Bored, busy and back to lifting

I found this last year about August. At the time I thought it was just a little bit of laziness that kind of creeps into the end of summer. Of course last year it actually felt like we'd had a summer. Starting school was very new, and I was kind of looking forward to it. I assumed that this year I'd be working in the summer (didn't work out that way). Last summer I made a point to do any major tasks (building shelving in the garage, redoing the garden in the back). So this summer has been fairly quiet.

So, I'm a little bored. The nice long walks kind of helped for a while, but I'll admit that I really like exploring new places. So once I've say walked down to the lake it's not so interesting to do it a second time. With the eye of the round roasts on sale finally (at a price I wanted to pay) I now find myself a little busy. Nothing like making around 18 pounds of meat into beef jerky to keep you doing things. However, it has its moments when you're busy, but mainly you wait.

Back to bored I suppose.

In the next four weeks I'm hoping to accomplish the following:

- can 21 quarts of peaches
- make maybe 21 quarts of salsa, and perhaps another 7 quarts
- make jam (only probably have jars for one batch, freeze fruit for others)
- do at least one roast (in freezer) for lunch meat
- maybe smoke another pork loin (in freezer) for lunch meat
- get two pairs of pants shortened (someone else doing)
- alter at least a couple more tops to wear in fall
- register (Monday the 10th) for classes with a decent schedule
- visit college to get parking permit, student card, books
- get a backpack and a few clothing essentials (underwear mostly)

It's not the long of a list, and there's a lot of smaller tasks that I didn't bother putting on it, but some of it shows a 'push it off' kind of attitude with the exception of the two college related items which I can't actually do until next week anyway. The peaches and the tomatoes will depend on the date that they're available. I just don't feel all that motivated to do any of the list.

The good thing that happened this last week is that I went back to lifting. I feel a little like I'm weaker than I should be, but we'll see how that goes. I'm doing Power Training which is nice in that it prescribes the type of exercise you should do (ie. horizontal pull) and you pick the actual exercise (ie. bent-over row). I find kind of mediocre about the workouts but I think that's because of the general lassitude I seem to be affected with. It could be the weather, probably is. Today it's cool and likely to rain. Tomorrow the temperature will jump 10C (18F) and thunderstorms and tornado warnings are forecast. All I'd like is one hot, sunny week, even though it means I'll have to spend hours watering... I'll take it!