Ah Monday. Monday’s I’ve come to accept that I get into work later than normal. The benefits of having a flexible job. I find that Monday morning is when I get my chores done. It feels good coming to accept this and not fighting trying to get everything done and still get to work early. So I clean up the kitchen, do the dishes, clean out the kitty litter, tidy the living room, make the bed and put away the clothes. And I have a pretty presentable place. The “to do” list is still a mile long, but the place is nice to come home to.
As I was walking into work I started ramping up in my head – thinking of the tasks to tackles for the day. And I open the email and bang – some major project changes. Gotta love that you never know what to expect and life keeps throwing you curve balls from left field. (I like that – great title – curve balls from left field).
This weekend was me in the car driving up to VT for an event and driving back – not a long visit and I felt like the music I played during the drives set the tone. I thought I’d listen to PHC but the radio stations don’t last as I enter the wilderness. So it was an Andrew Bird CD on the ride up and random music stations on the ride back. And now, at work I found a new sound track to listen while I crank on work. It’s called “Radio Awesome” from live 365.com. Pretty decent. I’ll listen to NPR sometimes but have been doing more writing so need something with no talking to listen to. I’ve worn out my music library and need new music. Unfortunately work blocks a lot of the sights like Pandora.
I got mail from Scotland today – new business card proofs to consider. In the package included an info card about the company who made the cards. Interestingly enough they had a procrastination puzzle – top ten procrastination techniques word find. It surprised me a little, one that they had that to begin with, and that the top ten included 8 things I do almost daily. I don’t drink coffee and we don’t have solitaire on our computers. But googling – yup, emailing, yup, facebook – sometimes, lists – yup recently this has been added, doodling – occasionally. But the last three I was surprised. Part of me knew they were procrastination techniques but they resulted in an end product and spoke to my love of organization – there in the puzzle was filing, sorting and tidying. Darn it.
In other news, I was going to write that I’m sitting at 99 in my LinkedIn and the suspense is building on who will be my 100th. But as I take all day to write this, I received my 100th – Colleen. Unfortunately she was out of context so it took a moment for me to figure out who it was – a friend of a friend – more from the craft/baby world. But congratulations to her for being my 100th. And it turns our Cece was my 101th - so close. I’m triple digits now. 100 down, only 400 more to go. Still need to raid the Outlook address book.
In the meantime, I raid the old folder of photos downloaded from my defunct blackberry. These pictures, as you may have figured out, have nothing to do with this post but are of my trip to Phoenix last year (I take that back, it was in 2008 - yikes) and my uncle's porche that I got to drive last year when we had our family reunion on my mom’s side. I just love the image of my not so small uncle fitting into this wee car. It was great opening it up though out on the desert land near phoenix. I learned to pop the clutch and I think I hit over 120. I’ve been tempted to see what my car can do, but finding the flat land with clear site lines is a bit tricky. So am playing it safe (and legal) for now.
And on that note I leave you with a slightly unfortunate sugar high. I made an afternoon run to the drug store and couldn’t remember if I liked Sugar Babies or Milk Duds. Turns out I like them both but don’t they don’t sit well on an empty stomach. Will I never learn…
As I was walking into work I started ramping up in my head – thinking of the tasks to tackles for the day. And I open the email and bang – some major project changes. Gotta love that you never know what to expect and life keeps throwing you curve balls from left field. (I like that – great title – curve balls from left field).
This weekend was me in the car driving up to VT for an event and driving back – not a long visit and I felt like the music I played during the drives set the tone. I thought I’d listen to PHC but the radio stations don’t last as I enter the wilderness. So it was an Andrew Bird CD on the ride up and random music stations on the ride back. And now, at work I found a new sound track to listen while I crank on work. It’s called “Radio Awesome” from live 365.com. Pretty decent. I’ll listen to NPR sometimes but have been doing more writing so need something with no talking to listen to. I’ve worn out my music library and need new music. Unfortunately work blocks a lot of the sights like Pandora.
I got mail from Scotland today – new business card proofs to consider. In the package included an info card about the company who made the cards. Interestingly enough they had a procrastination puzzle – top ten procrastination techniques word find. It surprised me a little, one that they had that to begin with, and that the top ten included 8 things I do almost daily. I don’t drink coffee and we don’t have solitaire on our computers. But googling – yup, emailing, yup, facebook – sometimes, lists – yup recently this has been added, doodling – occasionally. But the last three I was surprised. Part of me knew they were procrastination techniques but they resulted in an end product and spoke to my love of organization – there in the puzzle was filing, sorting and tidying. Darn it.
In other news, I was going to write that I’m sitting at 99 in my LinkedIn and the suspense is building on who will be my 100th. But as I take all day to write this, I received my 100th – Colleen. Unfortunately she was out of context so it took a moment for me to figure out who it was – a friend of a friend – more from the craft/baby world. But congratulations to her for being my 100th. And it turns our Cece was my 101th - so close. I’m triple digits now. 100 down, only 400 more to go. Still need to raid the Outlook address book.
In the meantime, I raid the old folder of photos downloaded from my defunct blackberry. These pictures, as you may have figured out, have nothing to do with this post but are of my trip to Phoenix last year (I take that back, it was in 2008 - yikes) and my uncle's porche that I got to drive last year when we had our family reunion on my mom’s side. I just love the image of my not so small uncle fitting into this wee car. It was great opening it up though out on the desert land near phoenix. I learned to pop the clutch and I think I hit over 120. I’ve been tempted to see what my car can do, but finding the flat land with clear site lines is a bit tricky. So am playing it safe (and legal) for now.
And on that note I leave you with a slightly unfortunate sugar high. I made an afternoon run to the drug store and couldn’t remember if I liked Sugar Babies or Milk Duds. Turns out I like them both but don’t they don’t sit well on an empty stomach. Will I never learn…
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