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« Reply #45 on: January 01, 2007, 07:40:21 PM » |
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All right. I didn't get everything done I wanted today, but then the day's not over. I still fool around too much (or maybe I have to intellectual think through my every action, ruminate on it for a while, then finally act), but the living room is now clean, some laundry is done, I made it to the drugstore and bank, and I even opened the dreaded Mr. Mailbox. I haven't been to Mr. Mailbox for two weeks, so there's a big stack of mail at my feet.
Someone give me a shove to sort through the pile of icky mail.
Tonight I will either tackle the extra bedroom or start looking at my new text and jotting down ideas for my syllabus (of which I'm teaching 4 sections--1 is an overload).
I'm so proud of you! Sort through the mail first, you'll be glad when you've got it over with. I'll do mine as well. BF, trying to be helpful, brought in my evil mail pile. Let's do it together. Now, go get it done, young lady! |
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« Reply #46 on: January 01, 2007, 07:45:10 PM » |
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Hey pry! (you too, case.. you type faster than me :-) )
Divide the icky mail in to three or four piles. Go thru the first one using the touch once method - "pitch/shred it", "file or pay it", "put it aside to completely read later". Go thru the pile quickly.
Go thru 2 or 3 chapters of your book. Jot down some ideas. Let your mind wander a little on how much fun it will be to teach those nifty ideas.
Lather Rinse Repeat.
You can do it. Keep going......
My mail is done. My lowest call number class is prepped. Tomorrow is home office clean like a dervish day.
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« Reply #47 on: January 01, 2007, 07:57:18 PM » |
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Hey pry! (you too, case.. you type faster than me :-) )
I type faster than Mavis Beacon. My mail is done. My lowest call number class is prepped. Tomorrow is home office clean like a dervish day.
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« Reply #48 on: January 01, 2007, 08:02:46 PM » |
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I actually went through it all--tossed all the advertisements and usual 0% credit card applications \ and am left with the following (all unopened): Discover card bill, Toyota Financial bill, Connecticut Light and Power, oh, and what's this? I need to open it--and a bill for a credit card I already paid off, which says I owe 4K. Freaking criminals everywhere. It would have been easy except for that--now I have to dig up paperwork in my file.
Dept Geek, I really do need to make a few payments, though. I really don't remember when I paid the light bill last, and I think I might be late on my truck payment as well. Now these stupid criminals at the credit card company are looking to financially rape me--well--they aren't having their way with me, that's for sure.
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« Reply #49 on: January 01, 2007, 08:22:50 PM » |
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I actually went through it all--....
Hooray! Dept Geek, I really do need to make a few payments, though.
Oops. Sorry. I forgot that step. Once you have the three piles, (shred, pay, read) go thru and do that. That step may take longer as - as you noted - you may have to dig up other stuff so you don't have to pay so much. . Do the shred first, then pay, then with a beverage in hand - do the reading. And enjoy it.
I type faster than Mavis Beacon.
I use the modified two-finger-hunt-peck-n-cuss method. Not fast. Mostly effective
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« Reply #50 on: January 01, 2007, 08:46:26 PM » |
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First, a confession that runs counter to the prevailing mood of this thread: I'm an obsessive mail-checker; on holidays, when there's no mail delivery, I get agitated. (When I remember it's a holiday, I have to remind myself all day long--"no mail, it's Veteran's Day"--when I forget, I get really cranky--"where's the mail??!!"). One of the things I love about my house is that we have a mail slot: the mail comes right through the door, and we hear the minute it arrives. On the subject of cleaning, organizing, etc., however, I'm right with you. Someone mentioned www.flylady.net (a long time ago on who knows which Chronicle board), and it's been a life-saver. Goofy in some ways, but really useful. I've borrowed their timer method for all kinds of things in my life aside from housework. Their motto for 2007 is "progress, not perfection." Sounds good right about now . . . nancydrew |
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« Reply #51 on: January 01, 2007, 08:49:45 PM » |
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First, a confession that runs counter to the prevailing mood of this thread: I'm an obsessive mail-checker; on holidays, when there's no mail delivery, I get agitated. (When I remember it's a holiday, I have to remind myself all day long--"no mail, it's Veteran's Day"--when I forget, I get really cranky--"where's the mail??!!"). One of the things I love about my house is that we have a mail slot: the mail comes right through the door, and we hear the minute it arrives. On the subject of cleaning, organizing, etc., however, I'm right with you. Someone mentioned www.flylady.net (a long time ago on who knows which Chronicle board), and it's been a life-saver. Goofy in some ways, but really useful. I've borrowed their timer method for all kinds of things in my life aside from housework. Their motto for 2007 is "progress, not perfection." Sounds good right about now . . . nancydrew So tomorrow, when you get no mail deliver for a third straight day, will you start twitching?? :o) |
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« Reply #52 on: January 01, 2007, 08:51:44 PM » |
