Overload

ColleenSwerb

ColleenSwerb

Brodo gettin her Swerb on
Ever have so many things to do, that you're just overwhelmed and have no motivation to do any of them?
Wedding photos from SEPTEMBER to edit, December Daily album to work on, random scrapping I want to do, 3-5 Christmas presents to knit, hybrid projects to do.

I know it's happened. Come sit with me on the combination no mojo-no motivation couch. I could use some company. :unsure:

ETA: It doesn't help that Sara's box o' Twilight arrived today either. I just wanna curl up in bed and start reading. Oh, and I'm no feeling well either. That also isn't helping.
 
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I feel you.
I have a turkey to cook, 5 layouts to do by the weekend, 2 calendars to make, a few crochet projects to start on, a house to clean, a floor that needs to be put in...etc.
Sometimes I think a trip to a quiet small beach with nothing but a bottle of booze, a book and a hammock would do quite nicely.
 
Oh Col, that is so me this week! I have so much to do and yet I end up too overwhelmed by it all to get anything done. And then I tried to make a list so at least I'd know all that I needed to do and I think that might have just made it worse. :D Doesn't help that I was sick all weekend either. Hang in there, just try to focus on one thing at a time. I know, easier said than done. :blink:
 
I'll join this party. :) I'm still miserably sick and it's making things so much worse...so much to do, but here I am! LOL
 
It's a huuuuuge couch. There's always room for more friends on the couch.

I love popcorn. Just when I had started with a little bit of motivation? Jordan called for dinner. :cursing:
 
Sprawls out on the couch, pushing you all off...

I've got the junk for those button trees laying all over, some decorations I should put up, and a bunch of other stuff I want to get done. Not to mention, every time I try to scrap something, it looks like that first LO I shared a while back. Yeah... with the cut out toys... mmmyyyeaaah. No good.
 
Ok parking my big butt here! Scoot over peoples!!

Ok I am behind in scrapping (wayyy behind ugh), have lots of GC jobs to do (which isn't completely bad because it means biz is good), trying to get things ready for Turkey Day, needing to get Christmas decorating done which then means I need to clean my house top to bottom first. The mountain of laundry has been calling my name (I wish it would just shut up). And because there is such a overload, I am sure I have gotten many things on my list.
 
Its good to know I'm not the only one! I think mine is compounded by too much work to do at the ole paying job - and the guilt associated with not wanting to do said work because I'd rather be home being crafty!
 
Make room for me!! I feel like that everyday, except the things I have to do aren't fun, crafty things. :thumbdown: My overload comes from having a 12-inch stack of assignments to grade before the end of the semester without having started yet. Blech.
 
I'll join you all too

here is my list of things to do
- sort digi stash
- laundry
- christmas shopping
- 6 weeks of work
- Clean out wardrobe
- catch up on CT stuff before guest spot starts in December
 
I'll join you all too. Got so much to do so of course took the kids to get haircuts and doughnuts instead.

I feel very doomed and history is repeating itself -- looks like I will be madly trying to get calendars done after Thanksgiving again. Even though I swore this year would be different. :thumbdown:
 
Thanksgiving to prepare, Christmas shopping/making to do, tons of stuff at DS's school in the next few weeks...ugh.

Quick, somebody snuggle me. :wub:
 
Oh Col, I'm right there with you sweetie. This happens to me a lot. So overwhelmed that it's almost daunting and I feel mojoless and don't know where to start.
 
oh i've had this for the last week too... I had to make gazzilion things, but with my wedding coming up in less than a month, it's beginning to be overwhelming and i can't figure out what to do first :(
 
I need a nice, big spot on this couch, too. I'll bring some hot chocolate to share. I have no energy or motivation--I was hoping to at least make a decent dent in my backlog of photos to be scrapped before DD is born, but I'll be lucky to get a few more LOs done before then. I need to get holiday cards done already, and I can't find the motivation to take the photos, never mind scrap the cards. I've been busy crocheting a blanket for DD and trying to find the energy for buying/washing/preparing for baby while taking care of 2 sick kids. :( It hit me a few days ago that I'm due in a month and baby is likely to be here before then, and I'm feeling soooo overwhelmed with what I still have to do. (A name might be a good place to start, huh?)
 
Excuse me, pardon me...scootch over a bit will you Fizzter & Col???? Wide-load slacker coming to sit with you gals! LOL!

The cough, cough, sniffle, sniffle on Monday has turned into a full-blown nasty cold today. Ugh! So, no further progress on my December Daily or my Twas the Night Before Christmas spinner. :thumbdown: And, I've got layouts I need/want to finish by Thursday night. :blink:

At least I was able to convince my almost-8 yo to finish my button tree. But, in the process made my 9yo jealous, so I need to get another styrofoam tree & more pins to make a GREEN button tree. :cursing: I am grateful that I have the rest of the week off from work and no big Thanksgiving day dinner to cook - it'll just be the 4 of us. But there are decorations to put up, kids to entertain while hubby studies for finals. :confused: Can I just cry here with y'all?????
 
Yes, I know exactly how you feel .... I say read the books and forget the other stuff :) ... or do the other stuff and make the books your treat for finishing things up.
 
nice couch... hey y'all! um, Fringe? that's a TV show? our TV is stuck on either Sprout or ESPN it seems.

meems - yep. me too on the calendars. and I had the stuffs from Heather Ann in um, August, I think. Black friday is looking like a calendar-scrap-a-thon as the aunties have offered free babysitting.

Think I'm asking for a cleaning service for Christmas. As the only gift, from everybody. No joke. Just once a month or twice a month or something. I'm just imagining life, coming home to a clean house that is vacummed and dusted and shiny, and thinking that will do wonders for my stress levels for the year.
 
I've given up, Col. Why don't you (don't) try? 'Tis easy.

I'm sick... have to drive up to my parents tonight... FI will be crabby as he always is before he goes on trip... will have Tyler w us & who knows how he'll act during Thanksgiving dinner... still need to cancel car insurance, Internet provider, & gym membership... have to move out & clean old apt by Sunday night... still have 4 desktop calendars to make...

I've gone to bed at 10 the past two nights & spent most of last night watching 'Forgetting Sara Marshall.' :p
 
I'll join you guys as well! i haven't been scrapping a whole lot the last few days. not a lot of mojo for some reason. i have been catching up on my laundry. i'm almost done. but the rest of the house needs a good cleaning but i just don't feel like doing it. i'm tired and restless all at the same time. Today, i have to go get my haircut (yay! hoping that will motivate me) and get the ingredients for the two pies i am making for my moms thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night. this doesn't sound like a lot, but try doing all that with the younger two kids in tow. they are always running off or something while i'm shopping. i hate taking them. i'm hoping that today maybe i can go get the kids some donuts this morning and then leave them home with DH occupied with those (lol) while i atleast run to get my haircut. if i take them with me, they'll surely be into everything at the salon.

i'll make an extra pie (or two) and share with everyone here on the couch! i'm making an apple one that i found the recipe in one of those free Kraft magazines i've been getting. you spread cream cheese on the bottome of the pie before you put in the apples. yum. i also am making a turtle pumplin pie. its just a regular pumpkin pie with pecans in the bottom and also on top with cool whip and drizzled caramel. yummo!!
 
I am defenitely there!! I have not scrapped (well scrapped and finished) a page in awhile. I have started four or five crochet projects only to unravel them because they werent going together properly. Combine that with how crappy I am feeling after an auto accident this weekend and I just have zero motivation.
 
Not going to be able to help you out here, when I was reading the Twilight series for the first time, I got absolutely nothing done. All I did was sit and read. :thumbup:
 
I've had that going on the past week. I had a nice burst about 2 weeks ago and now I'm feeling a bit blah, and I HAVE to finish my paarents calendar layouts this weekend.

I've been distracted by a series of Pride & Prejudice sequels by Elizabeth Aston featuring Darcy's daughters and assorted relations about 20 years after P&P.
 
Dang, I hope this couch is an oversized overstuffed sectional because I need a spot! I haven't scrapped in a week! I did paper scrap a bit this weekend but all I got done was some cards and Basic Grey Ornaments. I have been sick tho, and confirmed it was strep throat last night so I am hoping an antibiotic will get my mojo runnin again!
 
Afternoon my mojo-less friends!
We skipped work today and slept in WAY late. Then migrated out to the couch in the living room where I have spent the day doing nothing. Jordan bought a new game for his PS3 last night, so I'm been watching him play it all day (it's like the Sims kinda, but it's civilizations and you're building an empire or something? It's like Risk smashed with Sims, that's my best explanation, lol).

I just now checked my email, downloads stuff I SHOULD be scrapping with from my awesome designers.

Except I'm going to take my knitting (and Twilight) back out to the couch and probably do neither. I feel like total BLAH today and I'm just going to relax and not stress about anything else. Maybe by tonight I'll have some motivation after laying around on the couch all day.
 
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