Well, well, well…we meet again – Mr. Procrastination and Mr. Crappy Time Management!! I’m pretty sure I caught a glimpse of Mr. Crazy For Thinking I Could Do It All, too. Ambitious is one thing – psycho….completely different definition. I know! It surprised me too!! I do think I want to keep it going though. (Psycho kind of defines me from time to time.) So I’m going to keep it going to the end of November and if I haven’t gotten a wrangle on things (is wrangle even a word – maybe just in Texas?!) – then I’ll slow it down a bit.
Here were the goals for last week and how I did on them:
This means that I did not get anywhere near my goal. 😦
This means that I did work on the goal but did not achieve exactly what I planned. 
This means that I hit my goal – and basically that just proves that I am awesome. B-)
{This}… just extra bits of info.
~ Habit of the Month :{October: Paper Clutter} {November: Menu Planning} So this week there are only 2 days left of October. So I plan to spend at least 15 minutes both days on clearing the clutter out of my office area – starting with my desk. {Didn’t do even 5 minutes either day! I started and then got side-tracked.} Friday will start the new month with Menu Planning. That is tough for me because all of my family members are on a completely different schedule – so I’m excited about making this challenge. I plan to spend 15 minutes on both Friday and Saturday planning a menu. First stop – Breakfast. {Menu-shmenu….phthbpht (that is how I think you spell the sound that your tongue makes when you stick it out and blow), I didn’t do this either. It is going to be a real challenge!!}
~ Read daily :I am currently reading ‘The Read~Aloud Handbook‘ by Jim Trelease. I will read this at least 15 minutes a day. If I happen to finish it I’ll go back and re-read my highlighted sections. And I am going to look more into starting up a book club with my girlfriends. {I did read my book one night and set the timer for 15 minutes. I enjoyed what I was reading so much I actually re-started the timer 2 more times! So I read for a total of 45 minutes – plus I finished the page and a half of the chapter I was on after the timer went off the last time. So technically…I got 3 days worth of reading goals in! 🙂 I did not have time to look into the whole book club thing though.}
~ Blog daily :Even if it is just a thought of the day – I will blog every day in November. {Yeah – so no. However, today is the 4th and I am going to post 4 blogs tonight to play catch up. I am going to mark it red since I didn’t do it last week though.}
~ Health :I will find 25 minutes at least 4 times this week to do my step aerobics video. I burn 212 calories every time I do it! I also plan to hit my goal weight this week to get closer to wining the DietBet I am doing for the Shayloss program! I am only a pound and a half away! There is still time to join the challenge if you are interested! Just click on Shayloss and get started today! {I just burned several calories laughing my butt off at the thought of me actually exercising everyday for 25 minutes. What the hell was I thinking?! (says the completely lazy bum in me!)}
~ Household :I would like to do a load of laundry every day. Wash, Dry, Fold & Put Away. I am currently working on getting the Big Kid and the Mini Me to do their own laundry. So on their days I won’t do the laundry but I’ll make sure they do. {Ok…so I did “some” laundry. I washed three loads, 2 of them are sitting on the table in the laundry room to be folded and put away – which means I’ll have to re-fluff them to get the wrinkles out (because the one thing I do not do… is iron. Ever. Period.), 2 load is in the dryer and I’ve tossed a few things in the washer today. I will get this laundry 3 step system down one day. Or win the lottery and hire a house-keeper. 🙂}
~ Family :I need to make Little Man’s appointment for his 2 year check up and I need to make an appointment for the Big Kid and the Mini Me for their annual eye exams. {Eye exams – check! Have not made little man’s appt. yet. I honestly was waiting for my new insurance packet to come in so I can switch Pediatrician’s. It came today.}
~ Friends :I want to text or PM on FB a different friend everyday that I haven’t talked to in over a month – just to say Hi and wish them a great day! I also want to send someone a card in the mail this week. {I did call 1 friend for no reason and 1 friend to vent but didn’t send any “Have a great day” messages or cards. 😦 }
~ Usborne :I need to make a list of possible charities to benefit from my event in November. I also need to contact 5 daycares every day. I need to do 5 Customer Care Calls at least 3 times this week. I also need to do one YouTube video of the book I choose for the Book of the Week. {Big. Epic. Fail. I thought about charities – I did not make a list. I thought about which daycares I should call – I did not call. I did 1 Customer Call – sort of – I happened to see a customer out and about and talked to her and her husband about how their son enjoyed the books he got from the book fair – but that doesn’t really count. You Tube?! Ha! I viewed someone else’s video and it gave me motivation – but that wasn’t until tonight, and I never even picked a book of the week. Ugh.}
~ Avon :I need to make a final decision if I am going to continue on this journey or let it go and focus on other priorities. {I believe I have come to my final decision – just need to do the final bit of business to make it final.}
~ Office :I will do some email cleanup on each account I have for 5 minutes each every day. That means reading, deleting, responding, etc. {Nope, not even a little bit.}
~ Self :I am going to contact the massage parlor in my town and ask about the 1 hr massage for $30 special I heard about. I will do a painting class this Sunday. {I did not contact the massage parlor – however, a friend of mine told me about another in Dallas. I looked at their website and I think it might be too good to be true. I will be blogging about it soon, hopefully! I DID do the painting class. (I will do a blog about that later tonight.)
This past week my schedule was way off. I normally only bartend on Thursday and Friday – but I covered for another bartender so he could fly his girlfriend to California for the weekend for her birthday (must be nice! lol). So I also worked Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 pm to about 4:30 am both nights – which really threw off my Sunday and Monday mornings – since you know sleep is kind of a big deal.
All in all I didn’t get 1/2 of what I wanted to checked off my to-do list and the 1 thing I did actually accomplish was in my “Self” category! Can you say selfish?!!. I got started late and had so many things going on I just didn’t get all my ducks in a row. 😦 Now that I’ve seen all the red on my list above – I am so much more motivated to get my little quackers ready to quack this week.
And these are my goals for this week — and I am going to try super hard to do better.
~ Habit of the Month :{November: Menu Planning} To make this a little more do-able I am going to commit to cooking twice this week. It’s just so hard to coordinate our schedules, but I am going to make the crock pot my friend.
- Sunday – Everyone fends for themselves. I go to work at 8:00 pm.
- Monday – Early dinner, eating out with kids after eye appt.’s and errands.
- Tuesday – Barbeque Meatloaf (in crock pot).
- Wednesday – Plans with friends.
- Thursday – To each their own tonight. I work from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
- Friday – To each their own tonight as well. I work from Noon to 9:00 pm.
- Saturday – Smothered Pork Chops.
- And I might try this Cheesy Squash Casserole one night….maybe.
~ Read daily :I am currently reading ‘The Read~Aloud Handbook‘ by Jim Trelease. I will read this at least 15 minutes a day. If I happen to finish it I’ll go back and re-read my highlighted sections. The book club thing sounds fun – but I think I am going to put that on the back burner for a bit.
~ Blog daily :Even if it is just a thought of the day – I will blog every day in November. Leaving this one the same. Going to catch up since I am 4 days behind – and then I’ll blog once a day. 🙂
~ Health :I will find 25 minutes at least 4 times this week to do my step aerobics video. I burn 212 calories every time I do it! I also plan to hit my goal weight this week to get closer to wining the DietBet I am doing for the Shayloss program! I am only a pound and a half away! There is still time to join the challenge if you are interested! Just click on Shayloss and get started today! – As much of a joke as last week was I am going to try really hard to make this happen this week. I am also going to visit the chiropractor this week. I’ve been having headaches again and THAT is NOT an option.
~ Household : I am going to “Hard-Core” clean my bathroom this week. I’ll probably pull a Fly-lady trick and just spend 15 minutes in it a day – but in the end it will be magazine worthy – which will make the Mister happy. As much as men like the reason that bras exist, I know he can’t love seeing them hanging from the towel rack every morning…sigh.
~ Family :I will make Little Man’s appointment for his 2 year check up and make appointments for all 3 kiddos to visit the dentist.
~ Friends : I will absolutely choose a friend everyday to send an uplifting message to.
~ Usborne :I need to make a list of possible charities to benefit from my event in November. I also need to contact 5 daycares every day. I need to do 5 Customer Care Calls at least 3 times this week. I also need to do one YouTube video of the book I choose for the Book of the Week. Keeping these goals and adding this one: Calling all of the surrounding cities and getting info on the Chambers of Commerce for each. I have made the choice to move forward with this as my career – so I MUST make these things happen!
~ Avon : I need to touch base with the 3 ladies above me in Avon to let them know my decision. Then I need to begin building my long list of inventory so I can sell it and clean out the space in my living room that has been my Avon office for the last 3 years. This is a good thing…
~ Office :I will do a 27 Fling “Email” Boogie in each email account every day. This means I will take the top 27 emails in my in-boxes and do with them what needs to be done. (Delete, Move, Print, Follow-up, Reply, Unsubscribe) I will also do a 27 Fling “Trash” Boogie on my desk every day. This means I will throw 27 things on my desk in the garbage. 😀
~ Self :I am going to check into the spa in Dallas that my friend told me about. I plan to pick a painting to do in November – maybe 2. I am also going to complete my FAFSA application and touch base with the TCC offices to see about what classes would be best for me to take when I enroll again next semester. (Yes, I realize I am just going to add something else to my plate by going back to school…however – I think I can make a difference in the world and I need to be educated to do that.
And that is that. 🙂 (It is official. I have decided that this is my new self-motivating tag line.)
I use to think that procrastination was my biggest problem… I don’t think that anymore. I’m pretty sure the problem is me! I WANT so much. I’m a pretty selfish gal when it gets right down to it. I’ve come to realize that the things in life that I really “want”, the things that are truly important to me are just as important to my family, and the things in life that “I” really want are not as important. Does that make sense?
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