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Monica's CI - 12:15 am EST
I think this is the first time I've completed everything on my list since I've been a part of this forum. It's amazing how the day ended considering how off track I was when it started.
Tadas:
[x] Shower
[x] Oral Care
[x] Dress to shoes
[x] Fold laundry
[x] Put away laundry
[x] Get boxes and bows to wrap presents
[x] Finish wrapping remaining gifts
[x] Get Christmas Tree
[x] Go grocery shopping
[x] Deliver gifts to friends (only one person was home, but I tried)
[x] Change sheets/make bed
[x] Sneak presents under tree once kids are asleep
Goodnight everyone,
Monica
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pro's last check-in - 11pm
I finished my bedtime routine - dishes washed, teeth brushed, etc. I even took my third dose of pills. I think my getting up at 6am today is related to the fact that I took all three doses of pills. I'll get up at 6am again tomorrow.
When I was a kid, morning was always my favorite time of day. I loved to get up before dawn and watch the sun rise, smell the early morning air. Maybe I'll enjoy it again, once my body gets readjusted to it.
I got through my bedtime routine by putting drops in my right eye every few minutes. I need to close my eyes.
ouch
My eye hurts closed, too - almost more. I think the lid is irritating the eyeball. The only time it doesn't hurt is for about 30 seconds after I put lubricating drops in it. I'm going to have trouble sleeping. :(
re:ouch
All this talk about your eyes is making mine water. Hope you feel better.
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pro's CI - 10:10pm
I just took out my contacts, and after I took out the contact in my right eye, my right eye began to hurt - a lot. It still hurts. I think my contact was dry and sticking to my eye, and I irritated my eyeball taking it off. Before I took the lens out of my left eye, I put drops in it and my left eye is okay. My right eye is very red now. I keep putting drops in it. No contacts tomorrow - that's for sure.
my eye REALLY hurts
My eye is bothering me so much that I'm thinking I should just go to bed and close it. It's getting late anyway. I didn't finish handling my pile - I'll have to do it in the morning.
Monica's CI - 6:45 pm EST
Tadas:
[x] Shower
[x] Oral Care
[x] Dress to shoes
[x] Fold laundry
[x] Put away laundry
[x] Get boxes and bows to wrap presents
[x] Finish wrapping remaining gifts
[x] Get Christmas Tree
[x] Go grocery shopping
Todos:
[] Deliver gifts to friends
[] Change sheets/make bed
[] Sneak presents under tree once kids are asleep
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Monica's CI - 3:20 pm EST
Hi Pro,
Sorry I didn't get back to the chat before you left. I went to get some boxes to finish wrapping presents. Thanks for doing the 15 min. challenges with me. I feel much better about the day. And I got a few things accomplished.
Tadas:
[x] Shower
[x] Oral Care
[x] Dress to shoes
[x] Fold laundry
[x] Put away laundry
[x] Get boxes and bows to wrap presents
Todo:
[] Finish wrapping remaining gifts
[] Get Christmas Tree
[] Go grocery shopping
[] Deliver gifts to friends
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pro's CI - 2:50pm
I started to work on my pile, but I'm getting distracted by emails between me and my brother. We haven't been getting along. I'm not sure if this correspondence is helping, or if we're just going in circles again. Right now I feel like we're going in circles. I'm thinking aobut taking a walk to clear my head.
You're doing, don't worry about how well
I'm going through a similar afternoon friend, and I can feel for you. Paperwork is bad enough for us, but when quirks involving others invade, thngs get wacky. I'm walking on eggshells with family stuff now, too. Someone told me to pray for them first. Then do the next right thing. Doing the next right thing takes only a fraction of time and energy than wrong things. I NEED to think about it alot today. Also when someone pushes your buttons, cut the wires. To paraphrase a book you probably have, "let them whirl". I'll be back later.
family difficulties
I wish my brother was in some sort of 12-step program. The way he responds to me is extremely unhelpful - it moves us backward, not forward - and metacommunication doesn't help because he doesn't have the vocabulary, and hasn't worked on himself at this level. His communication skills for resolving conflict on a personal level are so poor that it makes me wonder how his marriage has stayed intact. Probably he's worse with me. He has a very condescending opinion of me - sees himself as the well-adjusted one and me as the f-up (my traditional family role). Yet at this point, he's way more f-'d up than I am. I started off with problems, but I've been sober in AA for nearly 10 years and that doesn't happen without major personal growth. It is my observation that people with good sobriety in AA are far healthier on an emotional level that people who have never worked a program.
