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Oct. 13th, 2009

101 Goals reached, in progress and scratched.

I have made a lot of progress on some of my goals and revisited and changed some of my other goals due to changing interests and also because some things have become obsolete due to changes in my life and home. 

If a goal is crossed out it is complete. For some goals it just means I am doing it regularly and feel back on target.

If a goal is in red I am in progress and making enough headway to feel it is solidly underway or close to complete.

The rest have not been started or I'm having trouble getting started and don't feel like I'm making any progress.


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Aug. 25th, 2009

101 Things

mood: sleepy
music: Birds chirping.
I so need to update my 101 things list, but I've been working so hard on trying to accomplish some of the goals, that I really haven't had time. In addition to that, I am much too busy playing silly farming games when I do sit down at the computer.
I've been making some pretty good progress in my yard and that is saying a lot. I'm sure I could do a lot more if:
A. I wasn't so tired all the time.
B. I didn't have a computer.
C. I had never started playing Farm Town and other facsimiles.
D. I was younger. (I could do a lot more at 52 than I can at 59.)
E. I made lists and stuck to them. ( I make lists. I really do. I never look at them once they are written.)
F. I was retired and could stay home all day.

Even so, I am making pretty good progress and it's been a pretty good summer. I've noticed however that my social goals are quite lacking in accomplishment. When I take a vacation from my job, I take it to work on my house and yard. I need to learn how to take a vacation to do nothing except go places and see people.

I accidentally saw a good friend of mine in making a simple decision about where to go for lunch. But seeing friends should be planned or included in plans, not accidental. I'm working on that. I have gotten better at getting together with people, but it's a slow process for me. I'm a hermit by nature. I know to some people I seem really social. Even when I take social ability type tests or quizzes I am often labeled an extrovert, but really, I'm not. I answer the questions with what I actually do instead of what I would like to do. When you have kids, you have to learn to be social and include others in your life. That's just how it is. So even though I've learned how to cope and even be fun in social situations, I am by nature a loner and a recluse. (in other words, God gave me kids for a reason?) Who knows? But someday I would still love to live alone.

I have been able to get together with my grandkids more. I also am still working on going to my friends sometimes instead of always wanting them to come here. In other words, getting out of the house. I have a date with my nephew in September sometime to go on a photo shooting drive. I will probably include my friend, Jewel, in that if I can. It will depend on her work schedule and his. I've been taking photos like mad. I love my new camera but already want a newer one. Probably in part because I was duped in getting that one. NEVER do business with TVs Depot. NEVER! It's a fair warning, so heed it!

I was supposed to be blogging regularly and also reading new blogs and commenting. One of the problems I have with that is my name I think. When I click the "next blog" button on Blogspot it sends me to blogs written in Spanish. I think they are basing that on assumptions because of my last name, which is actually Filipino. It's frustrating for me and I give up. Maybe I will just start picking out blogs on my friends's reading list or go to Nablopomo's site and pick some. I really don't have the time to read blogs, though. Or, more accurately, I can't stay awake long enough to read and comment on more than one blog. But I will work on this. I did make comments in both my "t-shirt surgery" community and my 100_Snapshots community, so that counts. I also made some progress on my list and I'm almost done with the first list in 100_Snapshots.

So my non-update is sort of an update after all. I will post an update with my list included when it starts to rain again. I have too much to do outside right now to worry about the inside! House cleaning, inside painting, flooring and all that can wait until the weather turns. I don't want to waste the good weather indoors.
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Jul. 13th, 2009

100 Snapshots updated link chart.

location: in my room.
mood: busy
music: just the birds
My updated 100_Snapshots.
I'm almost done. Just a few to go.
I'm adding a second and third choice wash because I took a couple more after my original one that I like but couldn't choose between the two.


1.
Safety		2.
Stale		3.
Feathered		4.
Hot		5.
Open		6.
Forever		7.
Love		8.
Touch		9.
Colorless		10.
Blue
11.
Smell		12.
Growth		13.
Irony		14.
Wrong		15.
More		16.
Feel		17.
Muse		18.
Child		19.
Within		20.
Pale
21.
Earth		22.
Torn		23.
Scars		24.
Stray		25.
Drops		26.
Against		27.
Dry		28.
Fresh		29.
Covered		30.
Bold
31.
High		32.
Shadow		33.
Concrete		34.
Vein		35.
Rush		36.
Yellow		37.
Empty		38.
Cliché		39.
Central		40.
Loss
41.
Wonder		42.
Sweet		43.
Poetry		44.
Heavy		45.
Fall		46.
Chair		47.
Statue		48.
Kool-Aid		49.
Dark		50.
Breath
51.
Garbage		52.
Silk		53.
Teacher		54.
Cream		55.
1.Wash

