I was complaining over the weekend about the problem of time vs. money that seems to plague me.  It seems that I can have one or the other, but not both...  sometimes neither, go figure.

Right now it's time that I've got plenty of.  Being unemployed (whether by choice or against your will) will do that for you.  Don't get me wrong, there is work that I can be doing, but all of that is dependent on other people, so I have *plenty* of time on my hands at the moment.

This is really not a good thing for me.  I am, at my core, a restless and busy person.  I can't sit still for too long (unless I have a specific end goal associated with doing so).  Time on my hands is not something I do really well with, I often wind up wasting it.  Productivity, I think, has different definitions for different people, so I find myself trying to create that personal definition.

You may be wondering what I'm going to do with all this time.  Well, maybe you're not, but if you know me at all, you already know I'm going to tell you anyway :-P

I have ideas all the time that I never actually implement.  Usually they are fleeting thoughts, but now I can put them into motion almost as soon as they occur.  The first of these is a new blog idea that occurred to me this weekend.  It's not really the type of thing that I can do on my own - it's pretty dependent on other people, so we'll see where that one leads.

Keeping with the blogging theme, I'm trying to make an effort to make a go of Ramblings as well.  Early last year I decided that I was going to be better about writing things down and, with the exception of a month-long hiatus over the summer, I have been very good about that.  Now I'm taking that to the next level.  I requested a review from I talk too much, which was something I did in a moment of spontaneity and I'm not sure what that will actually bring.  I also went ahead and created an account with Blog Explosion which, theoretically, will bring more traffic to the site.  Again, not sure what will come of this.  I did it more for BlogAnon than for Ramblings, but maybe both will benefit from it.

I also want to get more in touch with the overall blog community.  As such, I'm finding myself looking through blogrolls and surfing Blog Explosion, just to see what's out there and learn about what other people are doing.  I think I may be a little too self-centered to really go for it, since I don't know how much I care about a lot of the people I don't know.  However, I am making the effort and that should count for something.  I also want to be a little more active with BeerBloggers, since I'm not sick anymore and can actually drink the beer in the fridge while we're still in the season for which it is intended.

Moving on, there's a drive to expand my skill set.  I have a couple of old computers that are just taking up space.  Since Ryan says that I should have any kind of knowledge of Unix, I'm thinking about setting up one of these boxes with Linux.  Being a Woman of Extremes, I can't do things halfway.  While it may be a good idea, I can't only go so far as to be able to hold an informed conversation on the topic, I need to be able to ask questions and then implement the answers.  This will certainly be a learning experience for me...  and probably some kind of experience as I start tapping into my network of Unix guys (*waves*  Hi, guys!) and seeing if they can't help me make things work.

THEN there's all the graphic design stuff that I haven't even thought about in the past forever months.  The "Where's Justin" t-shirt that will probably wind up being a Cafe Press shop of it's own, the redesign of the Hot Bad Guys swag, the secret project that I keep going back to because I cannot make it work no matter how many hours of Photoshopping I put into it.

Of course there's also the music, which the performance aspect of was on hold for a month.  Now that it's the New Year, though, I need to get back into that.  Should be starting that tomorrow, which is a little daunting, but also something I think I really need to do.  It's one of those situations where the more you don't do it, the easier it is to continue to *not* do it, so I need to motivate myself and get back out there.

Other little things include painting (so I have any money at all - lol), walking the Spawn home from school, spending more time with the Child of Chaos (who is two now and utterly adorable), and making a point to get out of the house every single day.

*whew*  It's exhausting just reading all of that.  I'll be interested in seeing how much of it I actually get done...  and how much more I wind up adding.

Overall, though, I have to say, I think I'd rather have money.  Time, I can usually do without.

~FG };^>