…what you can do today.

Whose dumb idea was that proverb?

I have thoughts for alternate endings:

“Never put off until tomorrow…

…what isn’t due until next week, month, etc.”

…what you can mull about for six weeks.”

…anything you can drag out for much longer.”

Being a movie fan, I think one of my favorite straight-to-the-point versions of that original theme came from the movie “Kicking and Screaming” and we repeat it a lot: “Meat First.” (If you’re not familiar, it means to get the important stuff finished before moving on to the fun.)

I’m always open to good advice I can ignore.

“Keep an open mind.”

Today’s Where Bloggers Live topic is “the best advice you’ve been given.” The post was due at 6:00 am today, and here we are nearly four hours later and I’m still refining…so what does that tell you?

“Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent.”

Ouch…that was harsh.

How about “a bad excuse is better than none”?

I have been known to take “haste makes waste” to the extreme, I suppose. But fortunately my dear Mr has offered some very liberating advice to me in his latest mantra “…Don’t let perfect get in the way of great.”

That really took the pressure off the advice of my great-uncle Chuckie, whose favorite was “A job worth doing is worth doing well.”

And we go full circle.

Nearly all of these things apply, of course, to my current powder room renovation. I am tweaking and perfecting it to death!!!

For example, I changed out the new light fixture because it wasn’t bright enough and replaced it with another. However, that one hung a little too low and so I was compelled to raise the junction box three inches…which led to a small drywall repair endeavor, because as E.B. White put it, “There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.”

I have to confess, with ZERO humility, that it is the best DIY project I have ever done, IMHO (not the drywall, the overall). I love, love, love (times 10) the way it’s turning out. (Mr’s aforementioned mantra also greatly helped me finish the “memory lane” part of the project.)

All of my DIYs for the room are finished (yes, really). I’m looking forward to sharing it and have actually started writing my posts about it (“promises, promises”). However, we (aka “I“) made a last minute decision and decided to change out the vanity, which, of course, won’t arrive until next month. (Funny how I can live with my OWN delays, but I am impatient for any others.)

I guess, bottom line is, I am trying very hard to “get out of my own way,” but also “to thine own self be true.”

Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carol absolutely knew my type when he wrote Alice’s line, “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

There is one exception:

“Eat dessert first.”

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For more great advice to follow (or ignore), please visit

Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Leslie at Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After
Sally at Within a World of My Own  
Iris at Iris’ Original Ramblings
Bettye at Fashion Schlub
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style ( is on vacay this month)

Welcome to “Where Bloggers Live.” It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! 
Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes? 
The second Friday of each month is when this group of seven bloggers link up to share their workspaces, 
homes, towns… or whatever our fearless leader, the fabulous Bettye, proposes.
Make sure you visit everyone to see where the magic happens!