Goodbye week.

Friday is upon us!  Run!  Run for the hills!

No, don't do that, it's cold out there.  Stay inside where it's warm.  Anyway.  The week is coming to a close and it's quite exciting.  I have a gig tonight, no obligations tomorrow and a party to go to on Sunday.  All in all it sounds like a pretty good weekend.

Although the holiday juggle is fast approaching I'm a little relieved right now to have a little less on my plate.  November got to be a bit of a cluster with all the things I ended up getting involved in.  A musical, out of town work trip, two gaming groups, quadcopter planning, Thanksgiving, Warhammer tournament and most importantly spending time with the wife.  It was a busy month indeed.

I just can't help but get myself bogged down with tons of hobbies.  I just love doing so many different things.  It would be weird if I only did one or two things but it would probably be good to do so for awhile.  Right now it seems like everything is only quarter finished.

I started working on a book last year and this time I was doing it right.  I got a planning book and started doing all kinds of outlining.  It's a fun book completely outlined but I still haven't set aside the time to actually write it.  Instead I started writing a different book for some reason that is a few chapters in and going fairly well...except that I haven't touched it in almost two months.

I really like writing but on the other hand I really like playing music and after joining a band last spring it has has really opened up my opportunities to play.  It's only one gig, maybe two a month so it's not the biggest time hog.  I worry however about getting offered too many side projects.  The musical was a fun side-project but it was quite draining.  Doing the musical of course led to talk of other projects.  It's a strange phenomenon that happens when new musicians get together.  You start sharing your similar interests which of course leads to how fun it would be to do a certain project.  So there's a couple new ideas in the works that will be fun but time consuming.

This doesn't sound all that bad except that all this playing time has taken me away from the music I was writing on my own.  I was making some good progress on some new songs and having fun writing some soundtrack music.  Much like the book I haven't touched it in ages and I keep wondering when I'll get back to it.

Then there is the gaming.  Gaming is an exciting creative outlet for me because it combines so many of my interests into one activity.  I can design a world but I don't have to write the book because the players drive the plot.  Additionally I get to invent equipment and weapons for the game to tickle my inventive side.  Then there is the fun of creating game materials for the players which is just silly fun.  Writing entire letters with old-style dip pen on parchment paper is really fun for some reason.  Plus I'm seriously considering penning an entire source book by hand with dip pen.  Silly...yes.

Those are just the major things I enjoy doing which makes for quite the busy week indeed.  Throw in that I have a house that needs renovations, full time job, snow to shovel and a wife that would like to see me once in awhile and it gets to be a little crazy.  I'm not complaining, maybe a little, but not really.  I'm just taking a step back and realizing that maybe I should cut out a few projects for awhile and get something done for a change.