I enjoy tinkering with odd jobs around the house.  Building this, repairing that, replacing those, painting these.  (Almost) nothing is more satisfying than stepping back from a job well done, admiring the job well done, and saying "That's a job well done."  Or so I'm told… maybe someday I will experience this for myself.

You see, there is usually a lot of work between starting a job from the job jar and that gratifying moment when you can step back and admire your handiwork.  It's the stuff that fills that portion of the project that I often have difficulty finding the gumption to work on.  And even at that, it's only the final 10% that eludes my attention.  I know what you are thinking… he's a lazy son-of-a-gun, eh?  No, that's not it.  I have all kinds of energy to start another job before the last one is finished.  I have gobs of odd jobs started, material purchased, and plans made for projects that won't see progress until I get around to it.  Round tuits are rare around these parts. 

For instance, I built a deck shortly after we bought our house in Moncton, but never finished the stairs going to the back yard…  That same deck a year later still doesn't have the stairs finished.  My intention was to build stairs that would get wider as they got closer to the ground but I didn't get "round tuit".  Finally, after three years, the job got done.  I have many other jobs that have followed and probably will follow that same pattern.  My wife can testify to that.  (Yes, darling, I'll reattach the baseboard in the living room that I detached while doing the hardwood six years ago when I get a round to it.)

In my experience, round tuits are equally hard to come by when they are needed to start other initiatives such as diets, exercise regimes, and other self-improvement resolutions.

Current To Do list for incomplete jobs:

• Nail down baseboards in living room (after hardwood flooring job)
• Refit baseboards in kitchen entrance way (after flooring in kitchen)
• Remove carpet on stairs and refinish (after Rec Room reno)
• Build cupboards in storage room (after basement reno)
• Put ceiling up in storage room (after basement reno)
• Put shelves in cold room (temporary ones in place now)
• Fix bedroom door (it rubs on the frame since the carpet was laid)
• Clean and organize shed (my wife hates this one!)
• Complete walkway in back yard (I borrowed a concrete form a year ago!)
• Learn the guitar (I bought a guitar 2 or three years ago)
• Learn French (I bought "teach yourself french" CD's two years ago)
• Complete the rest of this To Do list (I'm too embarrassed to continue on-line!)