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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.)
( The list thingy is under here: )
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.
- I'm sitting...:About to get busy
- I'm feeling...:
cold - I'm listening to::Birds are chattering.
- I'm sitting...:Maryland
- I'm feeling...:
lazy - I'm listening to::Mario's Galaxy
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.
- I'm sitting...:Maryland
- I'm listening to::Only the songs in my head
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.
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.
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).
| 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 |
- I'm sitting...:Hanging out with Logan.
- I'm feeling...:
creative - I'm listening to::The juke box in my head.
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.
- I'm sitting...:Sewing room computer because mine is refusing to recognize.
- I'm feeling...:
aggravated - I'm listening to::none
