Update and survey: "Why haven't you finished doing that project yet?"

The busy Summer travel season is coming to a close, but not before I spend most of October in California with my family. I always do a 2 week trip around a dance event called Boogie by the Bay in SF. While there, I inevitably eat my way through the bay area, completely abandoning my nutritional regimine in exchange for a nostalgic tour of the tastebuds.

Update: In response to a previous post, I did decide to partner up and dance a routine, putting baby #2 and design energies on hold, or at least in remission (yes, my design obsession is like a cancer, like a benign tumor that doesn't leave room for much else in life). And while I thought this would mean doing less decorating/remodeling, for some reason I'm doing to same amount, only for my house instead of others'.

I took all of Hazel's toys and organized them in the basement, installing new shelving to get them up off the floor and visible. I'm so tired of having volumes of stuff for Hazel to play with, and she's only inspired to grab what she can find on the surface, just the tinker toys that litter the ocean surface.

I also took all of my tools and began organizing them in the other half of our 2-car garage (we are a 1 car family anyway). I found an antique workbench, complete with old vise. I then hung peg board that I am determined to paint pink or purple at some point, simply to assert that a chick does the handy work around here - a joke between myself and I to laugh at together in animated congratulatory guffaws.

Now, I'm in the process of both 1) Setting up a design studio in the spare room on the 3rd floor, and 2) finishing the guest bathroom - finally. I'm tired of asking Aaron where I put something and having him respond with, "It's on the dining room sink." We don't have a sink in the dining room. That vanity I bought on clearance has been stored in there so long, we have come to refer to it as such. I've removed the old vanity in the guest bathroom, and now I need to paint the new one and install.

Meanwhile, my body is so fatigued from dancing, teaching, judging, emceeing, and traveling in general that I find my chemically driven, supernatural motivation for remodeling is waining slightly.

I've also taken over as housekeeper to save money. So when Hazel's at school, I'm scrubbing toilets instead of installing better ones. Why do I clean that which I hate? That which I will only replace as soon as I am able? At some undetermined point in time...

Photos to come. But in the meantime, I thought it might be fun to share unfinished projects together, and laugh as one collectively busy, fatigued group. What are your unfinished projects? How long have they remained undone? What holds you back from completing that task at hand?