Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

pania

Now Now madam come on. Pick some bits off now and post it here as a shorter list, or all day that massive long list will just look daunting and demotivating.

So whats going to be first?

I vote..... "Make cup of tea"

Seaxwyn

Never write a list with more than 3 things on it! I read that advice somewhere and it works for me.

redsquirrel80

Make cup of tea
Write list
Listen to CD

Hope you have a good day and get as much of what you need to do done as poss! x

Karmacat

Pania wins! Sorry Seaxwyn! Squirrel! I didn't see your post till just now! You should win! The cup of coffee just got made and is about to be poured:

- cup of coffee.[done]
- virtual trading [done].
- take recycling out.[done]
- email beloved American cousin [done, had missed out yesterday]
- prepare for this morning's mystery shop [well, its printed out, anyway! Better read it then]
- do washing up [mostly done][done, but have created more, of course!]
To be done:
- go do mystery shop, input afterwards or not depending on how it goes [done, not to be input today, need to wait for a phone call].
- buy some soil for indoor basil [done. £1.79 for 20 litres, hurray][oops, already had an unopened bag. Ah well, it will keep].
- buy some chains from hardware store 12 x 15", not for anything funny, you lot - so I can hang the shower curtain and actually use it - it doesn't reach the bath yet, so can't stand up and use the newly-replaced shower [bought a rope washing line for £1, will experiment with fancy looping - there's 20m of it, and I only need about 2m, so there's room for experimen!].
- half a dozen other emails: two potential clients [done one], two relatives, two friends(ooh, how symmetrical) (tho not dfw really, except for the potential clients).
- prepare for tomorrow morning's mystery shops - 3 phone calls, I won't have time to prepare those on the day, never done 3 before in one go.
- matched bet for tonight's game, 4th in a WR of 5.[OOOHHHH, done! And for a change, a diff of only 0.03, yay me!]
- sundry fundraising: desperatebingo, greasypalm, quidco, playboy casino.

- hmmm, don't think I'll have time to do this one while I'm out: check out the book club at Borders[no, I didn't, but thats okay].
- oh I forgot - I have paid work to do! [seen one client, got another later][done, finished for the day]

There you go! The full horror of my list.

Aargh. Forgot the mindfulness CD.

Karmacat

Along with the compost and the shower-rope experiment, I bought 4 wooden hangers, from a poundland-type shop - 4 solid wood hangers, cheaply made admittedly, but in total they cost £1.49. After having seen part of that programme on Monday about Primark (where the decorations on some clothes are done by children living in refugee camps) I really wonder about that....

Karmacat

Didn't do most of the emails, and didn't do the sundry fundraising, but did do some more gardening - depressed myself, actually, all this work I've been doing is on the paths, half the front garden, and the patio, and thats all. Thats about 15% of the total, and when I hopped further up towards the back, I saw quite how overgrown its become. Not at all good.

So I went over to the greenfingered board, and was instantly recommended to a gardening diary site - hurray! That'll keep me focussed in the same way that doing this diary keeps me focussed. I am *so* glad I *used* the feeling bad to do something positive.

Sleep well all.

Keeping_Motivated

You're working hard in that garden Karma so I hope you are taking a few moments to admire your handy work each day which I hope makes you smile rather than focussing on what is not done just for a moment. I suppose the garden is like lots of things in life when baby steps are required to create large strides. So baby steps then admire and be proud.

Take care
KM x

Karmacat

Hi KM! How are you? You're right about the admiring and baby steps. I do admire, actually - and Ive realised something important. My 2nd bedroom looks onto the patio, and cos the garden is so steep, its *all* you can see from that room. Having the patio more in order makes it more likely that I'll use that room, which I didn't expect at all. In fact, I went in there this morning to admire my little windowbox of herbs, which I finally took out of their pots last night. Go, little herbs, go!

hypno06

see....hidden benefits when you least expect them.......and a little inner feeling of "ahhhhh"....does the world of good!

Have a good day x

Karmacat

So true.... same as at the front garden, my bird feeder is just a few feet from the kitchen window, and I can watch them to my heart's content very easily (and sometimes I creep away from the washing up so I don't disturb them!) :rotfl: