Happyyyyyyy Saturday, folks! Oh yeah - it's probably Friday night for you guys, right? I'm half way through about three posts on various things but haven't been able to complete any. I'd like to say it's because I'm busy, but if I look at my life hard right now, all the 'busy' is my choice.
It's what I keep telling Jamie when he wakes up and starts freaking out. Sighing and lamenting that he is so busy and when will he get a rest? I let him go for a while before gently pulling him back up again. 'Babe,' I say, 'it's your choice'. If he sees it as a choice, maybe he can enjoy what he is doing and stop freaking out like Kermit the Frog. Enjoy the process. Enjoy the fact he's even in the position to have the time to 'do all this stuff'. Bless him, he listens. He knows I'm right, and cheers up for a bit. Sometimes it's just about making lists so you feel like you are getting through all this work you've chosen to do.
We've had this discussion a few times of late. He's been laying awake mulling over problems over and over and not sleeping. 'Babe', I say (sometimes you say babe a lot when you're trying to deal with a husband) 'just tell yourself it's alright, Kylie'll deal with that in the morning', as I inevitably do, helping him prioritise what needs doing first and just how to solve these problems he's invented. I don't believe anything is really a problem, it's just we haven't found the solution yet.
So. The weekend is about getting through this list and working on solutions.
This last bout of 'problems' started when we pulled down the woodshed and got the driveway done. We no longer had anywhere to put wood, or landrover parts, or the ride on mower. Jamie's shed isn't huge - it would be great for anyone not restoring old cars, but it's not big enough to do what he really wants to do with old cars! Plus, we have a guy with a Series landrover coming next week for Jamie to do some work on, and dear old Wally the 130 is sitting in pieces in it because Jamie chose to pull it apart so he can do a full resto on it (
Poles up, cross bracing and tin to go.
Thus, we decided to built a kind of open stable, three times the size of the woodshed, where we can put in the mowers, the wood, maybe a Landrover, and a third of it with big shelving to put in parts. Yesterday, I drove all the way to Melbourne (about an hour or so away) to pick up some big shelving from a warehouse. Today, we're hoping to finish the shed to get the shelving in and the garage tidied up. It's not the end of the 'problems' - we still need to extend the shed and get a carport, and Jamie's big wish is to get a huge mechanics workshop so he can start his Series/Defender business for real.
But we're getting there this weekend.
And one day, we might even sit on the beach and read books and look at the view. And when someone rings up and asks Jamie to do their gearbox or look over their Landie, we'll shrug and say 'Sure mate, maybe next week. We're a bit busy at the moment.'.
With Love,
