Thursday February 9, 2012

Hi, All, and good wishes for your day!

Again, today, I choose accomplishment in reality over escape, particularly in these ways:

• I choose to be free of the compulsive trance of doing online puzzles--I know that doing even one is one too many, because one almost never feels like enough.
  
• I choose to do my non-fiction listening only during chores or exercise or travel and before 23:15. 
• I choose to do my fiction listening only between 18:00 and 23:15 and during chores or exercise or travel. 
• I choose to read fiction by eye only after dance class and before 23:15. 
• I choose to experience silence after 23:15. I encourage myself to be in bed by 00:30, even if the lights aren't out. I want to have time to contemplate my priorities, first thing. I want the option of doing early-morning shopping for glasses frames. And I want to feel confident and organized as I start my day!

(Again, I did well with all of these except getting to bed by the target time. I need to figure out some better way of achieving that--setting a target and reminding myself of the reasons is not turning out to work at all reliably...)

My list for today:

Done (or Done Enough):
brush teeth, splint
take early pills
email check-in buddy
wrap up J2EE terminology change
update spreadsheet before noon
send rvw request to SMEs
shower, etc.
weekly status report and wiki updates before 17:00 (late but done)
decide when need next load of laundry done (warm load this weekend, I think)
order new phone holster
aim to leave for dance class at 19:15
15 minutes of Qi Gong
do a few minutes of lib book scanning
10 min clearing out (I'm just barely counting this one, for 2/9--I looked at mail-order catalogs for 10 minutes and did manage to recycle one, but put another one back on a to-consider stack...)

In Progress:
prioritize
P.A. ck-in and bookending incl clear-out report
analyze & send what's new info to D (mostly done, I think, but need her input before I can be sure--awaiting that)
contact E re photo show to see (left phone messages at two numbers)

To Do:
do at least 4 15-minute bursts of work on project A leftovers
use balancer
put my "inner monkey" to bed by 00:30

Hi!

7:30 up, walk puppy, feed puppy, eat breakfast, take caffeine tablet, check email & internet.

My floor is ~500 sq foot. Goal A: Sweep it. Not yet planning to pick up anything; just sweep.

9:05am. Puppy likes fun new game called Sweep the floor. Puppy "helps" Mommie by chewing on broom. Things are swept in a pile. Have picked up 50+ [small] items for trash or Put Away. Puppy is helping re-distribute pile for 2nd sweeping. 1st sweeping was my goal, anbd now I'm letting my hip rest for a few minutes. Progress can be seen, so I will decide what to do after resting :)

9:25am. Rested. Now will accomplish 20 micro-burst mini-objectives, then CI again.

9:45am. Did 20+ micro-burst mini-objectives, plus picked out 2 dolls to debox sometime later today as a reward. Soon will take puppy for another walk, but taking a mini-rest first.

10am. Stalled slightly due to male voices out in either the courtyard or my hallway. Workmen? Will go to bathroom, then take puppy for a walk. Will take out trash, too, on the way out ;)

10:20am. Successful Plan B of taking puppy for a walk and taking out 2 bags of trash, allowed me to see workmen are in the vacant condo down the hall. Much better than Plan A of peering out the door to see what was going on ;)

11:15am. Puppy insisted on another walk, but didn't do anything when we went outside ((sigh)). Back inside, I boxed up the holiday decorations from December ;) [did I mention that I'm a procrastinator lol?] Put tabletop tree in walk-in closet. Put 2 plastic bags over it to protect it from dust. Finally!!!! I really didn't think I would achieve this until my organizer lady makes her quarterly visit this Monday. Whew!!! :) Still have a ways to go, but that was another Victory!!! :)

11:24am. OK, it was a Victory lol, but now I am feeling the need for a nap. Down for the count. BUT I have achieved for today what I needed to achieve, so this afternoon, may only play with dolls before class, which will be ok.

4:25pm. Didn't sleep during nap, but had a good rest. After I got up, took puppy for a walk. Friend came over. Deboxed my dolls while friend was here. After friend left, played with dolls some more, then took puppy for another walk. Ate afternoon snack. Now it is time to take friend to dinner, then go to class tonight. Feel optimistic about Friday am.

Have a great day, everyone!!! :)

Recycler

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