Finishing What You've Started

One of my worst habits is beginning a project and failing to complete it. I become distracted by other tasks that call for my attention then I forget about what I was doing before. In my spare room, I have two or three projects that sit unfinished and collecting dust. I have my genealogy research project that is an ongoing labor of love and will take years before it is ever completed. I have also been compiling family photos, which compliment my family research. The third project was initially begun as a way to entertain my friends via internet but started to take on a life of its own. It is a ghost story which now languishes in purgatory like a real spirit in a little cubby at my computer desk. I currently have about nine pages of text, but it would be much longer than that by now had I kept up with it. Being my first attempt at story writing, there's much room for improvement, but my intended audience was pleased with my work all the same. I was in the middle of the story when I learned that we would be moving to Texas. I had to drop the story and focus on preparations for the move. I've never gotten around to returning to my tale. I admit that I was having fun doing the third project; I love to write fiction, and ghosts are my favorite subject matter. I keep telling myself that I need to finish what I've started, but I always find other things that need attention: dishes and laundry needs washed, my son's school gear needs to be readied for another day, etc. My distractions are many. Of course, I'm also a classic procrastinator and always have been, so that trait doesn't help any. Perhaps like this blog, I need to make myself get into the habit of spending a short amount of time on it each night.

All of us have some sort of unfinished pet projects sitting around. What's your unfinished project, and why does it remain unfinished?