In which I become organised
Jan. 5th, 2006 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryI'm feeling weirdly organised these days and I think it has a lot to do with this:
I bought it ages ago and had to wait impatiently until the new year arrived so I could finally use it. And it works. Look at all those ticks, indicating completed items! Well, squint your eyes in the general direction, at least. I seem to work best when I write out my tasks for the day and tick them off with glee once they're done. It gives me a sense of direction and, most importantly, it works.
The most significant items for today were up the top and are un-ticked in this photo. They're ticked now. Essentially, they mean that Postcards is finally at a point where it's ready to be sent out into the wide world. At last. Tomorrow's writing task reads: Submit Postcards. The item under it should read: panic madly, but I've left that off in the hopes that I'll procrastinate and not do it if it's not written down.
One of my other tasks for today was to do some weeding and cleaning up of the porch area. Despite my habit of killing plants simply by looking at them, I have this wildly ambitious plan to eventually have our garden looking spiffy and neat. Luckily, I'm being sensible and taking it a step at a time. I didn't take a before picture of the porch, so you'll just have to imagine the weeds and the accumulated leaves and grunge before looking at this after picture.
And since I was outside taking photos anyway, I thought I'd take some more of the front of our house.
Here, you can see the front corner of our house. Items of interest include Pickle's favourite window, known in our house as "Cat TV". She also likes to climb up the flyscreen here, which results in us yelling at her and her getting all sulky.
This is the rest of the house-front, where you can see my nicely cleaned-up porch, Bindi's bedroom window and our bedroom window. Rivetting! You can also see my Timothy's garage right at the back, to which he likes to escape from time to time. Oh yes, and the rubbish bin.
How could I forget the rubbish bin?
It would seem to be time to think of some writing goals for tomorrow. Once I've sent Postcards off and panicked about it, I should probably get to work on my Nunnery story. It has been subjected to some rather helpful critiques over at the Ober.net messageboards. This has been an incredibly productive experience, as many of the comments on the story have caused me to think more seriously about its structure. I knew beforehand that the structure of the story was its weakest point and it has been helpful to have other readers point out why this is so.
All in all, I'm feeling very positive about this story and I'm looking forward to getting to grips with it.
I bought it ages ago and had to wait impatiently until the new year arrived so I could finally use it. And it works. Look at all those ticks, indicating completed items! Well, squint your eyes in the general direction, at least. I seem to work best when I write out my tasks for the day and tick them off with glee once they're done. It gives me a sense of direction and, most importantly, it works.
The most significant items for today were up the top and are un-ticked in this photo. They're ticked now. Essentially, they mean that Postcards is finally at a point where it's ready to be sent out into the wide world. At last. Tomorrow's writing task reads: Submit Postcards. The item under it should read: panic madly, but I've left that off in the hopes that I'll procrastinate and not do it if it's not written down.
One of my other tasks for today was to do some weeding and cleaning up of the porch area. Despite my habit of killing plants simply by looking at them, I have this wildly ambitious plan to eventually have our garden looking spiffy and neat. Luckily, I'm being sensible and taking it a step at a time. I didn't take a before picture of the porch, so you'll just have to imagine the weeds and the accumulated leaves and grunge before looking at this after picture.
And since I was outside taking photos anyway, I thought I'd take some more of the front of our house.
Here, you can see the front corner of our house. Items of interest include Pickle's favourite window, known in our house as "Cat TV". She also likes to climb up the flyscreen here, which results in us yelling at her and her getting all sulky.
This is the rest of the house-front, where you can see my nicely cleaned-up porch, Bindi's bedroom window and our bedroom window. Rivetting! You can also see my Timothy's garage right at the back, to which he likes to escape from time to time. Oh yes, and the rubbish bin.
How could I forget the rubbish bin?
It would seem to be time to think of some writing goals for tomorrow. Once I've sent Postcards off and panicked about it, I should probably get to work on my Nunnery story. It has been subjected to some rather helpful critiques over at the Ober.net messageboards. This has been an incredibly productive experience, as many of the comments on the story have caused me to think more seriously about its structure. I knew beforehand that the structure of the story was its weakest point and it has been helpful to have other readers point out why this is so.
All in all, I'm feeling very positive about this story and I'm looking forward to getting to grips with it.