Saturday, May 27, 2017 @
9:50 am
- @ 10:22 am Good morning.
This is just us. It is a late mid-morning start to the blog.
I'm trying to be ok with this. It feels like we REALLY need a
blog AA meeting. Know we don't drink often, but we DO have problems
avoiding writing, which is the thing we want to be the number one
priority.
- There … we’re going to see how
this goes. We go back and forth, whether, we like to write in Word
or Evernote, but we’ve just switched now to Word, with Evernote in the
background and although I couldn’t find checkboxes, we still have bullet
points, AND we switched the spacing of the lines, so it is now at 1 ½,
which make it feel less congested and scary. We also got our yogurt
– this time, peach! That makes us feel better AND the last time we
were up – just a few moments ago, we switched loads, so our first loads
are in the washer and dryer.
- Hmm, just switched interests
for a second. We just started listening for information on Jared
Kushner who has a problem recording his conversations to other countries
through clan-descent methods. The TV was just turned on, but it is low …
maybe we better turn it up a smidge. I think we’re edgy. We
turned up the TV, but then, we went around the house and picked-up things
on the table and opened mail – just two envelopes, and then we brought
something back to Rich’s office – well not too much, but the thing is, it
seems that when we stand-up – seems like we’re looking forward to it and
we’re looking forward to moving and getting stuff done. Oh, I know …
we also cleaned off the table in the living room – like to clean them
too. There, that is done too and then we stopped in the kitchen and
cleaned off my clean blender from the top of the stove and we straightened
up the top of the microwave. Very busy bee!
- I feel better about doing
this entry. Not sure what we’re going to talk about, besides
housekeeping, but I know we’ll get there too. First thing I see
other than the Evernote behind my word document is the Daily dashboard of
our rescuetime. It shows, we’ve been online for four hours and 19
minutes, and that we have a production rate of 84. The top areas are
Business, Communication & Scheduling, and then Reference & Learning.
My big business tasks have been Trello, Evernote, Housecleaning and
Rescuetime. The top Communication & Scheduling areas have been
meeting with Rich, going through my emails, and checking out my Google
calendar, and then Reference & Learning? Those areas have been MyFitnessPal
and Zillow.
- A lot can be said for all
this. The biggest thing though is Trello – my number 1 activity of
the day. We’ve been doing some good figuring and moving things along
there. Let’s go back into some of that, because it will spill out the
things that we are thinking about. I would also like to say, we did
spend 15 minutes of time with Linda, but not much was covered. I
gave her a copy of our “activities,” but I don’t think she’ll do much with
that, and she was headed out the door with Tony. AND, Rich has been
here this morning watching fishing, but he is now at his mother. He
had a couple things to bring her like a ham bone and something picked up
at the grocery store, but I think it’s just a regular visit.
- So, Trello! Maybe we’ll come
in the back door. I think we’re going to open several boards.
You can have as many as possible, but our main one is under our name, but
this SECONDARY one, was a suggestion from Dr. Marin on Thursday. He
suggested, we open a board with hard stuff we can talk about. Last
week, we had our Trello Board set-up and had given him the password so we
could talk about it, and I guess this was a good idea, because we are
doing something new and interesting that we’d not done before. We’ll
see over time if it works out. The Board itself is average in its
title. It says, “Board to curate hard things to talk to Dr. Marvin
about.” And then, for now in the background, we happened upon a
picture which is now in six tiles, but it is a picture of a sheep jumping –
looks like a frolic on a simple greyish background and it says, “When in
doubt, FROLIC. Hehe … I think it’s our way of letting off a little
pressure. It reminds me that in back of all this seriousness there
is still fun to be done.
- So far, we have three
categories. They are problems w/desires to overeat, Rich-like
problems, and household problems. The first card in the first
category is about overeating yesterday, and then there is a card about
getting Rich to be using Trello before he goes on an eight-day fishing
trip this week, and then the household problem is about getting the floor
done. In each, we’ve opened a conversation or more like a checklist
of “Problems/Solutions.” I won’t go into all the details at this time,
but reserve my ability to do that later … Now? Let me see …
- 5/27/2017 We had another problem on Friday, 052617.
We were ok on calories, But was 60% over in carbs and 49% over in sodium
it felt like a crisis on Board t…
- 052717 we were over in that
we had our normal protein shake in the afternoon, but then ate bananas,
then ate pineapples ... fortunately Rich came home, but we then ate a big
dinner of TWO cabbage rolls and had started on chicken
"noodle" soup, PLUS knowing all this we kept dessert yogurt
- 052717 We knew as we were
eating that we had to stop, but bullnosed into the next item and next
almost w/purpose though we weren't conscientiously understanding what it
was
- 052717 Now the day after, we
are doing fine, but feel guilt and shame about yesterday, without knowing
what happened to us, or how to stop it.