2.Wash
3.Wash		56.
Corner		57.
Rose		58.
Field		59.
Two		60.
Red
61.
Music		62.
Rope		63.
Decrepit		64.
Chase		65.
Dream		66.
Dance		67.
Smile		68.
Smirk		69.
Reflection		70.
Soul
71.
Lock		72.
Key		73.
Rust		74.
Find		75.
Lose		76.
Drag		77.
Wind		78.
Rest		79.
Swing		80.
Meeting
81.
Vacant		82.
Hazy		83.
Release		84.
Gather		85.
Swarm		86.
Road		87.
Wait		88.
Stand		89.
Distance		90. 
1.Trapped
2.Trapped
91.
Desk		92.
Detach		93.
Shatter		94.
Home		95.
Shy		96.
Tackle		97.
Begin		98.
End		99.
Time		100.
Life

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May. 14th, 2009

An update. Not much progress but an update.

I'm finding it difficult to stay motivated on my diet , health and exercise, probably because I have so much else going on.
I am making good progress on things in my home even if they aren't all on my list, but the outside stuff is in a complete stall because the weather is just not cooperating. I can't work on the dog's yard because it is still soaking wet, poor dog. I'm hoping we can get even a week of dry weather that will include my days off. (Cross your fingers for me.)
It's way more difficult than I ever knew to eat salt-free, but I'm getting good at decreasing it at least.
I suck at reading things that aren't in my computer. I'm struggling with getting back into fiction. I will dig out my John Steinbeck. That should help.

Bolded red are in progress.
Cross out's are done. (Done may just mean I'm doing them on a regular basis, now.) 


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Mar. 29th, 2009

For liadan_giolla_b... a picture of one of my quilts.

mood: cold
music: Birds are chattering.

This is the one I made for my grandson Trenton. I thought I had a picture of the one I made for Gage, but it isn't here. These are sooooooooooo easy to do. 

                        



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Jan. 30th, 2009

Writer's Block: Spoilers Below the Cut

location: Maryland
mood: lazy
music: Mario's Galaxy

Have you ever ruined the ending or given away plot developments in a book, movie, or tv show by telling someone who hasn't seen or read it what happens? Has anyone ever done this to you?


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I have done that inadvertantly, but not too often. I actually love it when people tell me the ending of any movie that is not a comedy. I don't care that much for suspense and mystery in movies. I like to know how things turn out. I'm one of those strange folk who likes to read the ending chapter of a book before I read the book. I used to have a friend that obliged me often on my need to know the movies. She would start out saying, "I saw this really great movie last night." and then she would try to stop herself from telling me the plot, but I always asked her to continue. After a while she got quite proficient at giving me the entire plot of the movie from beginning to end and I loved it. I would decide whether to see it or not based on her assessment of the plot.

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Jan. 29th, 2009

Progress and revised list.

location: Maryland
music: Only the songs in my head

Here is my revised list. I didn't change much. Some are just subtle changes to help me measure progress. A couple of things were things I meant to put, but forgot. Crossed out are completed. Bold and red means they are in progress. Some goals will not be the kind you can actually call finished, but more to change old habits to new ones. When I feel like I have changed the habit and have the new habit quite well initiated, I will cross them out and call them complete.
I changed some goals to start after my vacation. I estimated weeks, days and months for the ones that I want to continue on a regular basis. I'm behind on some already but will catch up as soon as I can.
Hope everyone is having fun with their lists. I enjoy reading the progress reports.

 

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Jan. 13th, 2009

Writer's Block: Tricky Questions

What is your first reaction when someone says "I need to talk to you"?


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For me it would depend on who it was that said it.
If it were my boss, I might get butterflies and wonder what I did wrong. I
If it is one of my kids I might wonder if everything is ok or think they might need to borrow money or need something I can provide. If it's my son, David, then it's usually something he needs help solving or some health issue he has. He is not the only one of my kids who has said that to me, but he is the one who uses that phrase the most.  He and I love to hash out issues together.
If it is some random person at work, then I know it's nothing too big.
If it is a friend, I might get butterflies or my stomach might sink, depending on what else I might know about what is going on in their lives.
If it is my mom, I would be nervous, hoping that it would not be something too serious, like someone in the family having a terminal illness or something bad going on in a siblings family.
So I guess my reaction would depend totally on who the person saying it is.
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Jan. 2nd, 2009

101 Things in 1001 days.

 I wanted a copy of this on my site so I can regularly check it without searching for mine.

Hi everyone! My name is Sheila. I'm 58 years old and have been a lifelong procrastinator. I have learned over the last year to find ways to procrastinate the procrastination and get things done. I still have a lot I want to do and I saw this community and decided to join. I've refined my list and I think I'm ready to begin. My goals aren't lofty, but they are all things I've procrastinated or have a desire to get done.  I tried to make my goals attainable, so while some things are things I would like to do daily, I am making the goal less than daily so that I don't fail before I even get started. 
So, without further ado, here is  my list.

 

Immediate goals: 
                                              
1. Mail Gage's quilt.                                          
2. Organize my bills and begin a real budget.
3. Figure out how much it will cost the boys to live here if I move out.
4. Make my kitchen curtains.
5. Make my living room pillows.
6. Clean out the mending basket by mending or discarding items in it.
7. Clean the car.
8. Organize the kitchen cupboards. (Again, until I get them right.)
9. Finish Logan's quilt.
                                            
Other goals: 
                                          
.Personal:
10. Ride my excercise bicycle at least three times a week for at least 15 minutes a time.
11. Go back to using my weights at least four times a week.
12. Return to stretching daily.
13. Learn yoga.
14. Learn more about feng shui.
15. Get at least one pedicure a month.  (1/33)
16. Take care of my toenails at least three times a week for the next two months, working toward increasing
it to daily by six months from now. (July 1st.)
17. Make a doctor's appointment sometime before March and keep it.
18. Use my prescription toothpaste regularly with the end goal of using it daily. 
19. Include seaweed in my diet at least four times a week.
20. Continue to refine my diet  as follows:
       More fish, less red meat.
       More veggies.
       As salt-free as possible.
       Less starch.
       Less coffee, more tea.
                        
Reading:
I want to read:
21. The four biographies I picked up at a bag book sale. (2.00 a bag)
        a. Frank Sinatra, "His Way"
        b. Mary Tyler Moore.
        c. Johnny Carlson
        d. William Faulkner
22. Katherine Hepburn's biography.
23. Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand         
24. Lovely Bones by   Alice Sebold.
25. Breakfast at Tiffany's
I want to re-read:     
26. All of John Steinbeck
27. John Steinbeck, "A Life In Letters" by Elaine Steinbeck
                    
 
Yard:

28. Redefine the dog's yard with new fencing.
29. Grade, rock and gravel the dog's yard.
30. Grade the area around the firepit and gravel it.
31. Define my gardens and flower beds with new borders.
32. Widen and smooth the driveway and parking area.
33. Build a shed.
34. Landscape around the house.
35. Build the modified gazebo for around the firepit.
36. Lay pathways and walkways of stone and rock.
37. Fence the back. (side)
38. Repaint the house and trim.
39. Rebuild the front porch into a deck.
40. Enclose the back porch.

House:
41. Order and install new blinds in the living room and my room.
42. Put down the floor in the hall and small room.
43. Build the walls to the pet room.
44. Replace the windows.
45. Replace all the doors.
46. Find someone to replace the rotten beam.
47. Put on a new roof.
48. Install the oven and hook up the cooktop.
49. Decide which flooring to use in the living room and install it.
50. Get a pellet stove.

Computer:
51. Scan all my photos and get them on CDs.
52. Make photo CDs for each of the kids.
53. Make photo CDs with slide shows for the kids and friends.
54. Organize all my photos and make slide shows for myself.
55. Finish the first list in the  photo-challenge I started two years ago.
56. Start the second list of the photo-challenge.
57. Get my Flickr site set up and working right.
58. Post at least one blog a week.
59 Answer the 'Writer's Block" question at least once a week on LiveJournal.
60. Organize my financial data.
61. Read one new blog each week and leave a comment. (picked at random.)
62. Purge my emails on each of my email addresses.
63. Learn to use all the features of my photo programs, posting the results in my blogs.
64. Learn to use all the features of Word and Excel.
65. Complete an I.T. college course and get my I.T. certificate.

