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Old 04-04-2005, 12:10 PM   #1
Margaret Port Margaret Port is offline
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Moving house




Hi Kim and other non sleepers

I have to agree with Jean about the sleeping. deficit being detrimental to your health. It is also detrimental to your productivity and creativity as well and being overtired also makes you procrastinate and fiddle, doing mindless processes which don't add anything to the end product and cause you to make obvious mistakes. You don't want to paint fine detail because that requires concentration and that might cause you to nod off!!

I have some experience with the house moving caper, having done it 24 times in 30 years. Every time you pack up and move, your thought processes get disturbed. Things you were working on at the old house seem very unimportant, and you have yet to find a new direction at your new address. 5 moves ago I painted a series of icons on boards with oil paints, complete with gold leaf and lots of antiquing etc and I was very pleased with them and they were ready to frame. We moved and they were packed up in a bundle of paper, well padded and taped. 3 moves later, I remembered them and went searching for them (we hadn't unpacked all our boxes) Somewhere along the way they had gotten wet and moldy (the bane of my life in thte tropics) and I was so disgusted that I threw them in the rubbish. (3 months worth of work)....
Anyway my point is that if you are in the process of moving, you aren't going to be able to do your best work because your mind is on other things, naturally, so you shouldn't stress about it. but make sure you label your boxes!!!!

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Margaret
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