a new tradition

Tonight was mine & Rebecca's first Get Off Your Butt and Stop Procrastinating Night. While scrapping at Archiver's on Saturday we were talking about projects that for one reason or another we'd each been putting off. So, we decided to take action & hold each other accountable to at least work on the projects, if not completely finish them. My project has been a *long* time in the making. When I first started scrapbooking, I think 4ish years ago, I decided to do a wedding album. It took forever; mostly because I'd get bored & work on other things then go back to it. I finished the pages, oh I don't know, probably 2-3 years ago, but haven't ever put them in the album I bought. I imagine you can guess what my GOYBSPN project was. Amazingly enough it only took me about an hour to get the pages organized, in order, in the page protectors & into the album. Now why on earth have I waited so long to do that? When I was finished, I took the album to Chris and said, "Now that we're about to have our 10 year anniversary, would you like to look at our wedding album?". As I was working on it, I came to the conclusion that I may have to purchase a separate album for the reception pages; although, I if I can find the right page protectors I'm going to try and fit them in this album. I took some pictures as I was working:





We checked in with each other a couple of times during the night & were so proud to say we were making progress. We also discovered that just the knowledge that today was GOYBSPN we found ourselves tackling other projects we'd been putting off. I filed a stack of bills that had been paid and straightened the office a bit; she made some phone calls she'd been putting off. So, I believe we've decided to make this a weekly event. The projects don't have to be big, just something that we've been procrastinating. My father says he has the "spiritual gift" of procrastination, and sadly I think I've inherited it.

I think each week I'll post what I've worked on for GOYBSPN; yet another way to hold myself accountable. Would you like to join us in our new tradition? Just think of all the things you'll get done...