Today at noon I had finished all of my to-do tasks for the day.  There are some thing on next week that I can start working on...but nothing I'm really prepared to do at this moment.

This is strange, and I find myself wondering what I will do with myself.

Mostly I am wondering this because I need things to distract me.  If I am not distracted I sit and fret about all the things that could possibly go wrong in the next few months.  I start cataloging my planned response to each and every potential problem.  Then I catalog my responses to the next-least-bad set of problems.  And then I start listing all the things I can be doing *right now* to avoid these future potential problems, and debating whether the problem is likely enough to happen that I need to actually implement those changes *right now.*  And then I decide I'm already doing everything I can do, so I start worrying about the problems again.  Wash, rinse, repeat.

In short, I am driving myself CRAZY.

There have been many video games and movies in the last week, because when I am thinking of videogames and movies, I am not fretting and worrying and cataloging possibilities.  There's also been quite a lot of writing and cleaning and planning.  I suppose I could always spend the rest of the day writing, but I've already reached my goal for today, and I really need to think about characterization stuff over the weekend before I jump into the next few things.

But I need to be busy.  I really, really need to be busy.   And not just social busy but task-that-requires-my-whole-brain busy.

At least I have roleplaying tonight.  That'll distract me. 

And this afternoon I'm going to figure out how to put lapels and a collar on a coat whose pattern does not call for a collar and lapels.  That'll occupy my brain for a while.

*sigh*