Restless In Upstate NY

I have a million things going through my mind.  I want to do so many things at once and I can't stop my brain.

I want to buy the paint and get the bathroom done.  I just want it over with.  Of course, my daughter's dance tuition is due and also her bill for all of the new Irish garb she needs for the St. Patrick's Day season.  She is an Irish dancer and March is the equivalent of December for Santa for an Irish dancer.  It is non-stop.  Of course, she grows and therefore must have new supplies every few years.   Since she was squeezing her foot into a size 1 1/2 ghillie and she is actually a 4 1/2, it was time.  Once again, the paint for the bathroom is on hold.

I saw yesterday on pinterest a technique for inexpensively painting wood furniture that will give it a french country look.  It requires stain, flat white paint and shoe polish.  I'm pretty sure I have the stain and paint and the shoe polish could be acquired by a quick trip to the dollar store.  As I was dusting yesterday I noticed that "monster table" (as we have lovingly dubbed it based on it's size and weight alone) is looking kind of beat.  We have moved it everywhere.  It doesn't fit in my house.  My husband saw it years ago and had to have it.  Half of the table opens like a trunk for storage and the other half has tons of drawers for cd's.  We have a TON of cd's.  I'm trying to convince him to clear out because we do everything now on the computer but we shall see.

It seems like the perfect idea to give it a new life.  However, it is heavy.  I mean to the point that I cannot move it myself (trust me, I have tried).  In order to paint it, I would have to lift the edges and slide something under each edge to catch little "mistakes."  I prefer to do these things while my husband is at work.  He hates change.  If he comes home and it's just done, he is much more accepting.  I want to paint it but do not want to deal with the lifting.  Looks like that project will wait a bit too.

I also want to paint the bathroom vanity.  I KNOW my husband will flip if I do that so that definitely needs to be done while he is not home.  He hates when I paint things that are permanent.  I tried to paint the brick around the fireplace last year and he was so miserable about it that I gave up.  Actually, now that I mention it, I think I have enough paint to do that still.

See what I mean?  This is my head.  All day, every day.  Yesterday I made a four course meal for dinner because I found so many recipes on pinterest and happened to have all of the ingredients.  I would have made more but at some point even I realized my ridiculousness.

I did yoga this morning hoping to calm my mind.  Still churning.  I am going for a run now because 1. It's going to be gorgeous out today and I want to enjoy every minute of it and 2. I need to expend some of my energy.  I am worried.  When I get like this, it usually means I am going to get myself into some major mess.  I will start a million things and then a week from now change my mind and not want to finish them.  I hope the run tires me enough that the only thing I want to do when I get home is shower and nap!