Monday
30Jun
To Dos or Not To Dos...
Monday, June 30, 2008 at 03:52PM …That is the question.
Kathy Moore has a new blog setup, just to list her to dos and to get more organised. I know, because she twittered about it. I would give you the link (look her up under KathyMoore on www.twitter.com) but Twitter is down again.
Still, it’s enough to make me think - top of her list is to make her computer time, productive computer time. Which is more than I can say about my own time lately - last week (eleven days of it) went past like some fuzzed out pale blur of a real life. My cold-befuddled mind still has me wanting more to lie down than put any work down.
But at least I got to school today, and got my email working properly - it wasn’t for a couple of days, blamed by my ISP towards the email client server - which I’m positive the problem wasn’t, because I set up our main account (correctly!) on three different email clients onboard here.
Today, I should be getting prepared for my mammoth effort scheduled in editing and redrafting my first novel attempt - due to commence tomorrow, for one full month. Instead, I’ve used any and every excuse to not think about that at all.
Things I Have Done (in the name of procrastination)
- Have been blowing my nose for the entire day, especially whilst outside.
- Spent two hours on the phone with an Indian helpdesk person, (and then their supervisor) allowing them to watch my PC screen while I pointed out the problem of stuck emails on their server.
- Started reading a completely new novel, out in the sun (managed to use up two hours on and off, on simply reading)
- Walked the dog
- Actually ate something for lunch (okay, it was only three small pieces of fruit, but…)
- Sorted out all the emails which had gone missing with my problems.
- Picked up emails in gmail, then pretended they weren’t there.
- Especially the one informing me a new Friends Reunited contact is messaging me on there. I haven’t seen the woman for over thirty years, for pete’s sake - and she dumped me as a friend when she moved away from my home-town. Still, it’s nice to have friends anywhere, and beggars can’t be choosers, right? And she was a lovely, er, school girl, and best friend for one brief moment of glorious childhood, and…and…and…
- Twittered - four times
- Facebooked - including remembering to respond to some requests
- Tidied up the dining room table (by 50% only, before getting fedup with the spam mail and general untidiness)
- Scrubbed the bathrooms upstairs (and a hallwall) but realise that the house is a pigsty, and all the family is arriving in a few days for the “Big BBQ” where my entire value will be judged by myself about how much of a good hostess I am (or am not).
- Read the few blogs I now pick up in Google Reader - actually, there’s quite a few now.
- Looked into another software application I found through a blog - linked up to it on Linkagogo.
- Went searching for a different software application reviewed through a blog, only to find it doesn’t exist out there on the internet.
- Thought about buying the Notezilla application I am trialing - then thought again. Maybe that PIM software I’d read about is better? Should I try that out, even though it’s really expensive and I have no money?
- Realised what a geek I am… took some pride in that, kind of.
- Went on the school-walk (what we without petrol do instead of the school-run, which ironically doesn’t include running does it?)
- Took an antihistamine for the first time in my life, because surely this eleven day old lurgy must no longer be a cold, but hay fever, right? Wrong. Although I’ve now discovered I am one of the few who suffers from drowsiness from the one-a-day tablets.
- Back in facebook, a new friend (ex work colleague I discovered on there) had some gadgetty Brain Game on there. Having failed dismally at Academy Brain Academy on the Nintendo Wii the other day, I thought this might give me a chance. It didn’t. I am third in all three of us who have the application - JanMary - you may cordially gloat about your brain prowess with me. After the sixth game, I started getting worse, too.
- Read the four (three too many) mails sent out to parents by the school, informing us of plans for the upcoming sports day this week. Felt guilty because I have limited picnic plans for the day also.
- Read the two parent mails from school discussing the school fete coming up. Our opportunity to gather all those old (like new) toys and books we want to dump - sorry, gift to somebody. Except I seriously can’t be bothered to gather.
- Decided bringing down the laptop to charge it up is not a good idea, as that would force me to actually update the writing files on there also, in preparation for tomorrow.
- Thought about (ie. did not do) designing another layout for the summer scraps album. Nah…
- With no idea what time the hubbie is getting home from London today (he’s inherited my cold also, poor man) I have made the empowered decision to NOT cook dinner, and just await him. He will be impressed. Not.
- Okay, so I’m going to try out that PIM software, just because nothing else in this world seems to excite me at the moment. That should waste the next two hours just nicely.
Things I Am Meant to Be Doing
- Get ready for that Novel Editing mission, commencing tomorrow!
- Spend several hours each day redrafting the novel.
- Facebook - respond to Angie Pedersen’s kind donation of three little words on my story.
- Friends Reunited - message back to that lost childhood friend.
- Hoover - the entire house.
- Wash floors - the entire house
- Tidy up - the entire house
- Scrub outdoor furniture (get rid of bird poo)
- Prepare Picnic menu for School Sports Day
- Prepare shopping list for Family BBQ Day, Saturday
- Gather books and toys to donate for School Fete, Saturday
- Find some kind of recipe for non-alcoholic cocktail fruity drinks for the BBQ
- Attend - Work, School Sports Day, Ballet lessons, School Fete
- Supermarket - for BBQ stuff
- Walk the dog - everyday.
- Host - Family BBQ
- Find a cure for this dripping nose.
- Tell my hubbie how special he is (and mean it!) without wanting his help in cleaning the house.
- Take photographs, create layouts
- Pay credit card bill.
- Cook dinner, without resentment, every night.
- Finish that novel I started reading unproductively today.
- Have a wee nap.
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