So many choices … or not …

Today is Friday. I'll be on my own -- all alone -- this weekend; the first time in well over a month I haven't headed north when I'm childless.

So, thanks to the choice I made earlier this week, I won't be doing that.

I also get to choose whether or not the following photos illustrate my just desserts for – oh heck, fill in the transgression of your choice – or an opportunity to really dig in and get some serious Home Making done.
 

I could choose to relax in front of the fire in my living room ... 

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." ~Stephen Covey

"There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil." ~Vincent van Gogh

Or curl up to watch a DVD in the sanctuary of my room ....

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." ~Wayne Dyer

"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice." ~Maya Angelou

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." ~ J.K. Rowling

"We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life." ~Albert Bandura


Or maybe I'll spend some quality time in my sewing room!
 

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices" ~Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods" ~Charles Caleb Colton

"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering" ~Madame de Stael

"When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage" ~Jewish Proverb

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." ~Gary Collins

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice." ~Steven D. Woodhull

Or ...perhaps I would choose, instead, to work my way through this stack ... but that would hardly be considered housework, would it?????

"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on." ~Stephen Sondheim

"Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement." ~Alice Koller

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise." ~Robert Fritz

"The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped." ~Robert Fritz

"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices." ~Deepak Chopra

"It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice." ~ Epictetus