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Friday, November 20, 2009

mj friday

today:

cars(half done)

cook (done)

housework minimums (done)

sign on to jc email(done)

fill out p 1 ew ap( mañana)

 

 

CI rightmeow 11:15 am

1. Shower

2. Feed dog

3. Lesia (9am)

4. Call Costco

5. Pick up meds

6. Fix lunch

7. Work on at least one outline (any class)

8. Remind B to do homework

9. Message D

10. Do at least one thing that you like doing.

Agnus checking in

Happy Friday! Thanks for the happy daystarter, Edge.  Today I have this schedule:

  • NOW: AH notes, draft agenda
  • 11am: prep for DR
  • 11:45 DR
  • 12:45 lunch
  • 1:30 EM call maybe
  • 2pm prep for Monday
  •        call Strlng
  • 4pm pause & pray: Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? 
  •        pause & pray: power to microburst bill basket, Inbox
  • 5:30pm walk dog
  • 6pm prep dinner

Two observations today: in Step 11 my Higher Power unveiled a joyful project hidden deep in my heart for which I felt great passion. I am SO grateful for this because I was mourning the loss of passion along with all the other losses of the past year. Grief is a long process of rediscovering reasons to live: first you just survive, then you begin to accept living, and now I find that, sometimes, you still get a glimpse of what vibrant and abundant life feels like. Thank you, God!

My second observation is that I often spend way too much time on this site!  But I love you all as dear friends and it's really good to get out of my own head sometimes by caring about what's happening with you. Thanks for sharing - and a special thanks to pro for being an instrument of God's peace.

re: Agnus.

"But I love you all as dear friends and it's really good to get out of my own head sometimes by caring about what's happening with you. Thanks for sharing - and a special thanks to pro for being an instrument of God's peace. " 

AMEN!

 

"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper

Agnus ending the work week - yay!

(Thanks, jo!)  Did fairly well today for a qualified PA-er:

  • NOW: AH notes, draft agenda
  • 11am: prep for DR
  • 11:45 DR
  • 12:45 lunch
  • 1:30 EM call maybe
  • 2pm prep for Monday
  •        call Strlng
  • 4pm pause & pray: Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? 
  •        pause & pray: power to microburst bill basket, Inbox
  • 5:30pm walk dog
  • 6pm prep dinner

My prayer-break is leading me to take the following actions for the next 24 hours: read enough AH to see how I can best be of service, go to the gym just for fun, have a nice hot bath, keep my commitments tomorrow morning and then do a little shopping and yard work. My Sabbath can begin when we go to a fun social event with friends late Saturday afternoon, and continue until after church and family time Sunday.  Talk to y'all Monday - have a great weekend.

Journey 10 am

I'm still not feeling my best, don't know what's going on there, I'm not sick but I'm not well.   Wasn't that a song lol?   So anyway, I'm going to continue working on the tedious Project P this morning, and see if I can get it completely finished.  There will still be some follow up and some work for other people to do, but I will have done all my research and submitted all my requests - and I'm gonna declare victory and this project will no longer be on my mind or my todo list.   By Monday I should be ready to tackle some harder tasks again.

Jo  

"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper

OCz TGIF

Thanks God it's Friday!

Yesterday was such a busy day I didn't had a chance to check in, mostly meetings. A good day though!

I commited wednesday to deliver a report today... which I have not yet started. It will be this morning top priority so I'll check in again later when I've managed to get some progress on it.

  1. Show up!
  2. First of all, make a stop and have a minute with God!
  3. @W
    1. Prepare savings report -> Breaking task in manageable pieces!
      1. Start the file!
      2. Review individual ivoicing history:
        1. Tmx
        2. Tcl
          1. lns
          2. bam
        3. Nxl
        4. Mtr
          1. lns
          2. Cnm
        5. Hp
          1. base
          2. click 
        6. others
      3. Identify potential savings on each
      4. Display in ppt.
    2. Later: Identify other tasks I could acheive today!
    3. Make correction in CAVC PO (wrong entity)
    4. @H
      1. Do something nice
      2. DIY - fix the door

kromer 9:40 CI

Today I have a lot of stuff to do, but it's all pretty straightforward (pretty much mindless lab and computer work :P )

I want  to:
*Finish genotyping, wean mice
*Do midiprep
*Finish computing correlations, see if I can get GSEA working w/ ANOVA
*Go to seminar (1-2)
*Organize papers, freezer, and lab nb
*Check on cells, make plan for transformations (turns out someone gave me the wrong cells, grr. But I'm going to borrow them from someone else on the floor, meaning that I can do my experiment in a week or so.)
*Help w/ youth group thanksgiving potluck

That's a lot, but I think I can do it. Right now, I'll try and pull my lab notebook together, then I'll do midiprep. 

