"Do More; Want Less"

10 days until the European trip and the main water line to the house is busted. If it wasn't for the fact that the line was built in 1981 when there was no water on this road and that a private line had to be run over 1/4 of a mile, and part of that line is now under the county highway (i.e. the part that broke) it wouldn't be so ill-timed. As it is, I will have to wait on the water company to install a new meter closer to the house, then pay the plumber to connect us back up, and all this while working most of the remaining days (mostly at night) until the trip. I'm already tired!

And the reason for the title is simply that it is my new mantra. All those years of buying and wanting freely have left me so deeply in debt that I am working to pay my debt rather than working for my future. The line can be interpreted several ways as in 'want less things' and 'do more with what you have' and 'spend less time wanting material objects' or 'spend less time wanting to do a thing (such as writing), and more time just doing it.'

It's a slow process to learn that wanting a thing is not the same as needing a thing.