Keeping Busy

My objective was to have a daily routine, much like I did when I was working....you know, get up early, make coffee and read the paper before showering and getting ready to go to............OK, so I don't have anywhere to go.  So what do I do instead of going to work?  I don't knit,  don't like working in the garden (too hot, bugs and it gets my hands dirty), and I can't figure out Sudoku (although I used to like crossword puzzles, but it's been so long, I can't even remember a four letter word for Ireland).

Brian, standing,
l to r,  Matt, Hal, Steve & Gregg

I decided to take on the gargantuan task of going through and sorting all those endless boxes of photographs, sorting them and making albums for each of our five sons.  I set up a craft table in the computer room, and began to sort....and sort and sort and sort :(  Why do we need 2 pictures of everyone and everything, including the grass and some unknown person? Okay, that goes in the trash, as do hundreds of others.
I have finally narrowed things down and I now have separate boxes for each of the boys, and labeled accordingly...Steve, Hal, Brian, Gregg, Matt...and I begin the process of now going through the pictures, once again, and putting them in their proper box.  I was beginning to feel like a mailman, putting all the mail in their little appropriate slot.  I diligently worked on this project from October through November, when I had to put it aside for the holidays.  I was only able to manage getting  Brian's album finished in time for Christmas. The rest would have to wait until after the holidays.
Right after the holidays, I started back in with the project, although not with the same enthusiasm as I had in the beginning.  Nevertheless, I was able to finish Hal's and gave it to him when we visited Chicago in the summer of 2009.  But that will be another posting, another time.
I still haven't finished the albums for Steve and Matt....Gregg took his box of photographs home with him, so I guess he will be making his own album :)
And I was worried about not having anything to do!