Social:
66. Get out of the house at least one of my days off. (Quit being such a homebody.)
67. Go to my friends's houses instead of always expecting them to come here.
68. Go shopping at least once a month.
69. Remember my friends's birthdays and actually get them something.
70. See more of my grandchildren by going to their houses more often. (they don't live close.)
71. Travel to Oregon to meet my online friend.

Car:
72. Keep up on oil changes and service.
73. Get a key finder.
74. Vacuum it out at least once a month.
                                
Travel:
75. Go to see the Grand Canyon.
76. Take a trip from Laurie's to New York.
77. Actually do the tourist thing when I'm at Laurie's and go see the
       museums in Washington, D.C.
78. Visit Jen and Jay.
79. Drive Highway 101 down the coast again.
80. Take (or work on) a cruise.

Miscellaneous:
81. Teach my cockatiel some new phrases.
82. Re-tame my cockatiels and parakeets.
83. Put all my home movies and VHS tapes on DVD.
84. Copy my favorites of my Dad's slides and scan them to the computer.
85. Clean out the garage and make myself an art studio.
86. Clean out the garage and make a family room, play area.
87. Repair the damage from the leaking roof in the garage.
88. Design some t-shirt surgeries to make with Mikaila when I'm in Maryland.
89. Teach Mikaila to follow a sewing pattern.
90. Teach the girls (whoever's interested) to use the knitting looms.
91. Teach myself to play the flute. (buy a flute)
92. Go to the Nutcracker Ballet in Seattle in December with a couple
        of the grandkids.
93. Attend an opera.
94. Attend a play at Tacoma's Little Theater.
95. Take Jewel to the ocean and take snapshots.
96. Go on a drive to Mount Rainier with Jewel to take snapshots.
97. Have a party for my 60th birthday.
98. Make Cheryl a quilt.
99. Do a painting for each of my children.
100. Do a large stained glass piece.
101. Be more tolerant of the terrorists. (Kitties). 

 

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Jan. 1st, 2009

Writer's Block: Resolved

I've never really made New Year's resolutions. I think they are silly and most of the people I know that make them never keep them. I try to work on myself 365 days a year rather than make a resolution once a year.  This year I have decided, however, to join the Mission 101 community and work on a list of 101 goals over the next 2.75 years or 1001 days. This makes more sense to me since I tried to make definable goals that I can hopefully reach over the next couple of years. I am hoping to continue dealing with my procrastination issues in this way.  I hope those of you who do make resolutions for the New Year will be able to keep them. Wish me luck on my 1001 day journey to get things done. With that said, by writing this I am already working on one of my goals.  We'll see if I can continue to succeed.

A lot of resolutions, from the mundane to the truly ambitious, are being made today. What are your New Year's resolutions? Do you think you're likely to stick to them past the month of January?


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Nov. 6th, 2007

100 Snapshots

mood: creative
music: The juke box in my head.
1.
Safety		2.
Stale		3.
Feathered		4.
Hot		5.
Open		6.
Forever		7.
Love		8.
Touch		9.
Colorless		10.
Blue
11.
Smell		12.
Growth		13.
Irony		14.
Wrong		15.
More		16.
Feel		17.
Muse		18.
Child		19.
Within		20.
Pale
21.
Earth		22.
Torn		23.
Scars		24.
Stray		25.
Drops		26.
Against		27.
Dry		28.
Fresh		29.
Covered		30.
Bold
31.
High		32.
Shadow		33.
Concrete		34.
Vein		35.
Rush		36.
Yellow		37.
Empty		38.
Cliché		39.
Central		40.
Loss
41.
Wonder		42.
Sweet		43.
Poetry		44.
Heavy		45.
Fall		46.
Chair		47.
Statue		48.
Kool-Aid		49.
Dark		50.
Breath
51.
Garbage		52.
Silk		53.
Teacher		54.
Cream		55.
Wash		56.
Corner		57.
Rose		58.
Field		59.
Two		60.
Red
61.
Music		62.
Rope		63.
Decrepit		64.
Chase		65.
Dream		66.
Dance		67.
Smile		68.
Smirk		69.
Reflection		70.
Soul
71.
Lock		72.
Key		73.
Rust		74.
Find		75.
Lose		76.
Drag		77.
Wind		78.
Rest		79.
Swing		80.
Meeting
81.
Vacant		82.
Hazy		83.
Release		84.
Gather		85.
Swarm		86.
Road		87.
Wait		88.
Stand		89.
Distance		90. 
1.Trapped
2.Trapped
91.
Desk		92.
Detach		93.
Shatter		94.
Home		95.
Shy		96.
Tackle		97.
Begin		98.
End		99.
Time		100.
Life
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Oct. 30th, 2007

Writer's Block: Happy Halloween!

mood: aggravated
music: none

Boo! How did you celebrate Halloween?


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 I'm celebrating Halloween by working so my coworkers who have small peoples can go enjoy the evening. I don't mind this because:
a: I could use the extra money
b: I get to see all the costumes that come to my work for the  halloween party there.
c: I could use the extra money
d: the extra money will be nice!
haha
I made two pirate costumes for two of my granddaughters and will pick them up before I go to work and bring them here to try everything on and make sure we didn't forget anything. I can take pictures of them at that time. I didn't do tshirt surgeries to make their costumes, but I did do pants surgeries and made them each a vest. I will post pictures after Wednesday sometime.
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Oct. 16th, 2007

What Do You Have To Say? - Small Business: My Own Business

If you could start your own business, what would it be?

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 I've always wanted to buy up the old grain mill down the road and start a business in it. I had this great idea for a little ice cream and sandwich shop. I wanted to paint the grain silos in bright colors and add a couple of windows to them and have consignment areas where others could sell their artsy crafty stuff. I figured I would do a little antique and collectables area out front next to the sandwich shop. The train track is right next to it and I always thought it would be neat to make it a little stop on the route for the dinner train that rolls by there each day. It would be so cute painted up and cleaned up. The front of it used to be a feed store, so there is a nice porch and it has the feel of the kind of building you see in the old western movies. It's been there for a long time. When I was a teenager here, it was still in business as a grain mill. The trains used to back their grain cars up to unload them. Eventually the trains were put out of use and they used trucks instead. The railroad tracks right next to the building were filled in with dirt and leveled so the trucks could back up there and dump the grain. It's been out of business for a long time now, but it's still one of my favorite things around here. I hate to see it just sitting there going to waste. Anyone got a few million they could give me? haha.
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Oct. 15th, 2007

What Do You Have To Say? - Small Business: Filling the Piggy Bank

location: Right here.
mood: creative
music: Only the birds twittering and some airplanes flying around.

How did you earn extra money as a child (i.e. lemonade stands, household chores, etc)?

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 When I was about ten or eleven I started ironing for money. I was too young to babysit, but I was not too young to iron and I loved ironing. In those days clothes were starched in the washing machine. When they were done, they were taken out and put into a plastic bag and placed in the refrigerator.  I loved the smell of the starched clothes and the way they went from cold, damp and wrinkled to warm and smooth. I got ten cents per ladies blouse, plain baby dresses and men's and boys shirts. I got 15 cents for ruffly blouses and slips. I got 25 cents for ladies dresses and fancy babies dresses. I also got 25 cents per piece for fatigues. (I was an army brat.) Fatigues had to be done just so....exact creases and patches ironed flat.

My mom eventually bought a mangle. A mangle is an ironing machine with a roller and a concave surface that it fits into. You roll the clothes through it. At that point I started doing the ironing for our church. I ironed the altar cloths and the priest's robes and all the church linens. I loved using the mangle, although I still preferred doing the baby dresses and shirts and blouses by hand. It was just easier.

I still love ironing, although I don't do it much anymore. There's something quite pleasing about it. I love the smell and the feel of the ironed clothes. I now use spray starch and the clothes aren't cold and damp anymore, but it is still a pleasant duty for me. 

