In fifteen minutes I can ...
Call and schedule a new student.
File a small stack of receipts.
Take a walk around the block.
Test three pieces of gold - and put the equipment away.
Take pictures of things to list on my internet yard sale.
Write one of those things up.
Research description for narrative editing on the Book.
Edit one chapter of the Book.
Catch up on attendance.
Read email.
Write out billing.
Email billing.
Order the newest Doctor Who on Amazon.
Clear a surface.
Unwrap the Vallerysthal (blue) hen from charity shop last week (for $6!) and put it on cleaner surface.
Take a shower.
Dry my hair (I have a lot of hair these days).
Gather the newspapers that have been tossed on the floor (unread) and put them into the recycle pile.
Put the recycling in the bins and take them to the curb.
Cut vegies for a stir-fry.
Watch a trailer for a movie I won't watch any time soon.
Sort coupons.
Enter four contests.
Take another walk around the block.
Write and publish a blog post.
In other words, I can live my life and get tons done. In 15-minute blocks.
Weird.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Phase Two
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "Phase Two" means in the long run, but I do know a few things:
1. I will write when I have something to say - or at least I will NOT write when I have nothing to say.
2. I've figured out how to be Lois-on-the-Spot (Blogger has a "publish from email" feature) which I've found out just in time for the outdoor stuff to end. Of course.
3. More lessons, more education links - gold hit $1398 an ounce yesterday, and there's plenty, plenty to still find.
4. One of the main purposes of this blog in the beginning was to see if I could write to deadline. I proved I could. Now I can release myself from my self-imposed deadlines ... primarily because I've started writing fiction again, to deadlines so tight I can barely fit my life between them.
So, since I do have something to say, I'll just say it. I've created a file in my pictures called "really good week."
It could have read "really good Thursday and Friday." Gold and onyx earrings, gold (maybe 18K - need to test) studs, 14K and sterling hoops, onyx and gold necklace, and 14K gold bracelet - all from consignment shops. Then this:
which almost looks the same, except for the silvery pearl screwback earrings (marked "750") that I forgot when I took the second set of pictures.
Total spent for all that ... about $30.
It was a good week.
Now back to my "real" job.
1. I will write when I have something to say - or at least I will NOT write when I have nothing to say.
2. I've figured out how to be Lois-on-the-Spot (Blogger has a "publish from email" feature) which I've found out just in time for the outdoor stuff to end. Of course.
3. More lessons, more education links - gold hit $1398 an ounce yesterday, and there's plenty, plenty to still find.
4. One of the main purposes of this blog in the beginning was to see if I could write to deadline. I proved I could. Now I can release myself from my self-imposed deadlines ... primarily because I've started writing fiction again, to deadlines so tight I can barely fit my life between them.
So, since I do have something to say, I'll just say it. I've created a file in my pictures called "really good week."
Total spent for all that ... about $30.
It was a good week.
Now back to my "real" job.