score over 90 on cleansweep

I have not finished:
1. Filing, but can finish soon.
2. Tidying my home. It is presentable, but not good enough to check the box.
3. Ironing & mending. Ironing soon, mending once I get back from vacation.
4. Using caffeine. It’s Christmas candy week – I refuse to abstain from the festive chocolate.
5. Using sugar. Same reasoning. Merry Christmas and sugar highs to all!
6. Getting my cavities filled. I’ve seen a dentist in the last six months, but I need to stop procrastinating & follow up on this.
7. Making my bed daily. It’s so chilly in my house – I just rush off to get dressed asap! I’ll work on it.
8. Tossing out the crap in my closet from the previous occupant. Much progress has been made, and more will happen soon. I get to tear up a nasty old beanbag chair!
9. I don’t laugh out loud every day – I smile and chuckle often, but outright hilarity is elusive in these days of smalltalk.
10. Whoops! I got a bit behind on a couple of bills … the bank hasn’t been open when I’ve been by to try!
11. Letters & Calls – I’ve been writing tons of Christmas & New Years’ cards. Two letters, Christmas phone calls to the family, and about three emails to do and I am square.
12. Writing a will – I need to flesh this out, the ideas in my head won’t do any good if disaster strikes!

This is crazy. If I’d have done a little more this week, I’d have this completed. I’ll be able to check it off so soon!

My living situation is completely different, so the things I need to fix are not the same.

I need to go to the dentist. I need to find a dentist that speaks English, and get myself fixed up.
I need to stop biting at my nails. I haven’t done much, but the raggedy cuticles have to stop.
I have to stop this habitual laziness and get into a routine over here.
I need to take care of myself.
I need to stop sleeping too much, and stop watching so many movies.
I need to file my papers.
I need to clean my house.
I need to do laundry and actually put it away once it’s dry this time.
I need to rearrange my bedroom & decorate.
I need to decorate so that I love my house.
I need pictures and houseplants.
I have to fix up my place so that I love it instead of tolerate it.
I need a haircut.
I need to start making my bed.
I need to make my home so that I am comfortable in it, and am comfortable inviting others over to it.
I need to take out all the junk the previous occupant left.
I need to write to david.
I need to stop lying. I told my dad on the phone some little white lie about having finished a little chore around the house that I hadn’t started yet. What was that about? I obviously feel like I haven’t been productive enough and there’s only one way to change that.
v00m!

Here’s what I need to do:
1) Clean up my loose ends at work. (I’ll need an assistant or a month of Saturday work . . . )
2) Get excellent personal insurance. (BCBS, here comes a phone call & some paperwork!)
3) Get caught up with letters & calls. (Thank-yous, letters to Grandmas, mom, dad, kid sister & brother, my oh my. )
4) Save at least 10% of my income. (Now that the credit card’s paid off, this should come up on payday.)
5) Get rid of things around the house I do not need. (This is quite the process but next weekend should help exponentially. I purged the bathroom last weekend of things I haven’t used and won’t, I’ve been putting clothes into a bag if they don’t suit me, and I’m going through ALL the boxes in the basement narrowing down what’s really worth keeping. I am cleaning my world!)
6) Start up with the hydration! I was drinking enough water, but then I stopped . .
7) Get myself one of those productive inspiring work environments. Er. I’ll work on my attitude, but the busywork I’m buried under doesn’t bode well for my success.
8) Same with the tolerance of my work environment. You can take the scatterbrained genius chemist boss out of the office . . . but you can’t stop him crapping all over everything once he flies back in.
9) I do not live in the geographical location of my choice. I’m definitely working on it.
10) My clothes could use just a smidge of ironing and putting away. Tomorrow.
11) My home is not clean & tidy. I’ve got lots of paper to finish up with in the basement, and that laundry … tomorrow.
12) My car is a junker! Once I live overseas and don’t have one, I can check this off because it is n/a?
13) My personal files, while improving, could use some work. I slacked off for 7 or 8 years. I’m fixing it. Tomorrow.
14) Sugar, alcohol. Sometimes I behave, lately I do not. I need the things I need.
15) A will! I have to get a basic set of rules down for what happens if I disappear. So . . . do I just go to a lawyer? I must research!

A timeline: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11 can be done in a month. 13 & 14 also. 15 with some research.
1, 7, 8, 9 and 12 are goals for the six months range.
Yes.

Seriously lacking in the Physical Environment sector, could improve in the Money sector just by getting some insurance and legal paperwork completed. I mUst improve my physical environment! Gah!

Better!

72 today. I must improve.

And also perhaps I am procrastinating which I should cease. I am at an 85, which I feel good about.
I have got to got to got to get my home desk in order.

I have soooo much paper to organize & filing to do if I want to get past ninety . . . . I also need to call up some old friends and figure out why my plant is turning yellow.

I am at an 83 right now . . . I think it’s entirely possible that I will have 95 by Christmas. I’m so pleased! It feels good to kind of have my life coming together. Finally.

Progress. An oil change for my car, a desk-organizing, and a job change will do wonders for me. Folding my laundry will help, too …