cough up their confessions with minimum prompting. Must be the Memphis Heat ... .