From Trash to Cash: Dribbling a river

greenpixie_2

2cats1kid wrote: »

Morning Mabel! :-)

Having a lazy morning here. DH has taken DD to orchestra and then I'll join them for the concert later. Really needed just to chill for a bit as v. tired after being ill all week and having to keep going. Have done 15 minutes tidying the bedroom though ;-) and will go and do 15 minutes in the kitchen in a bit.

What does she play?

I used to do all kinds of orchestras when I was younger Dorset Youth, South west music centre and some local ones. I loved it.

Miss it now I'm at uni, even though I'm studying music there aren't enough of the right instruments to make a real orchestra. There are very few of us strings when we are meant to make up nearly half of the orchestra.

Hope you're feeling better

Crafty_Toots

2cats1kid wrote: »

Yay, Cagne! WTG you!!!

Toots that sounds a lot like timeboxing to me. First came across it in software development where you have an absolutely immovable end date, so you just split the work up into chunks that end at that date and just do the best you can in that time. If you can't get it all done, then tough, you just change your expectations of the project. Flylady (in her proper form, not the form you will see on the OS board, which actually isn't Flylady at all and if she found them using her name for what they are doing they'd probably be in trouble) is all about 15 minute time boxes. However much you hate cleaning/ironing/dusting/doing your tax, you can do it for 15 minutes then STOP! If later on you choose to do another 15 minutes, that's great, but you have accomplished your task and you can feel good about it.

That's why my to do list constantly has 15 minutes of this, 15 minutes of that on it - I got into the habit through Flylady and it works. I allow myself a few minutes on the PC or having a coffee or something between the 15 minutes and I gradually nibble away at what I have to do.

Thank you thank you thank you 2cats, that's precisely what I was after! *hug* I talked about it before and did absolutely nothing. Then last night when my brother texted me saying he and girlfriend (who I'd never met) were coming over, I panicked and thought aaargghhh the house is a tip!! So I flew around like I was possessed, knackered and panicking (not that she would have cared a jot, but you know...) and all the time I was thinking to myself, for goodness sake, if you kept on top of it properly this wouldn't happen..... manageable chunks, that's what I need. I always go nuts when OH is due to arrive home and clean everything in sight, maybe I can do it as I go along and save myself the stress! If I do things this way (not just housework) then I won't feel 'guilty' for the enjoyable sitting on my beeeehind doing nothing moments!

moneymabel wrote: »

Yay great news Cagne!! fantastic :-)

Morning Toots and 2cats :-)

Afternoon Mabel! *waves* How are we today??

Toots x

2cats1kid

Hi greenpixie, welcome to the thread.

She is a strings player predominantly. She is working towards grade 7 violin at the moment and is doing a Vivaldi alternate for her A piece, Adoration for her B piece and Souvenir de Sarasate for her C piece. I love Sarasate and drive her mad going round humming it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAz3ribyNY NB this isn't her LOL, she's not this good at it yet!

She is also working towards grade 5 alto sax and will start her grade 5 piano soon - probably next term. She wants to do music but has her heart set on music college/conservatoire as she's all about performance. Where are you studying?

She plays at a workshop on Saturdays doing string orchestra then folk fiddling then main orchestra. She loves the folk stuff and the guy teaching it does it all by ear which is fab ear training for her too. She's doing a Mahler piece in main orchestra which is stretching her! Then in the summer she is off to France with a youth orchestra for 12 days. It's for 12-18 year olds : 25 British, 25 French and 25 German and they rotate which country it is held in, so this year it's in Montpellier, then next year it will be in Cambridge and the year after in Heidelburg. She's really looking forward to that and we should be told what the programme is in a few weeks so she can get some advance practice in.

Sorry all you others who have heard about DD's music already!

2cats1kid

Toots, if it is mostly about housework then check out www.flylady.com and follow it - it really does work! I've fallen off the wagon a bit, but because of all the groundwork I've done along the way it doesn't take much to get a tip back into a decent state again. You don't actually clean much at all to start with - she is all about decluttering and how if you have too much "stuff" you spend all your time trying to contain it and move it from place to place, so I spent the first few weeks in her "zones" just decluttering. It makes soooo much difference.

jo70mo

Toots I talked about a time management book early onin the other threads called The now habit. that might have been it he talks about scheduling things you like to do and then in the gaps inbetween thinking what can I do now for 30 mins and no longer. can't describe very well right now.
also Dilli mentioned something a while back too - not sure if it was a book or just describing how she does it all but sure that was about time segments too.
Jo x

jo70mo

also a book called the messies manual. similar but different to flylady.
Jo x

greenpixie_2

2cats1kid wrote: »

Hi greenpixie, welcome to the thread.

She is a strings player predominantly. She is working towards grade 7 violin at the moment and is doing a Vivaldi alternate for her A piece, Adoration for her B piece and Souvenir de Sarasate for her C piece. I love Sarasate and drive her mad going round humming it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAz3ribyNY NB this isn't her LOL, she's not this good at it yet!

She is also working towards grade 5 alto sax and will start her grade 5 piano soon - probably next term. She wants to do music but has her heart set on music college/conservatoire as she's all about performance. Where are you studying?

She plays at a workshop on Saturdays doing string orchestra then folk fiddling then main orchestra. She loves the folk stuff and the guy teaching it does it all by ear which is fab ear training for her too. She's doing a Mahler piece in main orchestra which is stretching her! Then in the summer she is off to France with a youth orchestra for 12 days. It's for 12-18 year olds : 25 British, 25 French and 25 German and they rotate which country it is held in, so this year it's in Montpellier, then next year it will be in Cambridge and the year after in Heidelburg. She's really looking forward to that and we should be told what the programme is in a few weeks so she can get some advance practice in.

Sorry all you others who have heard about DD's music already!

I study contemporary music composition at Dartington college of arts, well have like less than 2 months left. The my uni shuts down :-( all the first and second years are going to Falmouth. Won't be the same though its becautiful here

Reminds me of me. I used to do two orchestras on a saturday string orchestra and the local orchestra, Dorset youth strings/Dorset youth orchestra on some sundays. There would be Allington strings on a monday and then there would be the two school orchestras that I belonged to as well. I did the whole france thing as well.
Never managed to do the south west youth orchestra cause i didn't have the money and I paid for all lessons and the orchestras myself after the age of 16.

elly68

cagne i did my ppi claim posted on board 2-3 yrs ago against nothern rock had my 5000 within6 weeks of posting martins letter,had only used the threads at that time to complain about halifax actually thats a good idea because they need dates yes halifax again as i have been paying an insurance premiun for last 2-3 yrs that should have been cancelled .so will be able to check my posts for dates

cagneuk

I found this on the now habit, which has a very insightful mindmap.
http://litemind.com/the-now-habit/

jo70mo

It was that mind map that inspired me to buy the book cagne! Book has a lot more to offer I think. just in terms of more prose and the psychology of it if that makes sense.
Been sent to bed by DH and he's taken kids out. had said I would go curtain/ chair/ table shopping with my mum but physically can't do it. plus supposed to be going out for dinner with her tonight. so come to bed for a little bit to see if it helps. at least I have you lovelies for company.
Jo x