 

Vic 11/20

 Showing up (done) Need to change my attitude before take off. I should be happy I have a solution, but I feel angry that once again, if you want something done right, you must do it yourself.

1. Listen to CLA meeting now 8:30 am, get out of self

I'm a great believer in luck,and I find the harder I work...
the more I have of it
Thomas Jefferson

Be  ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin J

 

AA Big Book (my "luck") Changes and new conditions are the inevitable result of living life, on life’s terms. (pg 85). The idea that what is now known is enough to deal with any new situation is an egotistically attractive but "erroneous false belief in personal omniscience". That "all knowing" quality generally gets reserved for an idea of "God". (pg 55). Old ideas may not always apply to new and different conditions. (pg 58). The desire to enlarge awareness of "the Great Reality" (i.e.: "God" - pg 55) is a personal desire for more "spiritual growth". (pg 60).

 

5 pm Really struggling today- family of origin issues and Thanksgiving, dealing with same old rejection, jealousy, sickness, target of judgement and hatred, and yet looking and wanting something that is not there,etc.was not invited to mom's,school issues dealing with crazy people who don't care about my son and are offended if I question their authority, tend to beat myself up for other peoples issues and shut down. Was using more food, but stopped, want to just shut down, but the truth is I grow when I don't shut down.Hope to walk and not get paralyzed. Maybe let son drive somewhere.Need to make gratitude list. Have this and other loop sites, have one son in home school doing 1000% better and now can opt to do the same with the other. Have a decent husband. Have health. Have 2 beautiful, wonderful, boys. Cat's paw is getting better. Personal relationship with HP.

 

Lucky CI

Awesome threadstarter, Edge :) 

Euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh! Spent this morning essentially staring at my work and having trouble breathing... rather a low point!

I've had an interesting time of it since deciding that I was scheduling and timetabling myself too much... initially fantastic results followed by slow collapse into a heap of chaos.

I think I went from feeling overwhelmed by too much structure, to feeling great, to feeling overwhelmed by the now shapeless, orderless, where-do-I-start mass of STUFF TO DO. I may be coming to the remarkable conclusion that a medium amount of structure is just right :)

I basically need to try and order things so I don't feel overwhelmed. I'm thinking my current plan looks like:

* Blitz one backlog at a time at work and one at home
* As each backlog disappears, put some time aside daily/weekly to stop it building up again!
* Work out some goals for myself and what I'm going to do towards them
* Try to keep in my head that THE STRUCTURE SERVES ME, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND and that it's not a standard of perfection for me to fail at, it's a way for me to make my life easier.

Lucky's remarkable conclusion

LOL, Lucky.  I love how we all can relate to these a-ha moments, when we get something that the non-PA world has somehow always known.  (HOW do they DO that, just know this stuff and have it work for them? grrr.)

CL daily overcoming

not as productive as i hoped this week.

step 2. only god can help me. that keeps getting more and more confirmed in my life.

i'm here, god, so help me.

ci :)
emerg only email & ck mtgs :)
quiet time :)
daily maint tasks :)
work plan :)
work

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the touch of the master's hand: http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/1898#comment-27748

"fall down seven times, get up eight" - japanese proverb

Hope-Faith CI 5:50

Good Morning All, and thanks for the thread starter Edge.

Well my week is not going the way I have planned it but I have accomplished a whole lot more than what I would have if I had not planned, and going into the weekend I have my goals set so it works.

 

 Task Check Off   T  T
 Swish & Swipe    Smile Smile Smile  Frown   
 Dishwasher    Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 
 Reboot    Smile Smile  Smile  Smile   
 Coffee/e-mail    Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 

Task  M  T  W  Task  M  T  F
PPT2 Smile Smile  Smile  Smile    PPT4 Smile Smile  Smile  Smile   
Plan2 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile    Email4 Smile  Smile  Smile Smile   
Email2 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile   Game4 Smile Smile  Smile  Smile   
Grades2     Smile  Smile    Plan4  Smile Smile  Smile  Smile   
PPT3 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile    Grades4       Smile   
Email3 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile    0degrees  Smile  Smile  Smile  Frown   
Game3 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile    Desk Smile Smile  Smile  Smile   
Plan3 Smile  Smile  Smile Smile               
Grades3     Smile  Smile               

