Friday 5th October 2012

Having a very unproductive week!

Sister came to town and I had to clean up my pigpen of an apartment. It's not very organized. I have stuff in bags and boxes stored all over the place.

I need to go through the clutter to catch up on my income taxes for the past 5 years. Yikes!

I know that overall I get money back. I'm going to develop a schedule to do my taxes plus do my filing, recycling, shredding and reading for professional development from now to Xmas.

I have no idea how long it's going to take. I work part-time, go to school for 8 to 10 hours a week and am trying to develop a few contacts for my floundering business.

My employer will give me my schedule for next week tonight. Tomorrow I will develop a schedule for next week that gives me time to finish my volunteer newsletter, catch up on my reading for school (and possibly get ahead), prospect for new business and organize my files, closets, etc.

Work for rest of day:

• Finish writing article, Nov. 7 event for newsletter
• Look at movie listings
• Phone Roseanne
• Get ready for work

Hi everyone!

 Didn't have time to make a Friday list last night as I just fell into bed after a 14 hour today - the list has been really been

Prepare class

 Teach

Finish Horrible Admin Task

Finish things off Thursday list

 And the the H.A.T is done!! Hurray!!

:) catch up here
:) ck wk email
:) plan / sched
:) 8:30 am p.a. phone mtg
:) quiet time

"Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all" - 2 thes 3:16

:) 9:30am meeting
:) MIT wk 1 e
:) MIT wk 1 a
:) MIT wk 1b
:) MIT j 1
:) 11 am p.a. phone mtg
more...

God was with me today.

• finish planing.
• do all printing.
• meeting 1
• meeting 2
• tut.
• gym in home by 3.30
• meet r

For the past couple of days and for the next two weeks, I have been and will probably be in a circumstantial funk. I know this isn't real depression, mostly just anxiety and frustration over an event coming up in two weeks.

My first instinct for most of my life has been to try to pick myself up, buck up little camper, etc., etc. It was my husband who taught me a couple of years ago that sometimes you just need to sit in the emotion and feel it. So for the past day or so, I've been allowing myself the space not to smile and pretend I'm fine, the permission to plod through the items on my to-do list with only the minimum energy and enthusiasm needed to complete the task, and the freedom not to be perfect.

And I think it's actually working. I don't feel any better, but allowing myself to feel the funk has at least not paralyzed me for the next couple of weeks.

So here is what I'm going to accomplish tomorrow, slowly, grudgingly, and with lots of sighing:

6:30-8:45 write (breaks for breakfast, laundry, dw)

8:45-9:10 get ready

9:10-9:30 commute

9:30-4:45 work (breaks for lunch, email, to-dos at end of day)

4:45-6:15 run

6:15-10 evening routine 

Thanks, Mole, for the starter. I am looking out for the fresh start, which I think will be coming very soon.  

Thank you, O Mole, for starting the thread for us!

I'd prefer people not to offer comments here so that I can continue to edit the day as I go through my list. But if anyone has constructive feedback or encouragement to offer, please feel free to get in touch by private message. 

• Breakfast
• Shower and dress
• Change sheets on bed

Later

• Bring in cat litter
• Change cat trays
• Cat meds @ 1145
• Dust downstairs (10 minutes)

Then

• Clean kitchen surfaces (one at a time) (1 hour)
• Sweep kitchen (5 minutes)
• Scrub kitchen floor (1 hour - break it down)
• Personal statement for job application
• Wash sheets - take out, put around to dry

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin)