I need the pressure

I need pressure to get things done. If I have oodles of time I waste it an accomplish nothing. If I have time pressure I crack on and achieve stuff.

I haven't achieved much scrapping this holiday and today realised I only have the weekend left so I have cracked on and made 4 paper pages today for the Austria album, my weekly for last week and this week  and one digital CT page so far.

YEY

So here is the page for last week - week 6

These pages are very simple, but they serve as a record of the year and, at the end of the year, I will either print them all or have them printed. Not sure which yet, as I was very disappointed in the ones I had printed professionally. We'll see,

The photo of the day is of homemade chocolate brownies - a half term treat - which we tried to tone down by using weight watchers thick cream. It really wasn't worth it. I would rather have had yoghurt to be honest. It was an odd texture, quite gelatinous and not at all like thick double cream. Still, you live and learn

 

Today I am thankful for

• getting my self into gear and actually scrapping instead of surfing for new aps and playing in forums.

and the one minute devotional page for today.

One cold early evening many years ago, my wife, Bartie, and I set out in our cabin cruiser for a picnic dinner on south San Francisco Bay. We waved to a college crew team heading out for a practice row, then proceeded down the channel toward the San Mateo Bridge. The choppy water soon turned into huge waves.

At the drawbridge, I signaled to the bridge tender to let us through. He shook his head, pointing to the whitecaps on the water ahead. We were about to take our pitching craft home, when in the distance near some mud flats, we saw a ruby-colored light glowing, shimmering in the shape of a cross. Bartie and I were mesmerized. We turned our craft in its direction. It was irresponsible of me—in shallow, muddy water an engine might suck up mud that can destroy it—but I felt compelled to follow the cross. Now mud was coming from the exhaust pipe, and the temperature of our engine had risen into the danger zone, but the light drew me on.

Then we came up to it, only to find that the light was merely a buoy reflecting the red sunset. Bartie and I felt foolish; we had actually risked our boat to chase a mirage.

“Look, the water is full of coconuts,” Bartie said. But they weren’t coconuts at all; they were the men from the rowing crew, whose shell had crashed into the bridge and sunk. One by one we pulled them aboard. They had been in the water for over an hour. Facing death, gulping the icy salt water, they had come to a point of desperation and had prayed together for rescue.

Comments

[Mary B]

Well done on scrapping your week, I'm really struggling to do them.

[Lizzie]

Yes, I am like you - if I have time pressure, I can achieve all sorts of things. With no deadline, I tend to drift along and get nothing much done. You did well to do four pages today - the page you have posted is really nice too.

I really like the series of stories you're posting - it's good to have something to think about.

[Paula - Buenos Aires]

I hear you on the deadline thing. :) I realized there are only two weeks left of our summer holidays and started working on my own projects again.
Enjoy your new phone! I´ve been taking pics with my iPod this week as we´ve been out and about.

[Jen Hart]

Beautiful devotion :)

I cannot do anything until it's due, drives me crazy but I can't do differently :)

[Jimjams]

LOL - I'm with you on being driven by deadlines - and I occasionally come a cropper when something else gets in the way at the last moment! Loved your LOLcat - so funny!

[Bev]

I had a fantastic photo book printed from Jessops. I chose a Photo Paper book and was so happy with the results. I think a full year printed in a nice thick book would look amazing.