Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

I don't think I'll choose them either, Z :rotfl:

A choice I *am* making, which is absolute agony :eek::o:p is to not look at mse diaries until later in the day - a lunchtime thing, probably, and early evening. I've been looking at how I spend the day, where does my energy go, and a lot of what I think of as "prime time", the morning, goes on looking at mse diaries. I love the diaries. I really do :j but an hour (which is almost what it is now) is too long so when I come on in the morning (and I can't *not* come on ) I'll just be looking at the communal threads, and the diaries will be later on ... sad, but true. I need my fix, but it will have to come later :eek:

And I've also been thinking about what I do during the week, and what I do at weekends - with being at home all the time, thats been blurring, so I need to separate that out again so I get some definite "time off", even though I'm still here.

In the meantime, I've still got a bit of cleaning to do, but not too much, before I start work at midday. All of this will help me focus, thats what its all about, as the thread title says - breaking through, travelling on.

Goldiegirl

Yes, totally understand what you are saying about diaries.


In the winter, I've found my best time to look is mid to late afternoon. These dark mornings, I tend to sleep until about 9am some mornings, and if I start looking too much at MSE in the morning, it'd be lunchtime before I knew it


So I tend to get any jobs done, and spend bit of time online in the afternoon. But I tend to look at only a few diaries a day, as I previously have been aware that I was spending far too much time looking at diaries. I really like reading what everyone is doing, but I feel I have to draw the line somewhere, otherwise I'd be looking 24/7!


I try to avoid looking at the internet too much in the evening, as I don't sleep well if I've been looking at the screen too much


I think things will change in the summer, as I'll get up earlier, and hope to have more days out. Then I might look in the morning for a while and early evening


It's a tough one - people shouldn't make their diaries so interesting! :rotfl:

greent

I love a good womble on MSE - but know I can spend/ waste far too much time on here if I'm not careful. I've tried to be productive today and look when I'm on an 'official' break, rather than randomly
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patanne

I found after I retired that I could land up doing far less housework than I did before and could spend almost the whole day on here. So I HAD to get out the trusty kitchen timer that would hold the original time set. Then I did - 30mins with internet various with coffee - 30 mins the dreaded housework - 30 mins play a game (hidden object on big fish my favourite) - 30 mins exercise - and repeat. The result - well still not enough housework done - still not enough weight lost. But without a plan it would have been so, so much worse

Cheery_Daff

:hello: I SO get what you're saying about diaries too I can lose hours (and the best hours of the day sadly) to the internet sometimes, and sometimes before I even get out of bed on the phone, and then make myself late for whatever I'm meant to be doing Good on you for drawing a line! :j

Karmacat

Thank you all! It's sort of reassuring to know ...

But I bet you all remember that phrase, "be careful what you wish for": that post that I wrote, on the 4th, is the last time I was online, or had access to my landline - something funny happened to my phone wire at the nearest telegraph pole :eek: and there was a Talktalk engineer up there this morning, Fixing It for me :j so here I am - 20 minutes before I'm due to start work, argh! Hey ho. So I'll be back on later this afternoon

I love the ways people have of balancing their lives, thanks for sharing lovely peeps :kisses3:

edinburgher

KC - you're into your gardening - can you suggest a hedge that grows to 4-5', doesn't spread far (say 2' max) and flowers?

Karmacat

That's an interesting one, Ed. Anything will need trimming in the end, and if its in the back garden, needs to be thornless for the little one ... my first thought was mahonia, then hazel, then box ... then I thought of PFAF, and they have a great page here: http://pfaf.org/user/Search_Use.aspx?glossary=Hedge but it contains almost 800 plants :eek: Clumping bamboo? Barberry?

A really slow growing tree like yew, or even oak, could be used, but of course pruning and shaping becomes even more important!

What are you using the hedge *for*? Privacy, windbreak, boundary definition? Ooh, just seen quince in that listing. I have a quince, it *definitely* makes a good boundary, but mine has huge thorns. The height is definitely what you're after, but again, plants are living things, need training. You need to think of what soil you've got, too, and whether they're going to be in the shade.

Karmacat

Right, I have a supermarket delivery soon after midday ... and the sun is out after some *serious* rain. I've just signed up for a webinar on writing for kindle, and yesterday I finished a splendiferous novel that calls itself choc lit - someone's used a combination of Richard Sharpe and Mal Reynolds :happylove as her hero, so it isn't quite as "choccy" as it might have been, but all the better for that :heartpuls :j

Today is financial admin day - tax declaration, invoice payment, that sort of thing, and a bit of chopping things up to fit into the bin. No pulsing hearts today then :rotfl:

edinburgher

Privacy, boundary definition. Soil damp but not waterlogged, partially shaded throughout the day I would imagine. Can't be anything that will take 10 years to grow to full size, no more than 5 years I would say.