do first things first

Pay the bills!

Other priorities:
return library books (Zimmerman, Waters, Butters)
go thru MLA program
upload photos / clear camera / email R
clear Yahoo
walk with RV at 6:15

If there’s time:
New bubble diagram of yard
New design in a new place for the kitchen garden
Tickler
Journal
Borders
Start sprouts
Find weather radio receipt
B’s bread
Short MLA descriptions to CC

The clean version of the desk. The floor is clean, too.

Assuming there isn’t another shoe to drop, it looks like this encounter with credit card fraud is going to be relatively minor. The credit card company canceled the card immediately and is sending new ones out to us as fast as they can. They will carry out an investigation and send us a report.

Of course, we’d like that report right now since we’re a little afraid of doing anything that might compromise our new credit card or one of our other accounts. But these things take time, so we’re just going to have to assume that it’s not something we are likely to do again and go on with our lives.

I was almost finished cleaning off my desk when we discovered fraudulent charges on one of our credit cards.

So, now, it seems quite important that I reconcile our credit card receipts with our bills—a task I mean to do monthly but, in practice, do two or three times a year. Although, I guess I’m going to be motivated to do it everytime the bill comes in for many months to come.

It’s a good thing I had my desk cleaned as much as I did or this extra flurry of paperwork would have been even more difficult.

This is driving me nuts. This also represents an overflowing email that is the virtual world’s equivalent of a messy desk. So, my goal is to get both of those messes cleaned up in the next 48 hours so I feel like I’m functional again.

Watch for the “after” picture late tomorrow or sometime on Thursday.

I have too many things on my list today, so I’m procrastinating all of it!

I need to choose something to be first. And it is….empty 2 boxes.

Lunch today with a former coworker. So, that plus errands on the way there and back are my first things today.

I’m having a hard time with priorities today and so getting little done and it’s almost noon. Let’s try these and see if they get me going on the rest:

• register for non-credit classes done well, ready, registration starts tomorrow
• make split pea soup done yum!
• write thank yous done

Today’s big thing is to do my third-quarter moon (week) planning, including Gold Time Management and set up systems done to help me monitor my progress on my Best Year Yet goals and subgoals.

• groceries done

• gym done

• bills done

• balance checkbook done

This is a little tricky today.

There are three things on the list that I need to do together with R. Which is at least one too many. It will work best if I let his energy direct how much and what we do on those. So, I guess my first thing is to be open and sensitive to the directions he’s taking in these areas. 2 out of 3 done. Good enough for today

The old me would just kind of wait around acting as if I can’t do anything if I can’t control everything. The new me is thinking it might work better if I have a parallel first things list that are things I can control and can work on while the joint stuff works itself out. For that, I think I’ll do some tasks that will help me keep things for my BYY 2008 goals organized. done