Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

misscousinitt wrote: »

The garden has loads of potential but absolutely no character at the moment. Looking forward to making it mine (ours).

I like that a lot :j Mine is ridiculously overplanted - the actual garden is 30 feet long, that's all, and they've fitted half a dozen rhodendrons, a hazel, a mahonia, and a couple of nondescript evergreens in there! Madness ... I bet you make a lovely job of it.

I've been surging about on ancestry, the free weekend - I've got the people listed, but I decided to really investigate one set of brothers and sisters, born in the 1840s to 1870 (my great grandmother!!). Turns out a lot of the kids were only baptised in their late teens I have some fairly realistic ideas why that might have been so, but I'm enjoying a bit of fantasizing about secret rebelliousness

Stopping now - have a good evening, what's left.

Karmacat

I confess, I had another rootle about on Ancestry, and got to grouping together some family wedding photos, plus those couples later in life, for the rellies getting married later this year. What's the use of research if you can't trot it out now and again? Just pics and a couple of sentences, nothing too worthy.

I've also got the shredding of the accounts almost cleared, draining board cleared and cleaned for tomorrow - I really want to focus on useful work in work time, not the little bits and bobs that can expand to be such timewasters.

Tomorrow is the start of week 27 in my retirement countdown :eek:

- bloggiting admin.
1. Re-applying to Adsense after tweaking the site and checking out the Users Forum.
2. Pinterest - boards I've set up need proper descriptions, they're all a bit blank right now.
3. Need to finish my own listing of web links, passwords and whatnot, so taking care of all this is as quick as possible.


- pruning and gardening is still really important, mustn't let the weeds take over this year again - "KISS" applies


- am reading The Hunger Games trilogy to write about Buttercup the Cat. Poor Me :j:D:j:D:j:D


- setting an experiment with marketing in the future - take one day to write a short book :eek: I *have* already planned it out, and done quite a lot of research. If I can focus in the way people talk about, there's no reason why I shouldn't at least do a first draft - I know I write too slowly, I've always known my research methods are horrifyingly slow, so I might try and speed up the writing bit, at least, since I absolutely love doing the research

- financial admin. Check out what rates my cash is at, and see what needs moving, I have a feeling some does. Use my diary to set up better care of that in future.

Not a huge amount of paid work next week, so I'm hoping to do most of that next week (well, all of it really, but I don't believe that). Reviewing the situation for March comes after that:
- the writing
- researching P2P. Matched betting again? We'll see.

Cheery_Daff

Week 27?? :j :j

Lots of lovely things there! :j Intrigued by the idea of writing a book in a day, sounds impossible! Can you let on what you're writing about?

Love to hear about your garden exploits. Can't wait to get back out in mine but for the time being it's *acceptable* and house has absolute priority. Always good to hear that chipping away a bit at a time (at anything!) DOES make a difference though (and at least the house won't *undecorate* itself once we've finished, even if we do have to keep tidying up! :rotfl:

Have a cheery day

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Week 27?? :j :j

Lots of lovely things there! :j Intrigued by the idea of writing a book in a day, sounds impossible! Can you let on what you're writing about?

:wave::wave::wave: I couldn't do it the way this guy talks about it - John Tighe - but having sorted bookmarks, downloads and got an idea what I want to write, I could **hopefully* write a first draft in a (long) day. This one is about garlic, weirdly history, myths, online sellers, types, care, bugs and diseases, harvesting, preservation and storage, recipes. Its a bit of a cheek for someone like me to write it, maybe, but I *have* grown it for 3 years, and a lot of it is research anyway. Its possibly intended as a giveaway for signing up to an email list on the non-cat blog.

Love to hear about your garden exploits. Can't wait to get back out in mine but for the time being it's *acceptable* and house has absolute priority. Always good to hear that chipping away a bit at a time (at anything!) DOES make a difference though (and at least the house won't *undecorate* itself once we've finished, even if we do have to keep tidying up! :rotfl:

If I had your timescale, that would be my priority too, Cheery - I'll be here at least another two growing seasons, I think, I can't get any serious work done on the house until after I retire (I can't take the stress of juggling the work and the clients) and I need to get those brambles hacked back to the "acceptable" level, which is the crucial one, as you say :rotfl:The chipping makes an incredible difference :j

Have a cheery day

You too! There's got to be a trademark in there somewhere :T
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My night was *not* cheery. Neighbours woke me at 3am with hammering. Hammering! Breaking new ground, and it kept on, on and off, for 40 mins, so I did something I swore I'd never do - got my dressing gown on and went round. Turns out they were justified - their leccy went kapoof, with a burning smell, and the hammering was a UK Power Networks bloke. I said I was glad they were safe. The lack of apology/concern does remind me that I live in a safe, middle class little bubble, where everyone I'm in touch with is actually really nice. That's not their world, even though the wife there is cringingly apologetic for existing poor thing.

What I *did* do, is take a walk up my road, dressing gown and all :rotfl: it was quite nice. Then I had a cup of tea and read a kindle book - no use trying to sleep with that going on. Does mean I'm a bit zombified today, and hey ho goes the focus I talked of last night, but this is the real world

Watty1

You've made me re-think the writing a book as a give away idea. It was on my list of things to do when the urgent is over. The whole write it in a day intrigued me.

Karmacat

I hope thats rethink in a *good* way, Watty? Depending on the subject, the length, and the groundwork already done, I do think its possible. What would you be writing yours on?

Watty1

Karmacat wrote: »

I hope thats rethink in a *good* way, Watty? Depending on the subject, the length, and the groundwork already done, I do think its possible. What would you be writing yours on?

Yes it was in a good way. I'd be writing mine on an aspect of the business (am happy to say by pm but haven't put here as it would make it very easy to find my company).
First tho I'm focusing on the KM declutter and my health issues. Your comments (and others) on my diary helped me prioritise

Karmacat

That's great to hear! Shutting down now, as I'm working at midday (I keep saying that ... ) but I'd love to hear via pm what you're planning.

Speak to you later

Karmacat

Work went well, and eventually I started up on here again. I've done No 3 of the bloggiting admin: finish my own listing of web links, passwords and whatnot, so taking care of all this is as quick as possible.

It's quite a lot of faffing, to be honest, but its done, which means that everything is easier to log into and its easier to remember what goes where Now I've got all that together, I can tidy things up - I see I have an Amazon link listed on one of the blogs, no idea how to use it. My link with Amazon has been good to me, so I'll try to sort that first.

Karmacat

Ugh, I'm just writing a stream of consciousness blurb here so my head doesn't explode while I'm on hold with my professional organisation. They sent out a 2nd survey to members recently, wondering why they only had 20% who thought they were doing a good job. Whats happening right now is one of the reasons why, I guess: we need to do professional re-accreditation each year, 30 hours study, absolutely fair enough, of course. But:

1. any accredited member also has to sign up to a register. Only accredited members can sign, so it only lists accredited members - there's no point to it, in other words. But if I don't do it, my accreditation is revoked! Meaningless make-work.

2. Like any other website, you can change your password, if you've "forgotten" it. I haven't forgotten it, but it won't take it on board. So I changed it. And it still didn't take any notice. This happens every time. The website is very keen to tell me that I only have 1 password attempt left, so I'm not going to use that because then you get locked out, and there's hell to pay. So now I'm on the phone to them (on hold, I was no 14 in the queue, no wonder!). The staff are mostly reasonable, some of them are even nice, but the well meaning drivel has overtaken everything, and nobody **thinks**.

Argh!

All right, I'll walk it off till they answer. Eventually. Been on 13 minutes now.