in between
I signed the mortgage papers today. I\'m glad I managed to notice that it had me paying 5% interest instead of 10%. That saved me $3000 in CMHC insurance and $60/month in mortgage payments. Funny how little things like that can make a difference.
I really have to get packing. My initial burst of energy that got me into this house thing in the first place has mostly petered out, so I\'ve got to consciously motivate myself. It\'s not that motivating myself or getting things done is spectacularly hard, it\'s just that my natural inclination at the moment is to flop myself in front of the computer or on the couch or something and just not get anything done. I have to remind myself that no, doing nothing, while tempting and desirable, is not the best use of time. There will be lots of time to contemplate the universe or my navel in the future. A bit of downtime is a good thing, so long as it\'s only a bit.
National Procrastination Week was last week. I guess I just put it off till now.
Work\'s kind of the same way at the moment. Mostly because I don\'t really have anything that I need to focus on. I\'m mostly doing research and planning stuff at the moment, and that always feels like a whole lot of nothing. I don\'t know what to do, so I don\'t know what to do. The goal is to figure out what to do so I can do it. Not having easy access to all the information I need to figure that stuff out slows the process down a little. I should make a plan. I should make a plan to make a plan. I think I\'m seeing why this stuff seems so pointless.
I don\'t think I\'m as listless right now as this might sound. I just feel like I\'m at the point where I\'ve done the hard work in setting a bunch of things in motion and now all I have to do is wait to see how it turns out. I guess I\'m worried that I\'ll look back at the in-between waiting times as a waste, even if it isn\'t immediately clear what I could be doing to make it not a waste.
I probably think about crap like this too much.