Motivationally Challenged

So I’m having a somewhat difficult time getting into The Christmas Card Endeavor this year. Oh, I managed to start playin with pics and throwin together the design for the actual card a few weekends ago… but my momentum has kinda fizzled since then.

I’ve always viewed the creation of my Christmas Card in 5 steps:

1) Going through the cards I received last Christmas and throughout the year to update my addresses
2) Designing the Card
3) Writing the Newsletter
4) Printing the Card and Newsletter (hopefully a much less time consuming proposition now that I have my laserprinter)
5) Throwing everything together and mailing them

So far, I’ve got about 85% of Step #2 completed… and that’s about it. Of course, I still have a little bit of time left before my December 1 deadline, but so far, prospects for my motivational momentum are not high. Doesn’t help that I have been sucked up into a flurry of book buying and reading lately. This past weekend, when I wasn’t running errands, Christmas shopping with Pop, getting ready for Sunday dinner or logging my newest books in the database, I really, really, really tried to sit down and work on my card. But all I wanted to do was sit down and curl up with a book. So, I did. I have no discipline at all.

Pop thinks I should just take a break from them this year. I dunno… I’ve been doing them for 12 years now. At the very least, I’ve always written a newsletter. So… we’ll see what I feel up to in the next few weeks. I hate to force myself, cuz I never want my annual labor of love to become a chore I hate to do.

Bus Snob thinks I’ll get back into the swing of things if I get back to bloggin. I dunno… I seem to be doing that this week, but I’m not noticing a difference in the ol’ motivation department. At least not yet.

Ah well… guess we’ll see.