A project a month?

I have mentioned that I'm crazy, right? Because I think I'm reminding myself of that right now. For whatever reason, despite all the stuff I'm trying to do and make and get done this year, I want to have a goal of finishing one project every month this year.

There are good reasons for this. One of those reasons is that I'm particularly bad at finishing things. I happily start new hobbies, new projects, new ideas, whatever, and then attack them furiously in the first few days, weeks, or sometimes months. But after that, I start itching for something new, and the project I had started before falls aside, and is gradually hidden under a mountain of "Other Stuff I MUST Do". Before long, the project is completely forgotten about until I do a kinda-yearly clean up and find it again. "Oh yeah! I forgot about this! This was so cool, why didn't I finish it??" And then the cycle starts again.

There could be some badness about this whole thing though. I mean, I can't get around the fact that I will come face-to-face with my own bad habit of not finishing things. But the chances are good that when I do my kinda-yearly clean up (which is way, way overdue - by a few years or so?), I'm going to be faced with far more projects than I can possibly finish in a year. I'm going to discover a lot of projects that stopped because of, most likely, boredom. I'm also going to find stuff that wasn't finished for a good reason. I get the feeling a lot of the video games I wanted to make will fall into that category, tagged with "because I don't have the skills yet".

But, on the upside, I've already gotten started. I finished making a baby blanket for a friend in January (which will actually get to them eventually, honest!). I'm not even halfway into February and I'm nearly finished with a shawl I'm knitting, and that definitely can count as my February finished project.

I suppose what I'll have to do now is to go through everything in my house and computer, and make a list of all the projects I started and never finished. Once I have a list, I can try to sort out which ones will be quick finishes, which will take me forever and a day, and which simply are not going to happen. I like lists. You know, when I don't misplace them. Which is... erm... always.