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The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Jun. 3rd, 2011 10:09 amHave I mentioned that I hate that phrase? It invariably makes me cry. But This Dork Tower showed up this week all timely like, and I am trying to look forward rather than backward today.
Parenthetically, I almost titled this post "Fight the Future" just because I like the sound of it, but I can't really make it make sense. Even more parenthetically: pundits, that "win the future" phrase from whatever Obama speech it was implies that the future is the prize, not our competition. Its pretty straightforward, I don't know why so many of you got that wrong.
Anyway, the point. It's June and my headache is finally under control but it is also Friday, not auspicious for trying to start new routines that I never intend to follow on Saturday, and I apparently needed about 12 hours of sleep last night because I just kept going back to sleep this morning until I got about that much SO instead of just diving in and trying to DO whatever needs doing, today I am going to try to PLAN how to do stuff.
So, what needs doing?
First and foremost, I need to find a job.
( Job stuff )Secondly, I need to( Health stuff )
Thirdly, getting my house in order, literally and figuratively. There's just a lot that needs doing, from papers that need filing to furniture that I want to move to repairs that should be made. Figuring out what to do with H's stuff. Streamlining my finances. Legal stuff. None of it is urgent, except mowing the front lawn, but it all has to get done and there is just so much that every little bit I manage to do seems like nothing in comparison to what needs doing. It's very easy for me to spend all my time on this one and still seem to get nowhere. I can't let myself do that, Thing 1 and Thing 2 up there need to take priority. But I can't abandon it entirely, either. It's so much easier to focus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else than to try to balance several things. I should probably split this one further so that literal housekeeping doesn't crowd out the more paperworky housekeeping tasks that really are equally important and onerous
Fourthly, it would be nice to get some writing done. Not to any particular end of having a publishable thing or whatever, but just to establish the discipline of writing regularly again. It's good for me.
That....seems doable. I am somewhat surprised.
Parenthetically, I almost titled this post "Fight the Future" just because I like the sound of it, but I can't really make it make sense. Even more parenthetically: pundits, that "win the future" phrase from whatever Obama speech it was implies that the future is the prize, not our competition. Its pretty straightforward, I don't know why so many of you got that wrong.
Anyway, the point. It's June and my headache is finally under control but it is also Friday, not auspicious for trying to start new routines that I never intend to follow on Saturday, and I apparently needed about 12 hours of sleep last night because I just kept going back to sleep this morning until I got about that much SO instead of just diving in and trying to DO whatever needs doing, today I am going to try to PLAN how to do stuff.
So, what needs doing?
First and foremost, I need to find a job.
( Job stuff )Secondly, I need to( Health stuff )Thirdly, getting my house in order, literally and figuratively. There's just a lot that needs doing, from papers that need filing to furniture that I want to move to repairs that should be made. Figuring out what to do with H's stuff. Streamlining my finances. Legal stuff. None of it is urgent, except mowing the front lawn, but it all has to get done and there is just so much that every little bit I manage to do seems like nothing in comparison to what needs doing. It's very easy for me to spend all my time on this one and still seem to get nowhere. I can't let myself do that, Thing 1 and Thing 2 up there need to take priority. But I can't abandon it entirely, either. It's so much easier to focus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else than to try to balance several things. I should probably split this one further so that literal housekeeping doesn't crowd out the more paperworky housekeeping tasks that really are equally important and onerous
Fourthly, it would be nice to get some writing done. Not to any particular end of having a publishable thing or whatever, but just to establish the discipline of writing regularly again. It's good for me.
That....seems doable. I am somewhat surprised.