The arguments are awful and upsetting because I love my brother, but I can't get him to stop attacking me. He just doesn't know how to get off that merry-go-round. And yet I know he loves me, too. It's extremely frustrating. I don't want to be at odds with him and arguing all the time, yet I can't take his verbal abuse. I try everything I can think of to get him to stop, but I can't. When I try to reason with him, he just comes back with more verbal abuse or dismissive sarcasm.
My brother's idea of conflict resolution is to verbally abuse his "opponent" until they cave and concede he is right in all respects. That's not the way it works. Conflict resolution on a personal level has to be win-win. You have to exchange thoughts and feelings until you both come to a new, shared view of the situation that doesn't make either of you the "bad guy". But my brother has no ability to view a situation from another person's perspective, or to adjust his view of a situation based on new information. He sees this as "losing". It feels hopeless, yet I don't want to give up because he's my brother and I love him.
scarlett CI 1:22 pm EST
Finally! This is my last CI for a while, so everyone take care!
Already done:
Make/eat breakfast
Take pills
Scrub toilet
Look up recipe
Pay bills
Register for workshop
Sweep living room
Water plants
Get dressed
Put clothes away (10 min.)
Do dishes
Pack
To do:
Call parents
Pack car
Corral cats
Postponed:
Sweep hall & kitchen
Take out trash
good holiday
Have a good holiday, Scarlett!
scarlett CI 12:34 pm EST
Running late. Still doing dishes, arrgh.
Good morning, all. Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it and Happy Sunday to those who don't. ;)
Trying to decide exactly what I need to accomplish before I head over to my parents house.
Already done:
Make/eat breakfast
Take pills
Scrub toilet
Look up recipe
Pay bills
Register for workshop
Sweep living room
Water plants
Get dressed
Put clothes away (10 min.)
To do:
Do dishes (started)
Pack (started)
Postponed:
Sweep hall & kitchen
Take out trash
Monica's CI - 12:00 pm EST
Done:
[x] Shower
Next:
[] Oral Care
[] Dress to shoes
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Rexroth17.00 GMT
Todo today
up prayer and reflection
deal with emails and phone messages
wash whites and coloured towels
wash up and tidy up in kitchen
tidy clean move furniture in living/sleeping room
journal
prayer and reflection
bed and sleep
Regards Rexroth
Rexroth 19.44 GMT
I've got a fair bit done but I'm not finished and I feel just a bit down hearted about it. I've been on the internet and listening to the radio most of the day. I would have been better going out and exercising my foot.
Regards Rexroth
Rexroth 22.49 GMT
Well I've done a bit more and that's it.
Night folks Rexroth
pro's CI - 11:20pm
My spam rate has again doubled. I'm hesitant to crank up the server-side filter for fear of missing some job-related email. But it's a huge pain in the neck. I have to clear the spam folder a couple times a day.
There's only one rational thing for me to be doing right now, and it's my back accounting. I can't find the words to express how much I do not want to do my back accounting.
how to motivate yourself to do awful tasks?
I badly need to catch up on my accounting, and I have the time today to work on it. But I absolutely hate doing this, and I DON'T WANNA!!!! I'm trying to figure out what I can say to myself to get myself to do it anyway.
From where I sit, I have two choices today: Do something unspeakably unpleasant and upsetting, or do something diverting and fun. Diehard procrastinator that I am, that seems to be a no-brainer - screw the accounting. But I've got to change what I'm doing - this isn't working for my life.