- 052717 We always get the
faithful part of thinking "we don't care"
- AHA! We can do
it! Get the copy of tasks ON the cards to my Word document
through copying the “print” version. We had to clean it up a
bit, but it wasn’t impossible. We also took the link and added
it to the title of the card, so if you really WANTED to follow the card,
AND it hadn’t been erased by the time you looked, you could look at the
card and follow along. LOVE it! In discussing the
card – eh. It’s just our problem right now. It’s a
very long-standing program, and because we’ve lost so far, 25 pounds, we
do have SOME handle on the problem, just we have bleeps and that means
that we still haven’t resolved one of our basic problems on having a
strong desire to eat more than we desire. So, there is that
conflict and within a multiple system, we usually say ok … there are parts
that want to eat right, and there are parts that want to eat whatever and
whenever they want. Something we know between the two, is that
the latter is out more when we are tired and have less resistance.
- Maybe if we were Dr.
Marvin, we would ask something like why were you tired, or when tired,
what could you have done to prevent the overeating. Like right
now we’re thinking the most obvious, is to settle ourselves down to taking
a nap until the craving has passed. I don’t know if that is
realistic, though more realistic here at home than if we were out where
things could be purchased to eat. That’s another problem. ESPECIALLY,
if YOU are the one driving the car. Should we talk about Dr.
Marvin’s and BK? NAW … that was a long time ago. BUT,
that’s what was happening when we drove ourselves, so we better throw in
caution now, because soon we’ll be driving ourselves again. BUT,
that is a side issue. The main issue is eating in the house
since that is where we are at most often.
- I don’t really want to think
more about this now though, because we were talking about Trello and I’d
like to get back to that. I’m going to put out a picture of
where we are at with the day. It’s really a double picture, but
you get the idea, right? It’s a wide screen 😊
- @12:39 pm We’re back. It’s
now after lunch, and Rich had come home and is napping, and we’re still
washing clothes and we re-cleaned the kitchen after Rich was through
there, and we’ve checked through our lists of things to do. We
updated a few things. Nothing much here … Let’s get back to the
Trello program. We HAD been on the board for Dr. Marvin, but
that one only has a few things. Let’s go back to the main
purple boards pictured above. BTW – if you click on those
pictures, you’ll be able to read them YAY!
- The main part is that you have
easy to make – by hit of return columns and cards within the columns and
either are extremely easy to move around. We have 13 cards
right now. They are: open for now, in progress – today, in
progress – tomorrow, Quick tasks, in progress – later, to read later when
there is time, moderate tasks, long-lasting tasks, questions, tasks for
Rich, Rich’s work (PPA) tasks, completed tasks & resources.
- In the first row – open
for now – We have condensed the tasks down to four. The first
one – by design – is a doozy. It’s our “lite” tasks to be done
immediately during the day. I think we may have talked a little
about this before, but there are checklists within the major task. The
first is that we are getting pop-up windows from someone named reflect
that is the first task. We are going back and forth. I
send them a note, they send me an auto note saying they will consider it
soon BAH! The next item on the checklist is the steps to taking
care of the kitchen floor, then we have a training video to watch, then
laundry, and now a “situation” with Walmart. They want to
charge us more money than we believe they should be charging us.
- The next cards are simpler …
the first reminds us to make notes in Dr. Marvin’s new board, then one
note to work on taking pictures of ALL the old receipts for the year, and
then the last one to look for Advocate Home Care to call us for our new
C-pap machine. Woohoo!
- The things in the next list –
in progress – today have five things listed – most of these things were
condensed and some have been moved over to the next column which is the
things to repeat the next day. I always have a card reminding
us to maintain our routines of learning and curiosity, work, play, health,
medicine and then food, drink & water. After that, we have
a long reminder to check Trello, Evernote, emails, phone calls,
MyFitnessPal and Rescuetime during the day. Then is my blogging
reminder – and after that I’ve only got spending quality time with Rich
and the animals.
- The stuff for tomorrow, we
already did today was first the part we collected our morning stats, then
we checked news and our clarity journal. Then was our big task
of sorting/clearing the inbox, numbering the items, and then moving them
through from table of contents, to master notes, and then to Monthly
overview. Believe me – that’s all necessary for everything else
to work in our life. I’ve also got reminders for working on my
Financial Peace homework and sorting papers in the desk’s cubbyhole.
