Don’t Feel Like it Days

The vacuum cleaner was plugged in, of course it required the unplugging of a lamp and an extension cord that no one actually knew where it went. Not too far from the wall socket, about a quarter of the way into the room, the vacuum cleaner sat idle. The task of vacuuming was started almost 2 days earlier, but never finished. There were other tidying up tasks throughout the home that needed attention, but they, like the vacuuming were not getting done.

Ever have a day where you simply don’t feel like doing anything especially menial laborious tasks? It invariably starts the second you try to get out of the bed in the morning. Sometimes brought on by late night TV watching. There’s always caffeine to get your motor running as people often say. But sometimes even that will not get the job done.

Every form of creativity is a task. Some of those tasks are more enjoyable than others. I for one, do not like cleaning paint brushes, and I have been known to let them soak in Gamsol mineral spirits, for longer than they should. Am I lazy? Probably. It needs to be done but I will stall as long as I can.

There’s many things in life we simply don’t like to do, but if nothing else, a clean house is a healthy house. And cleaning up your creative tools gives you the opportunity to re engage in the knowledge that they will be ready to go when you start a project, or…