Daffy's 'patchwork dreams' diary

Cheery_Daff

Gosh I've scared you all off :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

So - I've sat down and gathered together all my projects (well all the ones I can think of right now!) - there's 16 in total, ranging from 'new front door' to 'summer holiday' and 'nephew's birthday present'. I'm sure I've forgotten some

Every project has got a 'next action' to move it forwards :T and its own folder - even if it's only got one piece of paper in it :T

I've got several lists gathered together - next actions for home (computer), home (not computer), garden, calls, errands, waiting for... :T

Next actions range from 'ring plasterer re bedroom ceiling' to 'read newsletter and add dates to diary' and 'find old phone and get birthdays out of it' (just very nearly missed nephew's 2nd birthday on Sunday! :eek: :eek:)

Do you know, I feel remarkably calm and relieved and organised after that! :T :T :T Wondered whether seeing it all written down would scare me, but actually, it feels pretty darn fabulous knowing exactly what I need to do and being able to make a reasonable choice about what to do, rahter than fretting that I should be doing something else.

Let's see if it lasts more than a few hours :rotfl:

and on that cheery note - I'm off to sleep. Just demolished a nice cuppa and the last of the cake squizz left (yes, that was quite a lot of cake today, oh dear! It was very tasty though )

In York tomorrow, so clothes and lunch all ready :T :T Someone give me a shout at half 6 please! :T :T

xx

Karmacat

Hello again! Yep, once I've found you, you can't get away from me :rotfl:

Thats a great summary of GTD Cheery, thank you! I totally agree about keeping everything in one place, definitely. And I agree that while you're thinking "ooh, and this, and that, and the other", you (I) can't concentrate. In fact, that seems to be what my life is like at the moment...

I don't do a "next action" - thats a really interesting idea, to have it written at the top of the file. I suppose because so many of mine are little bits of paper - but then, if I put all my "change this address" pieces of paper together, there *would* be a file ... yep, I definitely like it. Its starting the system up, and keeping it going .... thats definitely what I need :j

Have a lovely day in York! Do you get to have a walk at lunchtime?

redsquirrel80

Wow you've been busy since yesterday! Thanks for a really fun afternoon - I think we sounded not too bad even with the giggling down our flutes when it was too hard :rotfl: Think I wore most of the cake off (mmm cake that tastes of doughnuts ) dashing back to work and then home!

Hope you have a good day and get through all those scary phonecalls.. as for the ferret, I'm not sure the good people of MSE are ready for that strange and curious tale...

Karmacat

Ferrets! We want ferrets!

Cheery_Daff

<waves>

Do you know I've had a LOVELY past few days! :j :j :j :j :j The sun's been shining, that bit of tootling with Squizz the other day was just gorgeous (as was the doughnut cake ), I've had a walk round the hills at sunset the last couple of nights, and all feels right with the world :j :j :j

Oh, and I appear to have had a pay rise yesterday :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: I did wonder whether I would - I think something in my original contract said something about yearly increments, and I've been there a year. But there was no other mention of it. Anyway, it appears to be £1000 a year :eek: :eek: :eek: so £50 a month after tax

I'm feeling a bit of a charity shop summery wardrobe splurge coming on :j :j :j :j

Today I'm working from home - and will be able to work on a few home projects too - main one being getting the darn PhD printed! :rotfl: I was so wound up when I printed it off last time (and it cost so much to do in the library :eek:) that I didn't do myself a copy :rotfl: Hoped I'd get the one back from the examiner, but that appears to have been lost...

Anyway, going to sort it onto CD, and there's a little printing shop on the local high street that will print and spiral bind it for me. Considered having the post binding done, but I actually want to *use* it to write things, so spiral it will have to be! (might investigate printing it out A5 book size though for me to keep properly )

Other than that, cuppa with a friend later, and I've got a free ticket to a friend's gig tonight (also got a spare actually as Mr Daffs now can't come, and everyone else I know either lives too far away, is in hospital, on holiday, or in the band! (seriously, there's about 12 of them :rotfl:) Looks like I'm on my own then :rotfl: :rotfl:

Mission this week is to concentrate on exercise and eating well - I rejoined slimming world, and have lost 5lbs in 4 weeks, which is good, but I didn't lose anything at all last week, and this is the point where I start to drift back into old habits... So I'm going to switch to herbal tea (always makes me feel less bloated), and I'm going to WALK to tonight's gig and back (total of about 5 miles I think), and to tomorrow's party and back (about 6? 7?), do the parkrun 5k again tomorrow morning, and try to avoid TOO many cakes at nephew's 2nd birthday on Sunday

All in all, a cheery day ahead I reckon - best crack on and start work I suppose! :j :j :j

redsquirrel80

Woohoo to surprise payrises :T :T Hope you find something nice to treat yourself to!

Sooo jealous of you being able to wander up to the hills, sounds really lovely. Our tootling has really inspired me - I played a bit again last night - three times in one week after, erm, probably three times in a year! :eek: :rotfl:

Have a lovely weekend

Skint_but_Optimistic

I am imagining the playing of flutes while walking in hills. Like the "little people" may do.
You could stop and have cake to top it off.

Plans sound amazing, great to hear about a payrise, more money is has to be a good thing, are you allocating it to any of your "funds"?

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: skint - I can just imagine us ambling round tooting at the same time! :rotfl:

Not sure what I'm going to do yet. Was thinking the other day I don't actually have a general savings fund - I've got an emergency pot, holidays, the longer term 'patchwork life' one of course, a patchwork skills development one, but don't have a fund to just grow a bit and then think 'oooh, I just fancy those £300 pair of shoes' :rotfl: :rotfl: (not that I ever WOULD, you understand, but you know what I mean!). So I might just let it sit there for a while and build it up. We'll see...

MrsMoo2U

Morning Cheery
:j to forgotten about payrises. I got one of those too. I did what you suggested, I still worked to the budget pre pay rise and scooted the extra across to a "I just feel like it fund" Came in handy last month!

I thought about you the other day when I was sitting in a gorgeous cafe in Bad Ischl in Austria. You would have loved it There were cakes to die for. I did a little blog entry about it in my second blog. There were chandeliers and everything. With about 200 cakes to choose from :eek:
Loved it so much that when I found out they had a second branch down by the river I just had to go down there too :rotfl:
I tell you the Austrians know how to do Kaffee und Kuchen!

Triciaxx

I'm glad you are feeling cheery again. A non-cheery Cheery is not a happy sight.

I had GTD when it first came out and it's really good for that stage when you're juggling too many balls and wondering if one has reached escape velocity and will come careening from behind the sun and hit you behind the ear.

I found it took too much time to maintain over a period but there are traces of it still lingering in my addictive list making. I do have a master list of all projects (large and small) and look at it weekly for 'next actions' which could be done.

I can't remember now who suggested a daily list of just 3 things so you know you can achieve it but that I really find works and I'm so chuffed with myself when I tick off the last one that I usually find another three to do and end on a high. Oh! I like ta da lists as well. :rotfl::rotfl:

As Granny Weatherwax would say "It's all down to headology."