Journal de MrsTofu, 27 juin 14

My body is feeling really blah right now. What I am happy about is that I saw to completion the task and goals I had set for myself. (I spent about 12 hours over the past two days mowing my lawn...It desperately needed to be cut.) Something I don't like about myself is that I don't often finish big projects. It's been a character flaw of mine since forever, but today I persevered and finished the job. To help make maintenance easier and delay needing to cut the grass again so soon I determined to cross cut my yard. I had managed to mow the front semi recently, so it wasn't too tall, but some areas in my backyard could have been hiding small wild cats for all one knew. So I started with the back yard at the tallest deck height on my mower (it's an electric motorized push mower, I love it!) went parallel to the road and covered the whole backyard yesterday. I started cross cutting two steps down on height, but had to stop as it was getting late. Today I mowed the whole lawn walking perpendicular to the road. (Technically there is still a swatch of unmowed grass at the end of the property before our berry bushes, but DH told me not to worry about mowing that part, so I'm not.) I had been planning to go one more step down on height to cross cut just the front, walking parallel to the road this time, and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to follow through since I was already really hot and tired after getting about 80% done with the whole yard on the medium deck height setting, but I kept telling myself that the hard part was over since the grass wasn't savannah height anymore. Victory! I made it. My arms and shoulders may seek vengeance tomorrow, but I imagine I'll sleep well tonight. Huzzah!