Hi
Had to leave early this morning for a photo organizing class at the library,and lunch with GFs afterwards. Busy day.

Marked off a couple of goals.

Cannot work the closet, the door opens awarkwardly to use. Still a good excuse to go thru both seasons.

apr goals

do 5 b/s /week of cleaning
read 75 email 6 days/week
run 5 errands/week
read 1 hr 6 days/week
menu plan at least 1x/week
see jay 2x/week
sleep 6x/week

about the only goal i kept up was sleeping almost every day

the house is filthy.... no dusting or vac, no swept or scrubbed floors or toilets or sinks. no reading of email or books til the last 3 days or so. however, i am eating, i am taking baths, i have got a few errands done, i have washed the sheets about twice and washed clothes. most of my eating was prefixed (canned or in the freezer)

i got the car inspected (2 trips), bought cigs about 3x, went to 2 reg dr's appt, made a trip to the reg grocery store and another to bj's and wrote checks for all the stuff crammed into the mailbox that i knew were bills. i also ran the dw about 2-3x and scooped the litterbox in time and metro always had food and water.

mary

Mary
You did great in keeping up.. Hoping you are feeling better now.
I was worried when you didn't post.

I was able to get a few things crossed off.
Have to have the car checked for the state today. Few other errands to do, as long as I am out.

Have a great day all.

Mary, sounds like you are keeping up with the important stuff. 75 e-mails a day seems like an awful lot of e-mails to me. I don't get half that number in a week, and that includes work-related e-mails! I'd feel overwhelmed if I had to read through that many e-mails in a day!

Mary, good to see you back. You did well to keep up with the important stuff (after all, you will get a great sense of achievement when you finally clean house if there is some good dirt to shift, LOL.

Just finished dinner. Picked up some herbs and a plant for the back porch. Didn't have the hanging begonia as she wants to wait until Moher's day to bring it over, will call me when she does. Picked up two tomato plants, dill, basil and chives for a starter. I plant in flower pots so that is my garden so far.

Mary....Listening to your body and just doing what it tells you to do is sometimes the best thing. When I feel blah or tired, I lie on the couch like a big ole potato and veg, nap, watch DVDs, read, and nothing else gets done. But...that's OK. I'm taking care of ME because nobody else is going to do that. If it turned into a month or something like that, then I would worry, but a day or two here and there is just fine. I'm on the opposite end as you as I suffer from panic disorder, but I know that I must take my downtime or the panic disorder gets out of control.

I've been feeling a bit "off" today. Partly because I was up until midnight finishing a book that was due back at the library today and then the cat woke me up at the crack of dawn because he wanted outside. Then, of course, I couldn't go back to sleep. I'm an 8-10 hour a night kind of gal. Not because I'm lazy, but because my body needs a lot of sleep. And, on top of that, my DM called to tell me that she had read R's dad's obituary in the newspaper. Not surprisingly, nobody from his family called to tell me. I didn't expect they would. Apparently, he died this past Sunday. I'm not feeling any sadness over his passing, just sadness about the whole sick situation with R's family and me. I'll get over it quickly though as there is nothing I can do to make them any different than how they are. It is actually a little bit of a relief because now I won't have to worry about running into him at the store any more. (I think it's my lack of compassion over it that has me kind of disturbed.)

I'm slowly making my way through my goals list for this month. I finished sewing a blouse for DD on Tuesday evening. She wore it yesterday. I'll try to upload the pictures later. Next up, I will be working on a nightgown for myself and more work on the T-shirt quilt.

@mary I agree with Carol. Sometimes putting one foot in front of the other is good for a while.

@Carol I wish I could sleep 8 hours. I think that is great that you listen to your body like that. I think most of need that much sleep but won't admit it.

I finished DHs labcoat for the workshop. He wanted it out of denim and it turned out great. I made a mistake but in the end it looks ok. I think I had that for an April goal and now it is done.

I am taking on another client at my part time job. It is temporary. Every other Sat from 7-2p. It will be the same Sat I work 5-8p for my other client. This will help us meet our goal of saving for the next 3 windows. I will still have every other weekend off which is what I need to maintain our own home.