Dreaming While Running

(me, working on my Rainy Day Camouflage cardigan over the weekend... it has nothing to do with my post today, lol... just needed a photo!)

There is something about my morning runs that really gets my brain going. Some mornings, especially when it is hot, I am not thinking about anything but making it to the next mailbox without falling over. On other mornings, like today, I can't keep my thoughts under wraps. They run wild. I think about every thing and any thing. Today, I felt like a kid on Christmas Eve. The eve of school starting = Christmas Eve, I can see that, can't you?

Much like a kid dreams about all the toys they will receive and the games they will play once they rip through all the wrapping paper, I was scheming in my mind about all the things I want to do with my time when the kids get back to school. TIME! Oh what a valuable thing it is. "Me" time is extra extra valuable. And I am going to get tons of it... soon.

Here is what I was thinking about while running...

* Make more beads... and have sets to offer up on my website at least once a week
* Make more art... and create prints of the pieces I make and make note cards of the pieces, and oh, maybe a calendar full of my mixed media pieces for 2010.
* Make more jewelry... and take my jewelry in a new direction. I am seeing changes coming.
* Learn new techniques and mediums... hmmm... maybe learning to make polymer clay beads to work in with my glass beads, what a match at would make. Can you imagine my "style" in bright playful polymer clay? (I almost can.)
* Go thrifting more.
* Pitch a new book to my publisher.(I have an idea already, I need to work on the designs to support it.)
* Read the back log of books I have bought but haven't opened.

I am sure there were others, but alas, I was day dreaming and sometimes they come and go so quickly, it is hard to hang on to them. What are you day dreaming and scheming to accomplish these days?