Tuesday October 6th, 2009

 Show up for my friends in PA before I change my mind (done).

Please do not leave advice.  Thank you.  Prayers welcome. 

It's not really 30 days of tooth-brushing.  It's thirty days of my brushing my teeth before sleep.  My new resolution was to start brushing and flossing and using listerine and doing my dental routine as a habit before bed, instead of during the day or whenever.  I figured I could do this, since I was finally able to get some sobriety from skin-picking.  Apparently not doing something is easier than doing it.  How interesting!  So tonight, after I eat ice cream, I'm going to brush my teeth.  Yesternight was day 1.

I made a fabulous realization at the healthfood store today: I need to eat healthy and I need to use healthy products.  No more of this, "I can eat cake, becuase that's all that's here and it's not that bad."  The following day, I had a migraine the size of the rock of Gibraltar.  Unfun.  Then I bathed in sea salt today and used some sandalwood soap.  It was fabulous and very relaxing.  It made my hair managable to bathe in sea salt.  Now I resolved that I would take some positive action by taking a walk and/or jog.  Right now it's midnight, so I'm going to take a walk.  I just LOVE the bath I had.  It has really helped me to feel comfortable.  After I use up this shampoo and conditioner, I'm just going to use shampoo and conditioner that doesn't have hydrofluorides in it.  I cannot stand any detergent.  I have serious allergies to perfumes.  I really, really need to go green, so that I stop having toxic health issues.  And I absolutely MUST get movement, everyday, no excuses.  In addition, I have to choose whom I spend my time with wisely, i.e. whom I call for outreach calls.

Hi Pro Buddies!

I accidently left gym bag at home this morning, got uptown, realized I didn't have it, came back home & got it. ((sigh)). In 5 years of working uptown, this is only the 2nd or 3rd time I have forgotten it, so no big deal. The rest of the day went comparatively ok.

At the gym, I did cardio, stretching & ab exercises. In the morning at work, I checked in with my boss who was returning from vacation. She was able to give direction on a number of things, + additional projects materialized. At lunchtime, I ate food I had brought from home, then did a couple emails to friends. After lunch, I began wading through the projects from the morning. I tried to do them in priority order, but had some obstacles. At the end of the day, I updated my priority list, and emailed it to my bosses so they can be aware of where we are with projects. For tomorrow morning, I Heavily Highlighted and Underlined the list and Drew Arrows, to try to get off to as good a start as possible. It could be a challenging day, so I will try to give it the best start possible.

After work: My schedule for the next 7 days is different than usual. Tonight I need to do as many chores as I can, because I won't have time to do any more until next Tuesday (at the earliest). I also need to email a friend tonight, so I will do that next, and also see what else I can get into ;)

7:25pm. I did 2 loads of clothes, the dishwasher is running, and I wrote the email to my friend. While I was thinking about doing more, really this is about good enough for tonight. I will read a little before time to go to sleep.

Have a great night, everyone! :)

Recycler

Recycler

Thank you, gals & guys, for being here! :)

OK, I gave lab meeting presentation. And I think it went well! My advisor was happy, at least.

I've been working hard on this for the past week, so I took an hour lunch afterwards. Now it's time to work.

Tasks for today are:
*Notes from lab mtg, retreat (will do this soon)
*Make buffers
*Deacon notes (will do this soon)
*Clean bench+lab area (working on this now, have made very good progress)
*Check phone messages, return any phone calls (will return phone call around 6)
*Find papers on Sertoli cell cycle (done, want to read some of them now)
*Bio colloquium 4-5

Lower-priority tasks:
*Student seminar website
*Look into Sertoli cell sorting
*Start pset

OK, I'll start w/ phone messages and notes from lab mtg, then I'll find papers and make buffers.

Hello, everyone.

Mrs. GS and I are back a day early from a long weekend getaway. It was a good time away, a happy occasion (the wedding of our nephew in what seems to be a delightful match), and also a time for me to think and ruminate about how I do what I do now and about some future opportunities. 

The most important thing to come out of the time I spent just contemplating is this: 

The various things that tend to distract me from my work during the day are not things that I want to or even should just banish from my life entirely. Rather, they are things that need to be kept in the proper time and place. 

For that reason, rather than just trying to completely abstain from them, they are best assigned to a particular time of day. Every day I'm blocking off the last 2 hours of the work day for those combination of Reading, Reflection and Research activities. (This is in line with the theory of the UnSchedule in The Now Habit.)

I have tried this before and it's worked, but I haven't kept up with it. So it's important to keep up with it.

I've come up with other kinds of scheduling ideas that I also believe will help, but the focus is going to be on this reserved RRR time for now. 

Today: Start on Project ENP. Work on Project U.

Update 5:42 PM

Managed to give ENP desired first read.

Progress on Project U as well.

See everyone tomorrow

~~

Want what you have. Be who you are. Do what you can. ~Forrest Church (1948-2009)

The Hero's Code:

Show Up. Pay Attention. Speak the Truth. Let Go of the Outcome.

Good morning, working at home today.  The day is moving along already, I sat down to check email and calendar and got an IM asking for help with something, so that got me going quickly.  Usually it takes me a while to ramp up.   Course I don't have my todo list for the day yet!

I have a 10 am meeting which requires some preparation so I hope I'll be done with this task in time to prep for the 10 am, then after the 10 am meeting I'll plan the rest of the day

Jo

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard

Today I am planning a different tack: I am going to focus on the things which continue to be in the way instead of on the daily routine and see whether I make more visible progress. That means putting things away (like the projects that sit untouched, and finishing up moving winter clothing, etc, instead of worrying about other routines which also need to get done. But, I want to ensure that I don't do more than one at a time, so today's project will be..... dealing with the dining room table, specifically the transitional clothes and linens which have been in and out of a plastic box not finished. This feels a little funny for me, because my older son is living away at college and I don't want to take his empty dresser, but it would be very helpul, at least for the short term. Asking God for direction today, You can drive the bus.

peace.

asking for help to do the next right thing

Hello!

I woke up VERY early (for me), so I just decided to stay up and get a couple of the things done that I did not get done yesterday.

Why did things not get done.  Computer video games.  Go figure.

On a serious note I think I just have to admit my powerlessness here, over computer video games.  I can't pop in for just one game.  It is a true compulsion with me going back for more every half hour or so after I stop.  Ugh.  I don't want to admit that I am powerless b/c I don't want to have to stop.  But at this point it is a choice between that and almost everything else that is good and sane in my life.

I have some amount of control when I play Spider SOlitaire at my friends store where I help out twice a month.  I think I can limit it to that, but it that just fooling myself?

Ugh.

Anyway, showing uo!

J