Ways to keep from shopping and procrastinating on kitchen cleaning to boot

I looked at my bank balance and one that had felt full, was now looking rather lean. I wanted to go shopping and a trip to another city was even mentioned but most meals made me feel icky. I have decided to link my stomach to my wallet and realized that it kept me from shopping. That is a good thing, even though I really did want shorts-ha!

Of course, since I needed to recuperate, I read magazines and did not attempt kitchen pick-up. Wallet 1, house 0. This is probably the best outcome, but the kitchen floor might beg to differ.

Done:
I did finish a book, a few magazines and more laundry. I also watched The Closer-good stuff. I was so glad to see that the teen-ish actor who is always playing crazy got to just be gay and not crazy, progress?

A recycling bag is also full and I'll take it into the office tomorrow. I also sorted some miscellaneous papers, so my conscience should chill on "what else could have been done."

Work in progess

I have to laugh, because work has become perpetually in progress and not progressing. I have to think that momentum in one area of life will kickstart the others. If not, I think I'm turning into a major sloth.

It was a distressing week and now that I own up to that, I need to organize my work time so that it gets more purposeful and fast. I don't want to be all snarly about work issues, because first of all there's some privacy issues to skirt and this is about my me time and work is kind of an everyone else time, you know?

Well, I'm hoping to work it out some next week and not be so on the sidelines in my head.

10 Things Target

Being an avid shopper/consumer, I inadvertantly found a way to curb my spending today. I had returned something and the clerk mentioned that I could checkout there if I had only ten things. The speculative shopping list I had brought was much longer than that, but in the interest of speedy cko, well, ten it was! I slashed my list considerably and wound up with I believe a grand total of eight items (thoroughly confusing the new person behind the customer service desk, but that's okay) and less damage overall to my wallet.

So, my realization was, if I told myself I should keep my items to 10 (I might crank it up to 20 if I am in grocery land) wherever I went that would be a timesaver and monetary saver to boot. I realize that many items fall into wants and not needs, but this probably allowed for a little bit of fudging about really needing granola bars, so I won't be too critical about it. I will be proud of my value pack granola bars and enjoy them on our TX roadtrip happening in about three weeks!

Other things: enjoyed cleaning out a bin, and did an excellent round of errands (pool, pharmacy, dry cleaner, library, post office) all before 1:00 PM. The post office visit allowed me to get those Star Wars stamps-beyond the best stamps ever!!!!

Also found my card supplies, yeah!!!!

off to vacation

On vacation for a few days, think I did some of what I intended before I left. Will think more witty thoughts about everything I am trying to accomplish next time. There's some conflict in my wiring between organization and the breakdown of adhering to any of it. I also know I shouldn't be too hard on myself, because there are a lot of things going on. Super attention to detail and art and craft should be followed by complete inattention?

It's not that bad. I will see what a break does for my skills.

Multi-task gone sloth

Was it the Wednesday? the power outage? the tiny bit of laundry gathering in the morning? My sum total for all projects, personally and homestead-y were pretty much nil today.

To reframe, I could say that with so much attention and progress in the past days, I couldn't keep up such a pace. I did finally get Jesus is Magic is watched, so wait that does qualify as a move ahead in project land, because watching titles that I have on endless checkout is one of the things I should list. Positivity reframing reigns. With the weekend traveling almost upon me I need to either make hay tomorrow OR let the slothdom reign completely. Maybe making so many lists is not the way to motivate myself, but here is hope in the eternal quest.

Goal for tomorrow: watch Dark City and finish wedding book, nice combo

The good thing about coaxing the cat out of the great wild backyard

I found a new task-picking up other folks cigareete ;) butts in our backyard. While coaxing kitty, I'd look for this particularly annoying trash. This adventure gave me a chance to remember the backyard was a whole other listable area. I think multi-tasking through all possible moments will be the key to overall project completion glory. Of course, I appear to be taking the night off after this multi revelation by eating tater tots and enjoying rerun Veronica Mars. So multi-task motivation is what I'll be acquiring . . . starting tomorrow.

Morning exercise streak does continue-hoorah

Lost cat lost sleep

Having a black cat that can disappear into the night might be a reason to always check for the cat being inside before tucking in for the night. I think not seeing her is what caused me to wake up five hours later in a panic. We went through all of the house's nooks and crannies and still no Charm. I'm not even sure why John went outside to look for her. She had hunkered down behind some backyard rubble and then hid under a trailer while John and I cooed at her to leave.

The List

the camera
the mp3 player (times two)
the history compilation to send to Gma
plastic or glass in the kitchen
the front room
the guestroom
ridding ourselves of all our lesser amount postage stamps
new cell plans
the green paper collection
the Buffy odds and ends
gaming PS2-wise
gaming GBA-related
gaming PC-forward
professional development
a good arm workout while watching TV
pondering a savings plan
TIVO now or later
new shower curtain
trying not to buy so much, and really that's someone else's specialty
reading all houseful of magazines
writing more
sleeping more
professional development (ha ha)

Starting is the hardest part

When I look around my abode, I realize there are projects a plenty and I thought if I somehow send them in to the cosmos I will get more motivated to complete them. This record may prove that to be complete unfounded and craftily so. good luck to me