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Post by Unswamping on May 23, 2015 18:53:32 GMT -5
razydtesposito Diane, i hope you got the invoice done. Speaking from personal experience, last week i had my electric and my comcast shut off because i just didnt pay the bills. So i can relate to making things harder than they need to be. I know you can do it and then it will be a huge load off your shoulders.
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Post by dtesposito on May 23, 2015 21:15:02 GMT -5
Throwing out the calendar had a flow on effect.Razy, that's fantastic! Swamped, I'm sorry to say I have not done the invoice yet! However, I mentioned it to my senior client and she said that whenever I bring it she can write a check right away, so I'll have it in time. The other part is getting to the bank, which is not close by, but looking at my insurance invoice again, I probably could bring it in as late as Wednesday and still be okay. I'll aim for Tuesday to be safe, though. Diane
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Post by dtesposito on May 24, 2015 13:33:39 GMT -5
Swamped, I'm back here specifically to say that I did the invoice this morning. This is where the baby step method is miraculous, because I had a lot of other things I would rather have been doing, but I told myself I had to just do the first step, then I could do some other things and come back and do another step. Once I started, though, I completed the whole thing in one sitting. So I turned it in today and I have the check already.
I'm counting this as last week though, so I'm going to think of some more things I've been putting off forever and do another one for this week.
Diane
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Post by Unswamping on May 24, 2015 13:49:34 GMT -5
dtesposito diane, great job! Im glad you got the check. This is a great thread you started. When i moved in here almost two years ago, i brought these white shelving pieces. My original plan was to put them in the dining room closet for tool and hardware storage. Instead i have done some other "solutions" which none really worked. In the meantime, all the pieces have been sitting in the hallway. The tools and hardware recently got piled on the dining room floor. Friday i started putting the shelves up in the closet and finished yesterday. All the tools are now "home". The hardware needs to be sorted and organized. (Thats a later in the day, mindless task). Today as i am puttering in the house, it has been wonderful to reach in and grab exactly what i need. I didnt even need to turn the light on to grab the furniture sliders. Then i just slid the container back on the shelf without moving anything! It only took 19 months to get to this point.
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Post by sparkle on May 24, 2015 15:26:18 GMT -5
Diane and swamped! Congratulations and well done! Diane, you're doing great with the blinds/longer goal and now a weekly goal met with the check in hand! Swamp, yay you for getting tools and such organized. it makes such a difference. Shelves up? Hard work. Good job.
I got the worst and most dangerous pile of papers filed/shredded but I see another pile of tax stuff over there that needs to be done before i can call it good. Will report when it is.
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Post by Unswamping on May 24, 2015 21:04:35 GMT -5
Woo hoo sparkle! Great job on filing and shredding that dangeous pile of papers! That is a terrific accomplishment. You got the worst pile done too.
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Post by lostchild on May 24, 2015 21:42:30 GMT -5
My procrastination item today was to sweep and clean litter boxes and spilled cat food. Once I started though I didn't stop until storage unit was nice. There is nothing to trip on. All spilled food is swept. Kitty litter scooped.
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Post by dtesposito on May 26, 2015 15:36:10 GMT -5
I'm so happy to see other people posting! Lostchild, Sparkle and Swamped, good work on getting to those put off jobs.
I debated about what to do this week (there are SO MANY choices, unfortunately!) and figured it would be wise to pick something time-sensitive. I thought of two things I have to do that relate to the building and that should be done this week--one is to send an email to the board president asking a question (have put that off for 2 weeks, no idea why, I just have to be careful in my wording but it shouldn't be that difficult) and the other is to catch up reading the board meeting notes that are posted on line. We have our annual meeting at the end of this week and I want to be sure I am up to date with the official news (not just the gossip) before that happens. So those are the two things I'd like to do over the next couple of days.
And, as a bonus, yesterday I was looking under my sink for bleach and noticed that a stack of flowerpots that I put under there over a year ago are still there. My intention was to repot some plants into them, but have I touched them in a year? NO. Am I anywhere close to working with them? NO. And yet they sit there blocking access to other stuff. So a little while ago I took them down to my storage unit, where I should have put them in the first place. So one tiny item done for this week.
I'll try to send the email today and read the meeting notes by the end of tomorrow.
Diane
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Post by dtesposito on May 26, 2015 22:29:03 GMT -5
I sent the email today. Got a good response back so that's another small job done.
Diane
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Post by imamess on May 27, 2015 14:53:49 GMT -5
I'm into something major this week. Last winter after DH passed away, dd wanted to do something for me and thought painting the kitchen was a good idea. I agreed, but do not like to paint in the winter, so I put her off until spring. Her dh has been off from school during May and has to start back next week. They have visited his mother and grandparents, had a mini vacation and he has worked some at his part time job. This week is the week! I have spent parts of 4 days now pulling things out, washing, moving, throwing away just to get ready to paint 1 and 1/2 walls and the cabinets. I have scrubbed the cabinet fronts, thrown away 5 bags of trash, filled my sewing room with boxes and crates of things, pulled the stove out and scrubbed down the grease and ick and I still have more to do, although it is beginning to wind down for the day. Tomorrow they arrive to paint and my job is to babysit 14mo old dgd. She is crawling and everything here is nasty. I still have floors to mop and 'stuff' to get out of the house.
I'm really tired at this point and am taking a rest break. It is beginning to thunder and cloud up, so I really need to make my treks outside now rather than later, then go to the store for a paint tray and something for our lunch tomorrow that will be quick to fix.
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Post by mynicehome on May 27, 2015 21:30:10 GMT -5
dtesposito...this is a great idea for a thread. Should be long-runner!
I posted a couple of days ago in the wrong thread...about taking down my Christmas tree. Yes, it's still up. If it had been a real tree, it would be a dry stick right now.
My younger son is visiting next month or in July, and he bet me money that it would still be up when he arrives. Hah! We'll see about that! Giving myself one week to get it down.
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Post by openwindows on May 27, 2015 22:36:43 GMT -5
mynicehome I once left mine up so long that people started thinking I put it up early instead of wondering why I hadn't taken it down yet.
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Post by imamess on May 28, 2015 20:13:21 GMT -5
Painting was done today, walls, cabinets and trim. I'm sooooo tired and I didn't even do the painting. My job was babysitting my granddaughter and she is lightening fast on hands and knees, faster than I can walk.
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Post by hungaryhippo on Jun 1, 2015 7:28:55 GMT -5
I'm looking at a calendar right now that is showing October - 1979! I win! To be fair it hasn't been up since 1979 - it's a Fred Basset (he's a cartoon dog) calendar that I bought a few years ago and I have it hanging up at October because it's got a cute and funny picture of Fred playing in a pile of leaves that his master has just swept into a neat pile and he's flinging the leaves all over the place. Fred is one of the many things that I collect and rather than let the calendar sit forgotten in a box or cupboard somewhere I figured I'd enjoy it, even if it's a little out of date. And it will be re-usable as an accurate calendar in 2018! Thanks to www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/ for that little tip. As for procrastination items and tasks - I've got too darn many! Everything needs doing a year ago and I don't know where to start. But good luck to those of you who are chipping away at your items.
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Post by ohblondie on Jun 1, 2015 7:44:17 GMT -5
I am going to return an item to the store this week. I also made a phone call last night(well I cheated and sent an email) and set up a meeting I have been avoiding.
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