mblog

Here? I guess so.

malisa — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:54:21 +0000

It seems that March is the time for wanting to create. I think about the possibility of creating a new blog. Or fixing up wfr. Publicly? Privately? Maybe I should move that stuff here?

It’s amazing how I can look at the list for last spring break and still need to get most of that stuff done.

I figure, for now, I’m better off just working with this one. I need to think. But I do feel the need to write. So I’ll write here.

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I think about what my priorities are…maybe I need to list my priorities. How are priorities and goals different? And how are those different from Areas of Responsibility or Areas of Focus?

What I’m getting at is that I need to (in no particular order…yet…):

spend more time with my dogs
be more active
eat better
worry about the long term implications of my decisions better
coordinate with Matt re: long term goals
walk the walk…money-wise
if having people over is still really a priority, get off my ass and clean
make my office more inviting
do something more often in the front yard
do something more often in the back yard
think about what drew me to the kanban last spring and do something that works

Cereal, Salad, and Soup

malisa — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:06:32 +0000

I’m thinking, as I have before, that if I eat enough good stuff I won’t have room for bad stuff. I’m thinking if I eat some form of cereal, salad, and soup each day I’ll have a pretty good base.

I wasn’t supposed to be doing this again

malisa — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:51:39 +0000

I wasn’t going to touch the blog today. I was going to get stuff done. But I can’t help myself.

I am trying to tweak the colors. I found this awesome site. I actually first entered this because I was trying to ID colors on THIS mblog because I like the way the hover colors work. Apparently this site will find pictures that match the color you enter. I think.
Here I can learn to make link boxes (like for pages at the top.)

Spring Break goals

malisa — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:58:35 +0000

I got almost nothing done yesterday. I need to come up with what I would like to get done over spring break.

Fix screen door
Desk-area ‘done’
Receipts all scanned
Hall carpet cleaned
2009 Taxes
2010 Taxes
Patio/Breezeway presentable

I think these are all the big project-y goals that can get ‘done’. But there are also things that I want to work on little and often.

Gardening tasks
Blazer/Garage
Spanish
Dogs
Walking/exercising
Zone cleaning
Take pictures

I’m sure these lists will get refined. These are off the top of my head. I haven’t used my SF book yet this weekend.

Notice, no where on these lists are: Make a new SF book, build website, monetize website, learn to make email accounts, learn Filemaker, learn Numbers or any of the other many things that I can think to do and have spent some time doing.

First day of Spring Break

malisa — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:22:06 +0000

Slept 9 hours. Feel like I got up way-late (8am). Doing the usual internet cruise before I get down to doing stuff.

Yesterday I came up with categories for wfr. Today I started thinking about tags.

I went to Parkview and got some color, basil and thai peppers.

We took Ed in for a second round of shots, she hadn’t been eating yesterday or today.

On the way, I heard Leo talking to someone and caught him mention this link. Good for web ranking, etc.

I could/should post links to those youtube videos on teaching stuff (conferences and obs.)

In looking for good ways to title posts, I came across this on how to monetize.

And on menus.

Idea – maybe include Spanish?

Did a little housekeeping here yesterday

malisa — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:10:22 +0000

I did the first set up on the new blog. (I’d forgotten that I needed to set it up as an add-on domain. I also searched around for themes. I found one that seemed suitable for here in my search, so I switched to it here.

I made the posts here public so that my categories would show. I also took off the ability to comment, which is really the main reason I want it private.

This led me to think about the differences between categories and tags. I googled and found this.

And another (blue lime media) with some good links of it’s own.

I found placekitten via blue lime.

Fighting the urge

malisa — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:09:47 +0000

…to start a new SF book. I’m near the end of mine due to the way I organized it. I will change that next time.

This time, I flipped to the middle of the book and there I started my other lists. Next time, I’ll make those starting in the back. And also, I’ll write on both sides of the page (taking into account those things that might-could go to two pages.

I’ve been tweaking the bookmark I made. I don’t know if I posted about it. I made a bookmark with zone stuff (flylady) on one side and weekly stuff (more or less) on the other. I haven’t used the zone side yet (another – waiting-for-spring-break) thing. The weekly (includes daily) side I’ve used. But not consistently. Another excuse to make forms, I know. But I think it’s helpful.

The urge to start a new book is coming because I have several old open pages and I don’t want to dismiss the items, but I don’t want to/can’t do them now.

Also, I’ve started putting three things on each C1 page: Weekly task, Zone task, Outdoor/Yard task. However, I’ve still been stuck back in the pages where these aren’t. And I’m also wondering if they should be in C2 rather than C1. THIS is the best argument for not starting a new book. I should wait and see if these things are useful (most useful) where they are in C1 or if they should move to C2 (or some mix).

Bento and/or Filemaker Pro

malisa — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:02:47 +0000

I downloaded trials of both Bento and Filemaker Pro today. I said elsewhere that I’m feeling like building (learning) something. I came across some post that mentioned Bento so I downloaded the trial. As I waited, I read some forum posts from people who are frustrated by lack of features (still). So I checked out Filemaker. There’s a free trial of that too.

But I’m not entirely sure what I want to do with them.

Replace OF for my non-active tasks/SDMB?

Replace OF for my project management?

Home Inventory?

School planning (do what I think Planbook should)?

Something with ical events or to-do’s?

Another domain?

malisa — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:58:58 +0000

I posted at the JJ yesterday that I feel like creating something. I think that was after I broke this place by changing the theme to something that had an error in it. But I fixed it.

I ended up getting a new domain this morning:

waiting for rain

It’s descriptive of what I’ve done this weekend. It’s supposed to have rained yesterday. And it’s supposed to rain today. So far, about 1 min of rain today. Kathy said they’ve had enough rain there that the ground was wet, but not here.

WFR because I love rain

WFR because I’m more productive indoors when it rains

WFR because my garden/yard are happier when it rains

WFR because of the budgetary connotations (ie: rainy day funds)

WFR because in So Cal, it’s so important, yet so elusive

I’m sure I’ll think of others.

WFR…that’s why I haven’t worked on the Blazer

There’s one.

I bought the domain but I won’t do anything until spring break next week.

SF Still Going Strong

malisa — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:08:47 +0000

I’m still in love with SF. I work my lists diligently (enough) on the weekends and feel okay putting it down during the week. I wish I did more, but I’m okay that I don’t.

I also use my SF work list now. I may modify it a bit as I don’t think that I want to have to look at multiple pages. I may copy over incomplete things when I reach the bottom of the page. Two weeks or so of use and I’m not there yet, but I’m close. I brought the book home and I may just re-write the page this weekend just for the sake of cleanliness.

I’ve had OF Review on my SF list since the start. Today was the first I messed with OF a little. I crossed off some things and made some things stop repeating. I’m ‘up for’ cleaning up OF this weekend. I want to look back on what I’ve got here about reviews. I guess, really, one task is clean up OF and another is a regular Weekly Review (a la GTD).

I’m still struggling with repeating items in SF. Separate lists? Calendar? Not sure. But things are mostly getting done. Example though: cleaning the fountain filter is past due. It was done once but I’m not sure if it’s in my list somewhere to redo it. Should I re-enter immediately? Then you have to add to it the fact that I’m not ‘working the list’ during the week that much. Hmmm.