As a photographer I feel I'm never finished becoming better at what I do.  I think we never are really.  There is always something new to learn, your style is evolving, a new subject to take, a new perspective to look at, a new place to explore....there's always something new for you to adapt to.  I feel like relationships are like that too.  Whether it's your relationship with God, your spouse, your child, your friends...it's always growing and changing.  This post is not about either of those things.  It's about unfinished to-dos.  I told Jeff today that I've never felt so busy and yet so unproductive at the same time.  The normal things that fill the must do list seem to take so much time.  Then there are those things that crop up once and a while that have to be done right then and there....or at least in the immediate future, and they take precedent over those things that we'd just like to do.  I have a list on my bulletin board of projects to do.  I put it in plain view to remember that even doing a little here and there would be better than putting it off indefinitely.  Some of them are house things....touch up paint throughout the house, paint the trim (something that we wanted to do three years ago), build a potting bench, yada, yada, yada.  There are a couple of things that are just for me kind of things, like sewing a skirt, which I've had the material and pattern for since Christmas 2010, and finish a quilt whose top has been put together since June of 2010.  All those things...house things and personal things are something that would not have taken me near as long before my life contained the most wonderful little girl ever.  Ada is worth not finishing all of those things for sure.  Still it just drives me crazy to think there are so many things that are incomplete.  I've made it a point lately to work on the list before it builds up so much that it's insurmountable.  I bought a can of trim paint.  That's something I can do a little at a time while my girl is taking her afternoon nap.  The first day I got through about three feet, and then I somehow managed to get my hair in the paint....what a winner thing to do.  At this point I've gotten a little farther.  I've painted and organized my pantry...completely...it's actually crossed off the list (Yay).  We have begun getting our garden in order for summer planting, and this week I've planted some things that should be ready early spring.  Those little things have made me feel much more accomplished.  There are days that I ask when will I have time to do the just for me projects.  The just for me things seem to always get left behind.  I do think eventually I'll get there.