Life after the challenge

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So, today is the second day after the end of the Analogue Hobby Painting Challenge, I am therefore into my second day of withdrawal. For three months I have been living and breathing the challenge. If I wasn't painting I was prepping stuff to paint, if I wasn't prepping I was planning & thinking about painting. However, for the last two days I have not painted anything & for the last two nights I have woken up in the middle of the night thinking that I am running out of time to get stuff painted! When sleeping I dream that I am painting. I think it is a sign...!

So, throughout the challenge I was under a self induced pressure to produce. Whenever I was in my gaming room, I was there to paint and occasionally build stuff to paint. If something fell and I did not need it for whatever I was working on, then it would lie where it landed. If I was done with something it would be tossed aside to be picked up some time later. Worst was the styrofoam carving, for the most part it too just remain as ground cover to be tracked through the house. (boy does it cling)

Overall I was just too busy painting to be bothered to clean up my messes. It created an interesting obstacle course for me and anyone else foolish enough to dare enter my room. It provided a nice test of flexibility and spatial awareness as I pretzeled my way through my room being careful not to step on anything! It was like those movies where the spy has to avoid a laser grid to get to the treasure. 

I also had the challenge of finding places to put finished items, or space to work on new projects. Case in point, the mountain project required a lot of shifting and a lot of piling of stuff onto stuff into a teetering pile. The apocalyptic city board covered up my RPG stuff and forced my computer into another room.

Here is a video that reveals the horrible state of my room the day after the challenge ended. Be warned, it is not a pretty site...

Today is Tuesday and for two days now I have been working on my room in an attempt to reclaim it from the devastation that I wrought upon it. It is of course slow going, but I am channeling the energy that I devoted to the challenge into the challenge of cleaning my room.

Stay tuned for an update...ooh will he clean it or will he fester and wallow in his own wreckage?