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First, a confession that runs counter to the prevailing mood of this thread: I'm an obsessive mail-checker; on holidays, when there's no mail delivery, I get agitated. (When I remember it's a holiday, I have to remind myself all day long--"no mail, it's Veteran's Day"--when I forget, I get really cranky--"where's the mail??!!"). One of the things I love about my house is that we have a mail slot: the mail comes right through the door, and we hear the minute it arrives. On the subject of cleaning, organizing, etc., however, I'm right with you. Someone mentioned www.flylady.net (a long time ago on who knows which Chronicle board), and it's been a life-saver. Goofy in some ways, but really useful. I've borrowed their timer method for all kinds of things in my life aside from housework. Their motto for 2007 is "progress, not perfection." Sounds good right about now . . . nancydrew So tomorrow, when you get no mail deliver for a third straight day, will you start twitching?? :o) WHAT?? There's no mail delivery tomorrow? You're kidding, right? |
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« Reply #53 on: January 01, 2007, 08:52:55 PM » |
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First, a confession that runs counter to the prevailing mood of this thread: I'm an obsessive mail-checker; on holidays, when there's no mail delivery, I get agitated. (When I remember it's a holiday, I have to remind myself all day long--"no mail, it's Veteran's Day"--when I forget, I get really cranky--"where's the mail??!!"). One of the things I love about my house is that we have a mail slot: the mail comes right through the door, and we hear the minute it arrives. On the subject of cleaning, organizing, etc., however, I'm right with you. Someone mentioned www.flylady.net (a long time ago on who knows which Chronicle board), and it's been a life-saver. Goofy in some ways, but really useful. I've borrowed their timer method for all kinds of things in my life aside from housework. Their motto for 2007 is "progress, not perfection." Sounds good right about now . . . nancydrew So tomorrow, when you get no mail deliver for a third straight day, will you start twitching?? :o) WHAT?? There's no mail delivery tomorrow? You're kidding, right? I am not kidding. I believe they have decided that due to President Ford's funeral... By the way, I have never lived anywhere with a mail slot. That MIGHT get me to deal with the mail on a daily basis. |
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« Reply #54 on: January 01, 2007, 08:53:24 PM » |
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Nope. No kidding. No mail tomorrow. It is a federal holiday - a national day of mourning.
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« Reply #55 on: January 01, 2007, 08:59:09 PM » |
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So tomorrow, when you get no mail deliver for a third straight day, will you start twitching?? :o) WHAT?? There's no mail delivery tomorrow? You're kidding, right? I am not kidding. I believe they have decided that due to President Ford's funeral... By the way, I have never lived anywhere with a mail slot. That MIGHT get me to deal with the mail on a daily basis. ci, I'm twitching already. The mail on the floor would probably keep any/everyone up to speed with their mail: how can you get the kids out the door to school with a big pile of bills & catalogs blocking the door? |
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« Reply #56 on: January 01, 2007, 09:05:36 PM » |
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Geez, Pry, you're a machine!
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« Reply #57 on: January 01, 2007, 09:11:47 PM » |
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I think you threw Nancy Drew in a tither over the mail not running tomorrow. Suits me just fine, though, although I wish the stock market were going to be open.
But Nancy Drew, thanks for the Flylady site. I may try that out except now my house is clean except for one small room (which, granted, is a bit of a disaster).
Okay. So I made my truck payment (I have a pickup truck) and my light bill. I found the check I made the final payment on to the credit card company. The other credit card is charging me for some unauthorized junk I have to take care of--well, that's for Wednesday.
Oh, I got a great calendar from the town that tells the phases of the moon, which is very important if you trade stocks, and then I also have two letters from my son's high school--the one he quit.
I'll open those now. Hmmm. A letter from the principal re: absences for unverified reasons. How about he quit school? My son is a headache when it comes to school, but I think I may just need to sue them for not making accomodations as required by the ADA because he was passing everything and got nailed for absences. Well, hopefully, he will do okay at the CC this year.
I need to get my book back out "How to Get Organized"
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« Reply #58 on: January 01, 2007, 09:22:13 PM » |
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I am sorry Pry, but Nancy Drew never gets in a tither. Bess, maybe, George rarely, but Nancy, female sleuth extraordinaire, never.
My house was clean yesterday, I even recleaned the kitchen after preparing my contribution to the gathering last night but now it looks like a cyclone hit. There was no party here last night, everyone went elsewhere for the New Year's ringing in ceremonials. However, my son is packing to leave for Japan in less than 12 hours for the semester. He's just like me, does everything at the last minute. He's not just like me in that everything he plans to take with him fits into one suitcase. He doesn't need much but I worry that he hasn't thought this packing through very well.
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« Reply #59 on: January 01, 2007, 09:25:17 PM » |
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I am sorry Pry, but Nancy Drew never gets in a tither. Bess, maybe, George rarely, but Nancy, female sleuth extraordinaire, never.
My house was clean yesterday, I even recleaned the kitchen after preparing my contribution to the gathering last night but now it looks like a cyclone hit. There was no party here last night, everyone went elsewhere for the New Year's ringing in ceremonials. However, my son is packing to leave for Japan in less than 12 hours for the semester. He's just like me, does everything at the last minute. He's not just like me in that everything he plans to take with him fits into one suitcase. He doesn't need much but I worry that he hasn't thought this packing through very well.
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