- for the stunningly beautiful sunshine that has streamed into my bedroom all afternoon. Now that has to be bad for the cold germs.
- for my lovely son who walked to the shop to buy me some spinach leaves - and books of raffle tickets to use tomorrow.
- for discovering my new purple Intimo LBD is exactly the same shade as my Motto mesh top :)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Today I am thankful - books, toast and growth
- for a reading day in bed. Books are how I have always gotten through sick days but these days it is often easier to browse online instead, So reminding myself to pick up books and switch off the laptop is good.
- for my healthy multi-grain sourdough toast with almond spread and apricot jam - comfort food :)
- for the abundance of green growth outside my bedroom window - all that rain has helped several plants in their recovery from the drought. I realised there is more shade than I am used to!
- for my healthy multi-grain sourdough toast with almond spread and apricot jam - comfort food :)
- for the abundance of green growth outside my bedroom window - all that rain has helped several plants in their recovery from the drought. I realised there is more shade than I am used to!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Today I am thankful - friends, banners and battle!
- for my kids having such great friends that they visit our home and just accept me lying in bed in the middle of the day, without questioning or judging or making a big deal about my health issues. Once we get past that first, awkward "this is my Mum" moment :) Our bedroom is just near the front door and my bed is just near the bedroom door, so heads just pop around the corner and say hello!
- for getting our lovely new banners printed and collected from Officeworks in time to show them off at our seminar on Monday. From vague design to finished product in a week, thanks to several volunteers going the extra mile.
- for completing my annual "battle with Word about a straight-forward mail merge" to produce conference badges for Monday. One of us is not compatible with the other - and I am perfect ;)
- for getting our lovely new banners printed and collected from Officeworks in time to show them off at our seminar on Monday. From vague design to finished product in a week, thanks to several volunteers going the extra mile.
- for completing my annual "battle with Word about a straight-forward mail merge" to produce conference badges for Monday. One of us is not compatible with the other - and I am perfect ;)
52 Weeks of decluttering - week eight
Checking in very late on this one as I was interstate last weekend and hit the ground running on my return. So before week nine's prompts hit the web today, thought I should quickly check in on the decluttering challenge for week eight!.
I tackled a couple of small projects in the week ending February 24, mostly because I spent the weekend resting a cold. But even the smallest tasks can make the biggest difference!
First was to reclaim what was supposed to be our command centre but had become "the place you shove bits and pieces that might have a home, but you can't be bothered looking for it!" (Can I just remind you I share this house with three other adults, plus two more adults who used to live here!)
This sight was giving me heart palpitations on a daily basis! So I emptied it of everything and took the contents to my sick-bed and sorted it all. In fact, the mountain was really a mole-hill and (as always) the 20% that belonged there was just swamped by the 80% that need chucking out!
We do so little written correspondence these days, but this is nominally where we keep paper, envelopes and stamps: the stamps we have there are TWO price increases behind, so I shall take them and some 10c ones to use at work and just buy a couple of current postage for home.
Now I can keep my household notebook there, even though that is heading the way of the dinosaurs as more and more household accounts are paperless. One day, there will be no paper! (It does help that the last child finished school over a year ago - schools are the main source of excess paper!)
Another little task I managed from bed was tidying my bedside drawer, where I keep my medications and vitamins taken each day, plus odds and ends of nail care items etc. Shoeboxes work well to corral different items and stop the sprawl, but I prettied them up with some scrapbooking paper, seeing I look into this space every single day, it might as well treat my senses!
I tackled a couple of small projects in the week ending February 24, mostly because I spent the weekend resting a cold. But even the smallest tasks can make the biggest difference!
First was to reclaim what was supposed to be our command centre but had become "the place you shove bits and pieces that might have a home, but you can't be bothered looking for it!" (Can I just remind you I share this house with three other adults, plus two more adults who used to live here!)
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| Before |
We do so little written correspondence these days, but this is nominally where we keep paper, envelopes and stamps: the stamps we have there are TWO price increases behind, so I shall take them and some 10c ones to use at work and just buy a couple of current postage for home.
