The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

Triciaxx

I had a quiet giggle at your 'Magnificent Obsession', MG. MY DH accuses me of that and, sometimes, he's not really joking! It's good to get a job finished and I can get quite ratty if things hang on too long.

Well done on the neighbour's central heating. :T:T:T That will make such a difference to her this winter.

FW, sounds good, though I suppose if it is a business trip, you will miss the best of the day. Can you tell I am trying not to commit the sin of envy? :rotfl:

There is a hard frost here but the sun is out so it will soon go. I gave my herbs the last haircut of the year on Saturday and froze them. Good thing I did!

Excitement here is that my stepdaughter in Kentucky is in labour with her second baby. That will be our 9th grandchild. Amazing how the world has shrunk - she is posting on FB from the hospital so we're hearing more or less in real time.

clairewop

Good morning,

Downstairs all clean and tidy, 2nd load of washing in, 1st load on rads,

Going to get dressed and tackle my bedroom, I may be a very long time, all the clothes piles and ironing needs putting away as it is taking over my bedroom floor and ottoman.

SunFlower

Morning all.

Funny times: At the JobCentre later today (after them messing up and giving me an appointment on Friday morning after asking me were there any times I couldn't do and me telling them 'Friday morning'!), wrote 2 articles yesterday, have noticed a lovely charity that needs help...am busy, busy, busy. Just. Add. Job.

Hope you are all well. I like your time division strategy, MG: seems practical and workable.

Have hoovering and homework to do. See you later!

Memory_Girl

Woooohoooo!!! Having paid the Big Horse Bank back £10K in less than 2 years have finally got through to someone who can make the decision to unfreeze my current account / offset mortgage. When I pointed out that I wasn't fussed if they didn't - but if they didn't I would like the £12 account fee that I have paid for the last two years refunded instead - about £300! if I didn't actually have the facility to use.

So a new card is ordered - and when it arrives I will then have just the one pot to stash my savings - so everything is getting a little simpler.

Looking to be getting this week off to a great start.

MG

Callisto

I haven't posted on this thread for several days, hope everyone is doing ok. I went to the doctors last week and ended up being diagnosed with depression, after I went about something unrelated! I am waiting for a counselling appointment and doctor said to consider taking anti depressants. I probably will ask for these as I am struggling with completing basic household tasks and just feel overwhelmed by my to do list. OH has been not much help at all, he only does something in the house if I ask and even then it is the bare minimum.

I got my OU assignment back and was really pleased with my result of 86%, but I've hardly studied for the last week, so really need to get back to it as next assignment is due on the 24th November.

I have a job interview tomorrow in the next town for an admin role. Would prefer this to having to commute into the city, so fingers crossed.

Cheery_Daff

Fingers crossed Callisto! :T :T And good on the Dr for diagnosing you - hope you can get the help you need and feel better soon xx

Good news MG! Stupid bank. Hope they do reimburse your account fee - can't believe they've been taking it off you all this time! Blithering fiends! :mad: That'll be a nice chunk off the mortgage

Exciting stuff Tricia!

Full of cold here and working at home - only Mr Daffs has invited a friend round for songwriting, so there's one with an electric guitar in the kitchen, and one with a guitar, clarinet and purple child's melodian in the room underneath mine... :rotfl: :rotfl: Am full of cold, trying to write (which I don't do well at the best of times!) and am altogether rather grumbly!

Timer again I think.... and have procured an invitation to a colleague's house this afternoon so things should be a little quieter at least! :T :T

Memory_Girl

Woohooo Just wombled a load of insulation from the pub refurb next door - four huge black bin liners of the stuff. Perfect for DS2's room.

And greenbees parcel arrived and Clooties came on Saturday - so sausage dogs will soon be stuffed and deployed to keep us cosy.

You know as I walk around this house and I see things that I have reused it is really comforting - like being surrounded by friends, lampshades, curtains (as sofa covers), timber remade into doors, tights into sausage dogs ................... its like you lot are all here having a cosy cuppa all the time.

Just call me Madame Cholet:rotfl::rotfl:

MG

Memory_Girl

Just a bit of silliness - but what's your number?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

Apparently I am the 3,616,364,853 rd person alive on earth - who knew???

MG

Helen105

3,233,648,630

Frightening how the world has grown in such a short time.

Marru

Memory_Girl wrote: »

I figured out long ago that you can't do everything ALL of the time.

So I have a "schedule" of the things that MUST be done, then a weekly list of things I would LIKE to do, and a separate list in my book of "projects" I would like to complete.

One the "MUST's" are organised I choose one project at a time and schedule the time to do that ( like the sofa project, writing the script over the summer and building the bedroom right now). This becomes my "magnificent obsession" until it is done and dusted, taking the bulk of my productive time. In the spaces that are left I schedule the stuff I would LIKE to do to make sure I am always moving from my big project to stuff I am motivated to complete.

So at any one time I have one big project on the go, the basics of keeping house and home together and a few fun things to do in my "down-time"

Sounds complicated, but seems to be working so far as I am not concentrating on too many things at any one point. The "projects" just get lined up for me to move onto when I have a block of clear time.

So if your BIG goal is to write a book - you would make that your project and schedule the time to get to your dream first after the "MUST do's" - which for me are things like feeding and collecting the boys etc, pretty much everything else is a "LIKE"

Does that even make sense?

MG

I can feel a mind map coming up. Unless of course you fancy using me as a case study on the other side