I laughed my way through David’s posts about “dreaded” tasks. He and I both share the trait of wanting everything to be “perfect” and thus we procrastinate the project while dread builds up regarding whatever the project may be. We’ve learned that one way to battle this sort of procrastinating is to simply load up our plate with so many things to do with tight deadlines that we’re forced to act quickly; otherwise nothing would get done. That’s worked for us so far.

On the Mahdee project, we’ve a million and one things to do before re-launch this summer. Most of the dreaded tasks aren’t nearly as bad as the dread that we’ll somehow mess it up! Of course, MY dreaded task for Mahdee is cotton caulking the hull. I’ve spent at least the last 5 months dreading this. I’m about to have to start tap, tap, tap…hammering in that cotton very soon. John has been fairing the hull (exhausting work) and took a break last week to work on the rudder. He’ll be finished with initial fairing this week and then I’ll have no excuses but to take on my own “dread” and start putting in the cotton.