 Action When to accomplish by  Check off 
Vaccume Wall 2 Friday  
Take Down Bed Friday  
Vaccume Wall 3 Saturday  
Vaccume Floor Saturday  
Clean light fixtures Saturday  
Cover Floor with drop clothes Sunday  
Tape Wood Sunday  
Frig Top Shelf Monday Smile
Frig Middle Shelf Tuesday Smile 
Frig Bottom Shelf Tuesday Smile

Frig Drawers

Friday  
Frig Drawers Friday  
Frig Door Friday  
Freezer Friday  
Take Pics of house Saturday  
Clean Top of Computer Hutch Saturday  
Clean Middle of Computer Hutch Saturday  
Clean Bottom of Computer Hutch Saturday  
Put out Christams on Computer Hutch Saturday  
Vaccume and Dust Friday   

Daily Declutter

Task  M  T  F  S  s
15 min clothes organization Frown  Frown  Frown  Frown       
Remove 30 Items Frown  Frown Frown  Frown       
Van Frown  Smile  Frown  Frown       
BS 5 a day Smile  Frown  Smile  Frown      
15 min taxes Frown  Smile  Frown  Frown      
Fold and Put Away Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile      
Load & Wipe Smile Smile  Smile  Smile       
Clothes Next Day Smile Smile  Smile  Smile       

Items to plan

  1. Type in test Smile
  2. Rubiks http://www.youcandothecube.com/cuber-corner/
  3. Organize folder for games

 

hope-faith

Hope-Faith CI 8:15

Thanks Lucky and I have fun doing it, fun make me more productive.

Task Check Off   T  T
 Swish & Swipe    Smile Smile Smile  Frown   
 Dishwasher    Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 
 Reboot    Smile Smile  Smile  Smile   
 Coffee/e-mail    Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 

Task  M  T  W  Task  M  T  F
PPT2 Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile PPT4 Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 
Plan2 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Email4 Smile  Smile  Smile Smile  Smile 
Email2 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile Smile  Game4 Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile
Grades2     Smile  Smile  Smile Plan4  Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 
PPT3 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Grades4       Smile  Smile 
Email3 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  0degrees  Smile  Smile  Smile  Frown  Smile 
Game3 Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile  Desk Smile Smile  Smile  Smile  Smile 
Plan3 Smile  Smile  Smile Smile  Smile             
Grades3     Smile  Smile  Smile         

Action When to accomplish by  Check off 
Vaccume Wall 2 Friday Smile 
Take Down Bed Friday Smile
Vaccume Wall 3 Saturday Smile 
Vaccume Floor Saturday Smile
Clean light fixtures Saturday Smile 
Cover Floor with drop clothes Sunday  
Tape Wood Sunday  
Frig Top Shelf Monday Smile
Frig Middle Shelf Tuesday Smile 
Frig Bottom Shelf Tuesday Smile

Frig Drawers

Friday  
Frig Drawers Friday  
Frig Door Friday  
Freezer Friday  
Take Pics of house Saturday  
Clean Top of Computer Hutch Saturday Smile
Clean Middle of Computer Hutch Saturday Smile
Clean Bottom of Computer Hutch Saturday Smile 
Put out Christams on Computer Hutch Saturday  
Vaccume and Dust Friday   

 

 

hope-faith

AWESOME CHECKLIST! I might

AWESOME CHECKLIST! I might have to try that :) I love anything that shows a sense of humour about this stuff.

re: awesome checklist

Yes it's quite inspirational and made me laugh because I read "Frig" as "F-ing"

Jo  

"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper

Edge's CI - 11:31am

Good morning :)
Came across a quote yesterday that really got to me:

How you spend your days is how you live your life

x 8am meds
x hmed 1
x bmd 1
- call M and cancel today?
- finish A assignment and submit
- do laundry
- kitty litter
- contemplation
- create list of minor tasks
- create med calendar
- bran
- bmed 2
- 4pm med
- go to gym and transfer account
- bmed 3
- hmed 2

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson

re: how

Great quote!  I'm seriously considering stealing it for my sig.

Jo  

"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper

Thanks, journey :)

And please, go ahead and use it :)

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson

Edge's CI - 4:57pm

x 8am meds
x hmed 1
x bmd 1
- finish A assignment and submit
x do laundry
x wash dishes
x create list of minor tasks
x create med calendar
x bran
x bmed 2
x 4pm med
- go to gym and transfer account
- bmed 3
- hmed 2

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson

quotes

Love your quotes :)

edge's quote on how

Love that, thanks, edge. It reminds me of something I heard in AA about Step 3: my will = my thoughts, and my life = my actions. In recovery we strive to improve these one day at a time, but it is true that over time, my cumulative thoughts become Who I Am, and my accumulated actions become My Life. 

Thank God for "one day at a time"! :-)

Thanks, rightmeow :D

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson