get around to it

I have been neglecting my 43things list for the last little while… but seeing as I’m on leave this week, I think I’ll try to get back into it.

This week I will try to make some progress on:

• fill a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child
• donate my old glasses to charity
• look after my skin
• Simpsonize myself
• make my own cards

taking my favourite boots to the shoe repair man!

One of the heels came off a few weeks ago, and I haven’t been able to wear them since then. They’re my favourite black shoes to wear in winter, and although I have more than one pair of black shoes, I have really missed them. So today, I took them to get new heels. It would have cost $100+ to replace them, but it only cost me $18 for new heels, so I can wear them for another season.

I got around to another thing!

I looked up whether 43things supports the new blogger… and it does! Then, I set up my account so I can post to my blog from 43things, so everyone can see my progress without me cutting and pasting my entries!

is that I am a bit of a procrastinator. Actually, I prefer procrastinatress (there is someone called procrastinatress on 43things).

There are a number of goals on my list that I have been neglecting…
going to the gym,
losing weight (on the list as getting my BMI into the healthy range for my height- but alas, this is a matter of semantics)
painting on canvas
my desk
my filing cabinet
my wedding album

I really need to get around to it…

I got around to another thing!

Every time I hang washing on our balcony, a peg breaks.
For some reason, the pegs I was given by someone kind at my kitchen tea (2+ years ago), are now really brittle, and shatter when touched! They typically snap when I squeeze them apart to put them on the line. They also snap when you step on them, or drop them!

Every time I hang washing on the line, on our balcony, a peg breaks, and I say “I really should just pick up all those pegs, and throw them away”.

Well, today I did. They are GONE!

Today I fixed my mp3 player.

When did I break it?
I deleted the software that came with it from my computer earlier this year (there are posts about it in the February archives of my blog)... and without the software, it doesn’t like to transfer music into it’s memory. It didn’t cooperate with me, and to make matters worse, it forgot how to play music. It could only show me the file names.

Today I was cleaning up my lounge room, and I found the installation CD! And I fixed it.

(maybe I should name ‘it’... any ideas for a good name for a red mp3 player?)

What is “it”?

Well, “it” is all of the great ideas I have, and all of those little things that need doing, that I don’t get around to doing.

I have decided to focus on getting them done- one by one, until I have proved to myself that I can stop putting things off!

• enrolling to vote
• doing my tax return
• applying for another job (this is number 3, another community health position)

I figured that this was a better option than getting myself a “round tuit.” I don’t want to be a procrastinator.