So, I did some more things.

April 1 Looks like I went to Taco Bell for lunch on the 1st. Well, actually, my coworker went, and we ate in the breakroom, but whatever.

April 2 On the second, I went to the hospital right after work to see Granny, and realized I hadn’t eaten all day. A tasteless chicken sandwich and tasteless strawberry shortcake was dinner. I usually like the shortcake from here, but…….yeah, no. Sigh. Not this night.

April 3 I went to ACMoore on my lunch to look for yarn for That One’s mom and sister. They want hats. HA! I didn’t find what they wanted, but I scored several balls of each of these for myself at just $1.99 each. Yay me! And I still get to go to another yarn store looking for their stuff. Yay me again.

April 4 No picture. Early morning “you need to come to the hospital” call instead. So I did.

April 5 Picture I took in the bathroom of work to replace the one I had taken outside that That One declared “too frowny”. You can tell by the white shirt that I was in the pharmacy instead of using my box cutter to open garden shop freight.

So, one of the things I am trying to do is go through my cubbies. I have a lot of stuff in them, and I need to sort it. Mostly I need to blog about the books and such and then decide whether to keep them or pass them on. This is the stack I moved to my bedside bench on the 23rd. It remains pretty much untouched because I was in the middle of a book and wanted to finish it before I started reading anything else, because it is in high demand. How is it that no book is interesting until I pick it up and then it becomes a must read for everyone else, hmmmm?

I had intended to do one cubby each week, but there are several novels in this stack, so …umm, it will be a while before I get to another one.

Tuesday found me working in the garden shop again. I absolutely love working in the garden shop. It’s pretty autonomous back there, with not much politics and an opportunity to just get the job done. I put out freight and I water plants and when there are no customers I sing. It’s the one place in the store (aside from the pharmacy, which we control right there in it) where they keep the air conditioning on in the summer, so that’s a real nice perk, too.

I really enjoy learning about the different plants. There’s a great big Ortho book back there, over 1200 pages with information on different flowers, shrubs and trees as well as the pest and diseases that weaken or kill them. When I am not actually working, I get to study.

Now that is a totally mundane title, but it does tell you exactly what this post is about. Yesterday, I planted the last flowers I intend to plant for the year. I moved Lantana from it’s middle of the yard outgrowth to a spot in the flowerbed, and I planted the two live Sweet William plants on the other side of the same bed. The mixed flowers I planted in the other bed are coming up now, and hopefully I’ll see a few blooms once it gets cool enough to enjoy the evenings sitting in outdoor furniture. Right now, it’s too blasted hot to do very much of that. Unless your air conditioner is broken like mine has been. Then outside is definitely better than in! Much better.

I have been collecting post ideas for my various blogs for a while, and tey were all stacked in an unruly pile on my desk, where I could never find the specific page I needed when I was ready to blog. As a result, I have missed blogging about some things I thought were pretty important, because the event passed and I forgot about it until it was too late.

I’ve done a couple of things to help with that problem. One, I have started using Google calendar and I also bought this nifty thing:

It holds my idea articles, dividing by blog topic, and I can find just what I need when I need it. And it looks perky sitting on my desk. I like perky.

And there we have it: one more way I’m trying to keep my sanity.

I finally caught up on my feed reading this morning, and Have a few things to share with you. There would have been more, but my system crashed and I lost a lot of the pieces I wanted to go back and read and share.

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That’s it. I spent the rest of the evening taming this:

and getting my work schedule into Google Calendar. Doesn’t a clean desk just feel so good?

And I am hopeful that it will allow me to get more done. Football season has started, and that means my Saturdays are now full, fuller, fullest, at least through October. I told you a few days ago about my new notebook method of organizing myself, and you saw I still have a massive to-do list with many, many hours-long projects on it. (By the way, that is working extremely well for me, hold that thought, I’ll get back to it in a minute.)

Anyway, since I am working until about 10pm most nights to cram everything in, I prefer to NOT work all weekend, too, and since Saturday is busy, I am now taking Wednesdays-for-Work. Clearing the desk, clearing the email inbox, and clearing that to-do list, too. No school, no housework. It seems to be working–it’s only noon, and my regular work is done, except for one post, and I am doing some chewing on that in the back of my mind. I guess that means it’s time to work on the desk and email, right?

Now back to that thought above. I did indeed streamline my notebook, and this is how I did it. I made 10 columns across a 2 page spread, and that holds 2 weeks worth of Monday-Friday checklists and blogging schedules. Then, I can use as many pages after that as I need to hold to-do lists and notes and such. I can follow that up with another column spread (possibly using 4 pages to hold a month’s worth) so that I can work on the same notes and to-do list, because my to-do list stays oo long to accomplish it all in a week. Unless this new Wednesdays-for-Work thing goes way better than I could hope or imagine.

Is this blog stalling out for anyone else? I’ve come here a couple of times in the past couple of days and the thing just stalled out on the load. No content, no sidebar, just the background. Do I need to enable the cache, do you think?

In other news………nothing. Still working on my project, and I am pushing to be through today. I’ve been pre-occupied with it long enough.