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| After |
Now I can keep my household notebook there, even though that is heading the way of the dinosaurs as more and more household accounts are paperless. One day, there will be no paper! (It does help that the last child finished school over a year ago - schools are the main source of excess paper!)
Another little task I managed from bed was tidying my bedside drawer, where I keep my medications and vitamins taken each day, plus odds and ends of nail care items etc. Shoeboxes work well to corral different items and stop the sprawl, but I prettied them up with some scrapbooking paper, seeing I look into this space every single day, it might as well treat my senses!
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Today I am thankful - cleaning, pet-love and PURPLE LBD!!!!
- for the surprising pleasure of being left in peace and quiet at the office so I could do a really deep clean and vacuum around and under my desk!
- for arriving home and being deluged in a love-fest of feline and canine greetings! Both so sooky they were even being nice to each other (until they realised what they were doing!)
- for the arrival of my BEAUTIFUL new wardrobe treasure - the INTIMO LBD in PURPLE!
Relax, I won't wear it quite like this, but as a skirt and over pants or leggings, with the promised PURPLE wrap (coming soon, I am told - not sure if it is the long or the short but happy with either)
I wish they would do the pants in this colour too and maybe a cami or other top - at least they are starting to realise a large part of the female population wear PURPLE as a key colour!!!! (I have both the LBD and pants in black, they are my only black garments, also the pants in chocolate and a long-wrap in oatmeal. Both the girls have various components as well)
- for arriving home and being deluged in a love-fest of feline and canine greetings! Both so sooky they were even being nice to each other (until they realised what they were doing!)
- for the arrival of my BEAUTIFUL new wardrobe treasure - the INTIMO LBD in PURPLE!
I wish they would do the pants in this colour too and maybe a cami or other top - at least they are starting to realise a large part of the female population wear PURPLE as a key colour!!!! (I have both the LBD and pants in black, they are my only black garments, also the pants in chocolate and a long-wrap in oatmeal. Both the girls have various components as well)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Today I am thankful - conversations, mornings and Kintara!
- for asocial drop-in day today, where the babies were all around 18 months and mums really motivated and wanting to learn. Some great conversation happens at the Breastfeeding Centre - it isn't all sore nipples, you know!
- for this treasure, which arrived in my blog reader from the wonderful Goddess Leonie:
- for having Kintara here in the office on Wednesdays, to share the load. With our seminar for health professionals on Monday, I needed to box stuff up for the courier to collect in the morning and it was great leaving the phone to her and focus. Job sharing on the same day means we get twice as much achieved in the same number of hours!
- for this treasure, which arrived in my blog reader from the wonderful Goddess Leonie:
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| http://www.goddessguidebook.com/morning/ |
I swear Leonie and I are tuned into the same life channel, as we keep doing the same things at the same time! Just last week, I wrote out my own morning routine (and the evening one) as reminders of how I prefer to start and end my day. Whilst these leisurely beginnings will have mothers of small children and those juggling paid work outside the home in stitches of laughter, even they could take tiny bits to incorporate into their own day. You can download this inspiration for free!
- for having Kintara here in the office on Wednesdays, to share the load. With our seminar for health professionals on Monday, I needed to box stuff up for the courier to collect in the morning and it was great leaving the phone to her and focus. Job sharing on the same day means we get twice as much achieved in the same number of hours!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Today I am thankful - home, food and bed!
- for getting home from work.Very tired, forgot to bring lunch-time cold tablets with me - felt like I was dragging myself through wet cement all day. Luckily, a quiet taking calls to book BECs, which was about as much as I could manage!
- for making myself do some food prep before crashing, because not having good lunches won't make the next few days any easier on my body.
- for the anticipation of an early night, under the doona and jammies, here I come!!
- for making myself do some food prep before crashing, because not having good lunches won't make the next few days any easier on my body.
- for the anticipation of an early night, under the doona and jammies, here I come!!
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