The Best Laid Plans...

So, one of the things I had intended to blog about was my wedding preparations, and all the things I was making and planning and how it was all going and all of that....well, it turns out that time ran away with me once again. I'm slightly shocked to realise today that I've been married for a whole month already.

Several times I thought about blogging about things I was doing, and how the plans were progressing, but it just never quite got as far as me actually sitting down and writing anything. This seems to be a recurring theme with me. I think I over-think things, not just about writing, but in general about doing anything. I think things over and over in my head or, as I found with the wedding planning, I research something almost to the point of ridiculousness, because can't stop trying to think of ways to make something either turn out better, or be cheaper, or both. I find it really hard not to leave doing anything until the last possible moment, but in the most part it's not due to laziness, I think that actually I'm just secretly terrified of having something turn out not quite the way I'd imagined it. The thing is though, that all these good intentions have only really led to things just not happening at all. I will think about something for so long, that by the time I feel that I've got it all worked out and I'm ready to go, I find that it's too late and the moment has passed.

I think the time has come for me to give myself a metaphorical kick up the bum. I have a "to do" list as long as both my arms and I'm determined to get some things crossed off. I thought I'd also try to write here once a day, for maybe a month or so to try and help keep myself on track.

There, I've said it, it's in black and white...there's no backing out now!

Time Waits for No Man

I have a really nasty habit of giving myself too many jobs to do whilst simultaniously massively underestimating the time required to complete said jobs. Or rather, more accurately, the time I will spend procrastinating and faffing about before I actually get on and start each job. I just always have this idea that "there's plenty of time, no worries!" and usually, there's much less time than I think there is. This is how I come to find myself with a good friend getting married on Saturday, and me having commited to making them a quilt as a gift. Is the quilt started? Nope. Have I cut any pieces? Nope. Have I even checked that I have enough batting in stock?? Nope. I have done nothing. Well, that's not entirely true, I have been doing things, but other things, with less imminent deadlines. So, I now have 3 days to make a quilt which I first decided to make back before Christmas *big sigh*. Why do I do this to myself?!

A Whole New World...

So. I've been thinking about it for like, forever, and never actually quite getting to the point of actually doing it - starting a blog, that is. I have to be honest and say that mostly I was (am) nervous about it because I have a habit of being all gung-ho about something and then just sort of getting distracted and letting it fizzle out. But like I said, I've been thinking of starting my own blog for I don't know how long, and so - in a moment of determination and possible madness - here I am, poking my head above the parapet and hoping it will all turn out ok. I have no real plan, so this will likely become a random collection of ramblings, musings and other bits and bobs from my life, but if you do happen to see me here, please stop and say hello because it is all just a tiny bit scary here all by myself!