The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

If you know me... you realize that I can have dramatic bursts of motivation. I don't care about something until suddenly I do... and then I care A LOT. When I'm focused on something - I want it to turn out the way I want it to turn out and nothing less than perfection is acceptable. It's this slight streak of ambition that has got me very far in life, I think.

The problem with improvement, for me, is that when things get better I tend to focus on the things that still need to be improved. I'm never happy; always striving for perfection.

This happens a lot with my weight, unfortunately. I don't care until all of a sudden I do; and that's when you find me working out 12-14 times a week. (Not the point of this post but this is sort of happening now - be on the look out)

Today's nagging things that needs to be perfected? My living room.

I found paintings that I absolutely loved on Overstock.com, so I went ahead and bought them. They arrived today. I love them just as much as I thought I would; which is to say it's practically a love without bounds.

So we can go ahead and label the paintings as:

THE GOOD


Improvement needed: None. I'm very happy with this.

The BAD


Improvement needed: New coffee and end tables are needed as soon as I can possibly afford it. I'm going for a very modern living room and these tables stick out like a sore thumb! They don't match at all. The tables... they need to go. I have a few ideas in mind for tables, depending on price, but the tables will be black. I've already mentally re-arranged the missing pieces of my living room many times, but now I'm pretty sure where they are going to go. It's going to look incredible when it's finished... in 2011 (or never).

THE UGLY:


Improvements Needed: Um, paint the eyesore board? To be perfectly honest, I'm not even clear how this unpainted board lasted so long when all the rest of the molding and trim in the room is white. I guess when junk is surrounded by junk - you don't tend to notice it as much. As it begins to be surrounded by nicer things, it starts to stick out. Needless to say, it's getting painted this weekend (second weekend in a row that I'm painting - oh my word).

Hopefully I have some time to obsess over these improvements. I'm trying to rid myself of distractions and focus on nothing but constant improvements in all aspects of my life for the next 3-4 months.

(Yet I'm talking to girls already - oh Mike, will you ever learn?)