Squirrel's Smiley, Smart and Solvent Diary

redsquirrel80

Good morning all. Today I am mostly doing not very much, unless lots of work suddenly arrives. Going to do a bit more looking round at courses and see if I've got any surveys I can do.

Meh.

redsquirrel80

*kicks self up bum*

You know, all this motivation to do stuff is great.. until you have a day when you haven't got much to do and it feels really flat...

Anyway, have done myself a little list of the short courses I might want to do which start in a few weeks time, can realistically only afford one or maybe two so need to decide which. For the longer term, I'm still thinking about the Philosophy course for next year, but I have also seen a part time gardening 'grow your own' course which I would need to save up for so would be looking at starting next September (wish I'd seen that earlier for this year actually!).

Making plans for the weekend too which is always good

redsquirrel80

Woohoo - made myself get up early for a run and am all hyper and bouncy - woohoo :j

I've narrowed the courses down to two - a gardening one and a herbal medicine one, gardening is winning at the moment, it would mean negotiating a bit of time off work though - that should be OK as they've let other people do it recently, but it's a bit of a sticking point for me as I'm quite down on my holidays already this year and could do with extra flexi-time to make up for that. So may leave the courses till the New Year, not decided yet.

Not been brave enough to go to the Military Fitness class yet but I have agreed to go with a couple of my workmates to a scary Abs workout thing next week when our work gym opens :eek:

Nothing to report money-wise, not spent much, not earned much, 12 days to payday!

pepe2008

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

*kicks self up bum*

You know, all this motivation to do stuff is great.. until you have a day when you haven't got much to do and it feels really flat...

Anyway, have done myself a little list of the short courses I might want to do which start in a few weeks time, can realistically only afford one or maybe two so need to decide which. For the longer term, I'm still thinking about the Philosophy course for next year, but I have also seen a part time gardening 'grow your own' course which I would need to save up for so would be looking at starting next September (wish I'd seen that earlier for this year actually!).

Making plans for the weekend too which is always good

I make that out to be a true Philosophers way of approaching something. you obviously dont need a course!:D

We were going to Avebury and then to Fyfield nature Reserve ( where the Sarsen Stones for Avebury etc wer quarried, magical place, Google it ) but Mrs P has a hurty leg...big time.
So may go fishing, may sort out old clothes, may sit in the garden and read, may do sod all....choices, choices:D

redsquirrel80

pepe2008 wrote: »

I make that out to be a true Philosophers way of approaching something. you obviously dont need a course!:D

:rotfl: If Philosophy consisted just of thinking I'd be a professor!

We were going to Avebury and then to Fyfield nature Reserve ( where the Sarsen Stones for Avebury etc wer quarried, magical place, Google it ) but Mrs P has a hurty leg...big time.
So may go fishing, may sort out old clothes, may sit in the garden and read, may do sod all....choices, choices:D

Poor Mrs P, what's she done? Those are pretty good choices to have, enjoy!

redsquirrel80

OK, I've decided about the courses. Well sort of. I'm not going to do any in work time as I want to take advantage of this busy time of year to build up extra hours for holidays. I might look at an evening one although I know I struggle a bit with that on winter evenings Was looking at a couple of languages (one almost from scratch and one as a refresher) but I might just do some online stuff instead.

I don't think I'm going to do the OU one - there are so many other things I want to do* that I think I'd resent spending so much time on one thing, so that can be shelved for the future. I will look at gardening etc courses again at the start of the year though and in the meantime, read my books and get some real life practise in!

*Other things include lots of running, gardening, travelling, aforementioned language stuff, and a small plan that me and OH have been hatching to walk the Pennine Way over several/ many weekends

(Land_of)_Maz

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

OK, I've decided about the courses. Well sort of. I'm not going to do any in work time as I want to take advantage of this busy time of year to build up extra hours for holidays. I might look at an evening one although I know I struggle a bit with that on winter evenings Was looking at a couple of languages (one almost from scratch and one as a refresher) but I might just do some online stuff instead.

I don't think I'm going to do the OU one - there are so many other things I want to do* that I think I'd resent spending so much time on one thing, so that can be shelved for the future. I will look at gardening etc courses again at the start of the year though and in the meantime, read my books and get some real life practise in!

*Other things include lots of running, gardening, travelling, aforementioned language stuff, and a small plan that me and OH have been hatching to walk the Pennine Way over several/ many weekends

all sounds perfectly plausible and still wooly enough to be flexible!

i wish i was a planner....

redsquirrel80

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

all sounds perfectly plausible and still wooly enough to be flexible!

i wish i was a planner....

I like planning.. not very good at sticking to them though

(Land_of)_Maz

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

all sounds perfectly plausible and still wooly enough to be flexible!

i wish i was a planner....

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

I like planning.. not very good at sticking to them though

i'm so not a planner... i even changed my sig!

pretty woman quotes rock!

becky_rtw

I like to plan and follow through - nothing more rewarding than getting to that goal you've been working at for months and months