- I think we’re going to stop
there because everything else is lists for something that we’re not
working on right now – and maybe not even working on at all for the entire
day. Maybe we should check that out – it would help us condense
our worry load. I suppose the way the process is supposed to
work are that there are a few “free” lists with stuff to do, but the main
lists are the easy, medium and harder things to do, so it would depend on
how busy we were as to getting other things done. Like are any
of those goals, we want to work on over the weekend? I think
that the FPU card – includes working on the budget and that’s a BIG task. BUT,
it’s time dated too. Our leader in the group wants everyone to
come up with a budget for June and that is only three days until the next
class she wants to look at it, and two more days til the start of the new
month. Everyone wants procedures in place.
- I can be VERY sure that after
that tasks and some mentioned earlier, we have no more time for other big
tasks. The biggest and hardest to let go is the editing work on
our e-book. We had hoped to push that along, but I don’t think
it’s happening. The budget project is too big. Maybe
we can scan over the list to assure nothing else has priority, and then
set some time goals for how long tasks are supposed to take and then
schedule them into my day – YES and still get laundry done. Oh,
and Rich wants me to go to his club with him later today to get stuff out
of his boat for the big trip. PLUS, it’s 1 pm, and we’re not
even dressed yet. SHEESH!
- Hmm, just a little
interruption. Just had to wrangle with Rich to clear some time
to go over the Trello. Basically, what we’re asking for is
ANN-TIME! We went back and forth and he’s listing out stuff –
none of it is thought through, but it’s taking a whole weekend. THIS
is what we’re trying to prevent – this getting blown away with things,
because it isn’t ordered. I KNOW what he goes through before
fishing and it is a terrible time for both, and then when he gets back, he
goes through the same terrible time. This is going to prevent
it by organizing and PLACING it somewhere so he doesn’t have to worry
about it, but still has a place to find it nice and neat when he gets
back.
- What we finally got out of him
was that he was going out in the yard or in the garage to do fishy stuff,
for the next 3 hours. Fine! Then he has an hour off
to chill – between 4-5 pm, and then he’s going to make dinner, and then
we’re BOTH going to do the boat, and then AFTER the boat, when it is
getting darker, he will sit with me and go through Trello. If
he hasn’t closed his ears all the way, he will have some idea of what’s
going to happen, but most likely he’s closed-off. What will
happen is that we’re going to give him a five-minute tour, but mostly, we
are going to open his own board – call it like he may.
- Hmm, he just went through
again. He was reminding us of this or that, we were forgetting
just remembered the part where we asked what we were going to eat. Hmm,
and then another time spurt – we got our message we’re trying to pay
attention to where every 55 minutes, we stop what we’re doing at the
computer, and for five minutes, we do something else. This last
time, we went in to the bedroom, and looked at our bench under the
window. It had some stuff that didn’t belong there, so we
figured out where it goes, and then distributed it, and then we found our
coat in the sunroom and figured it should go in the wash, so we brought it
there. Surprisingly, we only have 1100 steps for the day, but
then we started two hours of our day where we didn’t wear the Fitbit,
because it was charging. *Sigh* I think we left off on we were
looking to see if ANYTHING other than blogging and budgeting had to be
done. Wait again, please 😊 Oh and we have to
do the boat and Trello with Rich, but THEN today is done
- Ok, good, great! I
can honestly say that I don’t have to do anything else today, except blog
and budget and boat and Trello. Shoot should have surveyed
anything for tomorrow except the routines? must do floor, but other than
that – tomorrow we can skip the blog and just do the budget … NOTHING
ELSE. AND, what’s more, if we could just straighten out where
we left off, we could probably set it up right now so that it’s ready to
be productive tomorrow. OK? Let’s just do that part 😊
- @ 5:02 pm Yay ...
we're making progress, though somewhat slow and balky. We did a
big push on the wash, and now everything is put away and the bed is made -
thanks to Rich's help. He's been inside for about 45 minutes and we
watched and played with him as he tried on his rain suite ... give me a
few moments for uploading and I will post a few cute ones hehe. He's
my perfect person. If you read this and you are relating to his
friend, PLEASE don't tell him about the pictures. We want to post
them with our regular stuff, but he'd prefer not to be seen. Little
conflict. Pretty soon we’re going to have dinner … Rich has been in
the kitchen for 15 minutes! It doesn’t seem like too long, because
we had to fix the pictures. Just ONE picture, really – they are all
grouped together. Can’t blame me for that – ISN’T he CUTE!??
He’s getting ready for fisheyland.
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