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When in doubt, meme

Someday I'll write a real post again, but for now, how about this one-word meme?  (Stolen from Julia who got it from Kathy.)

1. Yourself: patient
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend (spouse): best
3. Your hair: long
4. Your mother: missed
5. Your Father: unflappable
6. Your Favorite Item: sweater
7. Your dream last night: forgotten
8. Your Favorite drink: coffee
9. Your Dream Car: free
10. The room you are in: family
11. Your Ex: disappeared
12. Your fear: failure
13. What you want to be in 10 years? happy
14. Who you hung out with last night? myself
15. What You're Not? done
16. Muffins: pumpkin
17. One of Your Wish List Items: Firebirds
18. Time: flies
19. The Last Thing You Did: recycled
20. What You Are Wearing: sweats
21. Your Favorite Weather: sunny
22. Your Favorite Book: Ahab's 
23. The Last Thing You Ate: sandwich
24. Your Life: scattered
25. Your Mood: tentative
26. Your best friend: husband
27. What are you thinking about right now? blank
28. Your car: old
29. What are you doing at the moment? caffeinating
30. Your summer: distant
31. Your relationship status: married
32. What is on your TV? tivo
33. What is the weather like? mild
34. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday

Checking Things Off the List

Do you ever put something that you've just done onto your to-do list, just so that you can have the satisfaction of crossing something off?  I do.

I've been feeling totally swamped with work lately.  At one of my three part-time jobs - the one where I am the most - it seems like I have so much on my plate that this really should be a full-time job.  But on the upside, being so busy is forcing me to get more focused.

One helpful thing is that I just discovered Hiveminder, a great website for managing task lists.  You can put "tags" on the items, as many as you want, so I'm finding it a useful way to track what tasks are for what jobs, and what location would be best to do them (I do a fair amount of work from home), what things are errands, what are phone calls, etc.  You can then search based on the tags, or priority, etc.  You can also hide items until a specified date... and there are other cool features.  It's pretty great, and I highly recommend it.

Anyway... with no fun knitting projects at the moment, and with little time to spare for blog reading or posting, I'm feeling kind of disconnected lately.  I'm stressed out almost all the time, and haven't been taking the time to practice yoga or do many other things that make me feel happy.  I'll try to work on that.  Hopefully this will pass soon and I'll be back to my cheerful self.