"We are always getting ready to live - but never living"

This is one of four boxes of parts being gathered for the soon to be engine rebuild.  I have parts squirreled away just about everywhere and some are a little hard to find.  Although it's welcomed progress, I didn't really plan out the engine rebuild coming together quite this soon.  I want it to happen but I'm not 100% prepared for it mentally.

I used to collect and play with Legos as a kid.  I enjoyed building things with the instructions that were included in the kits...and then just winging it and building things using my imagination.  I was fascinated with emergency medical vehicles so I built a lot of fire trucks and ambulances.  At some point, that crossed over into off road vehicles, and things got strange.  I spent the better part of an entire Summer building an ambulance that would survive a launch off of my bed-landing intact (and presumably, keeping the ailing passenger alive as well).  I didn't glue anything together - and honestly - what fun would that be?  When I accomplished that goal, I switched it up and built a scale tractor trailer with running lights, electric powered steering and propulsion.  I got a lot of Legos for birthdays and Christmas.  By the time I was 14, I had over 260,000 Lego pieces.  I only know this because three friends stayed over one weekend and, fueled by pizza and Coca Cola, we stayed up for two days straight and counted them all.  Putting Ferris back together, like some sort of mechanical (and expensive) Humpty Dumpty reminds me of all of those days I spent with Legos.  Having the pieces was sometimes more rewarding that what they created when put together.  I'm now at an adult cross road with all of these parts I've been carefully collecting/hoarding for the past three years.  It's been a challenge to find some parts and, honestly, I've enjoyed the challenge more than I thought possible.  Might be a reflection of the fact that I haven't had enough to do at work or that it's simply a great distraction from everything stirring up dust around the house...either way, the collection process is slowly coming to an end while the 'assembly' process is beginning.

It's happening.