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

To do: Monday 14th April

• Type up “thoughts” notes from last week
• Add to downshifter:
  • “thoughts” notes from last week
  • “Chinese School” daily schedule
  • personal daily tasks/routine
  • work lessons learned
• Work – see it as a challenge, “what can I achieve all things considered? what transferrable skills can I learn?”
• Reading list
  • The Now Habit
  • Meditation books
• Ebay
• Budget done
• VISA transfer (move from penalty savings to Halifax) done
• Car service/MOT (schedule) done
• Shower and lights – fitting (schedule)
• Languages
  • Keep going with Anki
    • Add Chinese (HSK? Colloquial … when notes done?) done
    • Add more from Minna No Nihongo
    • When JP notes are done add from JFBP
    • Ultimately add from Pimsleur too
  • Pimsleur notes from both Mandarin and Japanese – type up and check
  • Press on with Pimsleur study II
  • Chinese and Japanese podcasts and supporting material!
  • Download notes from JapanesePod101.com before subscription renews!
• Catch up with correspondence on FB
• Stay positive! done

To do: 9th April

• Ebay stuff
  • TY book and cd sets
  • Stuff in box
  • HP Omnibook
  • DVDs
• Fix Toshiba laptop to sell or maybe keep
  • Buy air spray and soft CD case from Maplin done
• Clean work suit(s) ready for presentation in Farnborough taken in, need collecting
• Take old clothes to the charity bin by Sainsbury’s done
• Buy face scrub, toner etc in Boots done
• Get car MOT’d
  • Book in
  • Put it through the car-wash first
• Credit card balance transfer
  • Reinstate RBS direct debit done
  • Move money from penalty-savings to flex-savings
  • Make overpayment on HBOS card
• Figure out how to take the media centre to Japan? Jonathan recommends TNT, removing hard disks and packing separately in electrostatic/tamperproof bags; disk parking not required on modern tech.
• Washing up
• Clothes washing (for tomorrow!)  done
• Vitamin C done
• Passport renewal
• Query about photography course
• Get shower fitted
  • Double check power rating and requirement for RCB box done
  • Buy shower unit done
  • Call electrician to get him booked in
• Do cutting-in on lounge ceiling
• Cornwall house
  • Phone estate agents done
  • Phone solicitors done

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