At the dimming of the day

Many tasks outstanding at the end of my weekend, despite having worked pretty hard for most of it. Hope I’ve had enough rest to stay positive this week! To dos:

• meditate
• blog – 1 hour – bookshop/motivation article (transferrable skills)
• drawing
• tidying
• ffxi crib
• notes
• downshifter pending updates
• pimsleur
• ffxi
• sort handbag

Two thoughts – Saturday 26th April

• On sleep: When I used to oversleep at the weekend, I used to see it as a failure to adhere to my aspirational sleep-regime, and criticize myself. Now, when I sleep for longer than planned at the weekend, it is generally only on one day. If I let it happen for two it will break my regular sleep pattern; stopping this happening gives me confidence my efforts “aren’t all broken/wasted”. It is not ideal, but is useful information that I didn’t get enough quality rest during the week, rather than failure. I also recognise that it means I must have worked pretty hard to need the rest, and that berating myself for that isn’t constructive or what I deserve. I don’t know if all this relates to changes in my attitude towards sleep, or changes towards my attitude towards failure, but either way its all good.
• Thought about blogging; blogging is best when it captures an instant. When I wait to blog, I tend to forget what I really meant to say, or end up with a backlog that never gets blogged. But what really would add value to any blog is working back through it some time later, and pulling out all the really useful information or observations that have stood the test of time. These can be added onto static pages and consolidated, to act as a ready reference.

To do: Wednesday 23rd April

• Catch up with all the notes I’ve scribbled down “to write up on the blog later”
  • Stuff on desk and also post-it bookmark
  • NB: perfectionism, felt I had to type up the earlier ones before I could add more! doh!
• Add the special characters for romaji in the MnN1 anki deck
• Buy more shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, heat protector spray and pink box
• Pick up suits from cleaners
• Cargo trousers ….. maybe …….
• Call electrician to get shower fitted
• Amend Google calendar to reduce study time to one hour blocks and add in “non-productive” time (Now Habit)
• Call electrical suppliers to get converter for lounge lampshade (grrr)
• Load TY cds into media center done
• Finish moving cds from old flight cases into new soft cases
• Ebay some books (schedule sales to start at the weekend)
• Buy more A4 sized Jiffy envelopes for eBaying!
• Order some books with car savings
  • “guilt” book (check)
  • reading list for tefl course
  • check Amazon wish list for anything else

Things to do – 2nd April 2008

Car MOT – schedule

Pay NPower final bill done

Tai chi & Qi gong done, need to find way to successfully incorporate into daily schedule

Correspondence

Meditation

Painting & tidying

Electrician – call & schedule

Money – do budget!! done

Do blog post

Add kanji to Anki done

Mandarin notes

VISA card – another 0% card switch due this month done, detailed on to do 9th April

Mortgage – check what costs will be in summer

Move cd’s into more portable soft case (buy soft case from Maplin)  case bought