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Oct. 10th, 2007

Tired

mood: listless
music: Sublime
I'm tired. Very tired, but I keep on pushing and I don't know why. It would seem to some busier folks that maybe I don't do that much, but if they were in my body with the pain and fatigue, they would wonder at the fact that I do anything at all. I just want to lay down and sleep for a hundred years and yet I sleep every night and most of the time I sleep long enough for me. I can't stay in bed for long periods or my body will refuse to work when I arise. I hear people talk about how they can't do this and they can't do that. It's interesting to me what stops most people from really functioning in life. (even me at times). It's the easy way out, to give up and just stop being productive, but I don't want that for myself. I keep trying to find ways to regain the energy and the stamina and the muscle from when I was younger. I know I just need to break down and get an exercise machine that I will really use, like a stationery bicycle. I wish I could just walk. I loved walking when I used to do five miles a day. I was addicted to it. I had crankiness if for some reason I couldn't go out each day and walk.  It kind of irritates me that I cannot use that form of exercise anymore. It's simple, requires no equipment and is totally refreshing. I can take little walks around the block and such, but I can't speed walk for exercise anymore. The doctor says NO!  
I think I'm just complaining, but I really do miss my vitality. A customer came up to the cage yesterday and it was his 51st birthday and he looked way older than me (but then most people look way older than me...the family curse, for us, is looking young) and he was saying how he doesn't really get the 50 part. In his head he still thinks he is thirty. I told him I know exactly what he meant...in my head I still think I am a teenager and I'm 57. But the body just doesn't go along with it. He was saying how he retired and then took a job as a painter and when he started he could barely make it up the steps and struggled carrying the big ladders. YES! That is what I'm talking about. He said, now he is getting to where it is easier (which gave me hope), but at first he couldn't believe how his muscles were lacking strength. That's how I feel. I used to chop wood, garden, mow, hammer, saw, push, pull, carry and chase around 7 kids and then later lots of other kids and grandkids. I'm not really lazy. At work, I always walk down the hill and back up the hill to and from my car rather than take the van for employees. I still work in my yard, build things, rearrange furniture, tear down and rebuild walls, install sinks and toilets and paint and clean and do laundry, dishes, and general housework. I just do all that slower and with more breaks in between. I just want my old energy back and my old stamina back and the fatigue to go away.  I'm tired of feeling tired. Soooooooooooooo....
with that in mind:
1. I'm going to go back to lifting weights every day. 
2. I'm going to get serious about getting an exercise bicycle and in the meantime, exercise at least fifteen minutes a day.
3. I'm going to keep a food diary.
4. I'm going to keep an exercise diary.
5. I'm going to start getting monthly or bi-weekly pedicures. (to enable my feet)
6. I'm going to create and maintain a daily goal chart for projects.

Those are my goals and I will let you know if I feel less tired after 3 months. I'm giving myself plenty of time. I can do this. I want to be a productive senior citizen. I want to be able to pick up my new grandson even when he 's three.
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Oct. 9th, 2007

100 snapshots

mood: crazy
music: Just the birds, as always.

Well, I gave up on taking my pictures in order. I've started taking my camera everywhere I go, something I hadn't done for a long, long time. I no longer see a nice sunset, or a really great contrast or a stark reality. I now see words everywhere in pictures. I see a railroad crossing sign, I think....ohhhhhhhhhh...that could be "wait". Everything is about picturing those one hundred words. This morning when I woke up and looked outside the sky was on fire. I thought "red, forever, high, distance, wait" and immediately got up and went out on the back porch in just my tshirt and undies to snap some pictures of it.  haha. This challenge has taken over my life, but I love it. I want to do three and four and five pictures for each word. Maybe I will for  myself.
ok...gotta go!

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Oct. 7th, 2007

Sunday

mood: creative
music: Birds twittering as usual.

Sunday is usually the one day I don't have to get up early and take someone to work. Today, however, David worked so I am up and sitting here at the computer while I sip my coffee. I can make my own coffee, but David and I have gotten hooked on getting coffee at Thunderbird every morning. It's actually disappointing on the mornings that we run late and don't have time or both of us are fundless and decide we can do without. haha. Funny how little habits become lifestyles.

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Oct. 4th, 2007

Nothing. really

location: In my cozy bed
mood: sleepy
music: The hum of my laptop.

So, today I learned how to use the "LJ cut" and went back into my journal postings and edited the "LJ cut" into them. That was fun. I had so much I wanted to do today, but it was one of those days where my body ached and it was hard to move. I actually laid down and took a nap, something I seldom do. I was cold and couldn't get warm and too tired and achy to accomplish anything, anyway. As it turns out, Jeren got paid a day early anyway, so I went at his lunch time to take him to cash his check. We went out to lunch, I took him back to work and came home and continued to not do a whole heck of a lot. 

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Update.

location: home
mood: busy
music: My birds twittering, chattering and whistling.

Today is my last day of vacation. It's been 16 lovely days and I got a lot done. I'm a little happy about going back to work. I haven't seen or spoken to anyone from work the whole time I've been off. I know there were changes being made, so it will be interesting to see just how it all came down. Hopefully I'm still on the same shift. Haha. 

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Sep. 30th, 2007

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mood: content
music: Colombo

 First a haiku:

The rain drizzles down
The day is grey, falling rain
drips from sagging leaves.

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