I'd like some suggestions... What do YOU say to yourself when you have a task in front of you that's about as odious as they come, but is very important for your well-being?? How do you get yourself to do it?
an idea for getting yourself going
Now I'm answering myself. :P
I recall that the way I've gotten myself to do this in the past is to commit to a very short period of time to do the dreaded task - like 15 minutes. You can do anything for 15 minutes. I can set a timer, spend 15 minutes on the task, then check in here. After that, I might decide to do another 15 minutes.
Sounds like flylady to me
But I ain't mad at'cha.
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could be that's where I got it
:)
Monica's CI - 11:20 am EST
It's been an hour since my last post. I've played one game of free cell, read 15 emails, changed my account settings on PA.org, and ate 3 slices of left over pizza. Still no shower.
Here we go again:
[] Shower
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one game of freecell
You played ONE game of freecell? That's amazing!! That's like eating ONE potato chip! :P
LOL!
You're funny. :)
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maybe we can help each other
On a more helpful note...
Since we're both massively resisting doing what we need to do, maybe we can help each other. We can work in 15 minute spurts, then check in with each other. You want to try it?
I'm game
When should we start?
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okay, let's do it!
Haha... I was half hoping you weren't going to log on anytime soon, and I'd be off the hook.
Okay - 15 minutes. It's top of the hour (noon here). Let's check in again at quarter past. I will start the dreaded back accounting. What do you commit to do?
use chat box for this?
Maybe it would be good to use the Chat box for frequent check-ins. I'll log in there. Join me if you want!
scarlett CI 11:06 am
Already done:
Make/eat breakfast
Take pills
Scrub toilet
Look up recipe
Pay bills
Register for workshop
Sweep living room
To do:
Do dishes (started)
Pack (started)
Sweep hall & kitchen
Put clothes away (10 min.)
Take out trash
Lark's 10:35 CI
Good morning everyone. This week is a procrastinater's nightmare. Imagine, one week to finish 51 weeks' loose ends. Well, just for today:
Ta da:
coffee
bath, brush teeth
a couple minutes' reflection
heat workshop
To Do: (MORE COFFEE)
1 finish wrapping gifts
2 light house work
3 work a couple of hours in the shop on anything ths morning
4 focus for an hour or so on the major work project this afternoon
5 make a priority list for this week
Thanks, and good luck to everyone.
scarlett CI 10:22 am
Good morning, all. Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it and Happy Sunday to those who don't. ;)
Trying to decide exactly what I need to accomplish before I head over to my parents house.
Already done:
Make/eat breakfast
Take pills
Scrub toilet
To do:
Pay bills (started)
Register for workshop
Look up recipe
Do dishes (started)
Pack (started)
Sweep living room
Sweep hall & kitchen
Put clothes away (10 min.)
Take out trash
Monica's CI - 10:20 am EST
I'm feeling real sluggish right now. All I want to do is sit in this chair and find some way to escape my reality. I'm feeling overwhelmed with all I have left to do for the Holidays. But reading pro's CI have encouraged me to press on. But I am only committing to one thing at a time. After I do one thing I'll check in to say it's done. I will try to keep this up, hopefully, until my productive energy comes back. At that point (if it ever comes) I think I'll be better able to put together a todo list to post.
First Item:
[] Shower
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Your motto
Hi Monica
Thank you for posting your motto on your posts. I've been using it to get started lately, and it's helped to get a few tasks crossed off my list. Be well.
RE:Your motto
You're welcome. I'm glad it helps.
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pro's CI - 7:30am
Well, this is novel - sitting down to breakfast, already showered and dressed, by 7:30am.
sleepy
I'm sleepy. I went to bed at midnight and got up at 6am. I guess I need more than 6 hours of sleep. I need to try very hard to not take a nap today so I can get to sleep earlier tonight.
It's not very pleasant to be sleepy all day.
pro's first check-in - 6:40am
I meant to get up at 7am. I set my alarm for 7am. But the alarm woke me up at 6am because I never set the alarm clock back for standard time. I thought it looked a little dark, but by the time I realized it was 6am instead of 7am, I was already up. It's not so bad. I want to be somewhere at 9am, and 6am rising gives me time for a comfortable morning.