I need some motivation.....

So the BIG 2014 project is getting our totally unfinished concrete hole of a basement in functional condition.  My biggest wish is that by this spring, in tornado weather, we can sleep down there & actually SLEEP vs. me laying awake all night in a worry we won't wake up on the 2nd floor for a tornado siren.

There are a couple Jeff size projects that have to get done before I can dig into much of anything.  A) Building a few walls, taping, mudding, sanding, etc.  B) Going through & cleaning up all the extra wiring on the ceiling & C) Running new wires to get some of the existing lights on different switches & add a few switches/lights to get the lighting arranged in a way that it works with the layout we are hoping to achieve down there.

We spent an entire day down there already cleaning up spiderwebs, cleaning up the spray paint mess I've made as I've done other house projects & sorting through boxes & boxes still packed from our move 1 1/2 years ago.  Actually some of the boxes are still packed from 4-5 years ago when 3 newborns invaded our life and 1/2 of our old house had to go into storage.  I've got a garage sale pile building.  And things sorted & re-packed a lot more organized so when the basement is done & I want decorations for down there, they are safe & ready to go!

It was kind of like Christmas down there sorting & finding things I literally had not seen in 4-5 years.  I actually got decorations up in the hallway & office!

So here's my current conundrum.

It's winter & cold & I need a project.  Its going to be a bit before I can start painting & painting & painting in the basement.  But I need something to do for the time being.  Most of the projects we have left are bigger.

1. The Kitchen:  Which will cost me more $$ than I can spend right now
2. The Master Bed/Bath:  Which will also cost $$ as we are in need of new bedding.  And I have zero ideas as to what I really want to do in there.
3. The upstairs hallway storage closet & dresser:  Which really I could probably rock out in a couple of days, other than that I want to sand & paint the dresser & given that my paint nook in the basement is no more, that has to wait until its warm outside.


There, of course, are bits & pieces of all my other projects with loose ends that need tied up which is what I SHOULD be doing.  But seeing that basement & wanting to dig into that big project, my mind is having a hard time focusing on all those scattered little things.  I need some motivation to do THAT!!  Also because I know if I dig into a big project now, I will get done half-ass because its just passing my time until I can get to the basement.  And because we can't put $$ into 2 big projects at a time.

Instead, I'm sitting on my butt, blogging.
But what I really want to do is paint the kitchen!!!