Productive

I love feeling productive. I love making to-do lists and crossing things off as I complete them. I love going to bed feeling like I've gotten a lot done. So last night was good for me.

Some of the planks on our new floor got scratched up when we had people over to play games on Friday. I had forgotten to put the pads on the chairs, and by the time we noticed some damage had been done. not a lot, and probably not even worth bothering over, but since I had a whole box of planks left, and it was only going to be about six boards to change out, and we haven't gotten the moulding in yet and it happened to be in an area that it would be easy to redo, I decided to go ahead and replace the boards. So I got that done, and pretty simply, too.

Then I moved all the furniture out of the dining room, laid out the pad for the new rug, laid down the new rug and then trimmed the pad to fit. Got the dining room set back up. The new rug looks really good, and the cat freaking loves it. She likes running her claws through it, but it's thick enough that she doesn't catch the base of it, so it just ends up looking like she's been running tiny combs through it.

Then I cut all the pieces of quarter round for the kitchen and stained them. I should be able to poly them tonight and install them on Friday or Saturday.

I made dinner, and unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher. Did a load of laundry. And went to see a late night showing of Bolt in 3D with Justin. A very good movie, I highly recommend it.

So I feel all productive and exhausted and pleased with myself.

But it doesn't last, which is frustrating. I suppose it's what keeps me going. I like the feeling of being productive, but it doesn't last, so I need to keep being productive to get the feeling. My "daughter of an addict" mentality gets a little tweaked when I describe things in these terms, but it really feels like it's the heart of all human behaviour. We do stuff to feel good, but the feeling doesn't last, so we have to do more stuff to feel good again. At least with being productive I haven't felt any diminishing returns. My to-do list doesn't need to get bigger in order for me to still feel productive. Wouldn't that suck?