External motivation
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darkemeraldsIt's been true all my life and I don't see it changing at this late stage: I'll accomplish things for a deadline or for someone else that I'll let go for years when I'm my only audience.
kis has several times expressed a concern that I'm overdoing the home improvement for their visit (in three days! Eeeeee!!!), but it's a fantastic motivator, and I'm not doing anything that didn't desperately need doing.
It's the back end of a perfectly splendid September Saturday, and I'm happily tired (and prophylactically dosed on ibuprofen), having sawed, spackled, chiseled, pounded, painted and pruned things that have been left undone for as much as ten years. Several of them seemed too difficult or too complex for me to tackle, but with the Magic of External Motivation® I suddenly found simple, obvious solutions.
It's like getting a new house! I hardly know the place.
kis has several times expressed a concern that I'm overdoing the home improvement for their visit (in three days! Eeeeee!!!), but it's a fantastic motivator, and I'm not doing anything that didn't desperately need doing.It's the back end of a perfectly splendid September Saturday, and I'm happily tired (and prophylactically dosed on ibuprofen), having sawed, spackled, chiseled, pounded, painted and pruned things that have been left undone for as much as ten years. Several of them seemed too difficult or too complex for me to tackle, but with the Magic of External Motivation® I suddenly found simple, obvious solutions.
It's like getting a new house! I hardly know the place.
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5/9/10 03:32 (UTC)Your house must be so nice now. :)
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5/9/10 08:26 (UTC)I have no idea what it means but I'm impressed!
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5/9/10 22:09 (UTC)Let me see...I know there's a different word for the same thing in the UK. Oh right, polyfilla...? Is that it? The white plaster-like stuff you use to fill holes and cracks in plaster walls? That.
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6/9/10 07:53 (UTC)Well, thank goodness for that. Because, as you can imagine, the tiny holes in your plasterwork being filled will be at the top of my US visiting priorities. :) See you tomorrow!!!!
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6/9/10 16:53 (UTC)You do realize of course that this home fixing-up stuff is All About Me, right?
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6/9/10 16:58 (UTC)I sincerely hope so, because if you're expecting that kind of treatment when you visit us, you're going to be sorely disappointed!
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6/9/10 17:12 (UTC)What time do you leave for the airport?
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6/9/10 18:52 (UTC)