Organizing @ MindSay 
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Well after putting up the hidabed (we are in the process of deep cleaning the upstairs after the cat fiasco in my room-gave me the excuse to wash walls, go through things for a rummage sale, and organize-no sleeping up there till i am done) this morning, cleaning out my thigh again, eating breakfast, starting laundry, and doing a quick clean up in the living room..........I was sweating like fat woman that walked from the kitchen to the living room!
Randy has been bugging me for a month to turn on the AC. I am a heating and cooling nazi. I grew up with my father during the winter the heat was set at 68 and no more and during the summer we had no ac and when we did have it.......it was set at 72 for the first day to get the humidity out of the house and then set to 75 for the hottest part of the day and then up to about 77 the rest of the time if not turned off if the humidity levels were real low!
Yesterday when I blogged it was middle high humidty and a nice temp of in the 80s, again it is the same way by the end of the day though we were in the low to middle 90s with higher humidity and dew levels! Today is going to be worse. I closed up all the downstairs windows, pulled what blinds we have, covered the other windows with no blinds with blankets and towels, closed the door between the downstairs and upstairs (no duct work upstairs so windows stay open there) and turned the AC on to 72. Since the humidity isn't that bad yet in the house by this afternoon when we leave for taekowndo I can put it between 75-78 and leave it.
I love the heat but the humdity always ends up getting me! If I could walk around nakee and sweety I would but with kids I have to have clothes on.........so I am now turning the AC on! I am weak! Dayum the Summer! I don't care that technicaly it is the middle of Summer and the modern calander says Summer is just beginning I usually wait till the middle of July before I turn it on! I am so weak!
A few more loads of laundry and then I might take the kids down to my dads for a day of swimming before we go to taekowndo. Or a few more loads of laundry and then we move to my boy's room and get his room started! Either way I will be sweating like a fat woman walking because upstairs is going to be humid as hell till either we get our things from storage so I can get my window units or we go down to Berdina's house and get her old window unit since she just put Central air in her house!
I am Weak and you know what...........I don't care!
The past week has been just plain crazy! I sat here and counted and in the past week I have managed to nail down all of 18 hours of sleep. How is it that I have insomnia, I know I have insomnia, and yet, here i sit wondering why I am tired....but see my mind is only asking that stupid question because i am slee deprived. It's a viscious cycle.
My primary focus right now is on writing and getting published. I have so many projects i want to finish (not to mention start) and i am trying to get organized. So far I have managed to make a to-do list....i haven't done anything on the list because i am too busy writing the list. I basically need to figure out how to get my organizing process organized so i can get something done. But by trying to get it organized, i am so wrapped it in organizing my organizing that i am getting unorganized. It's a viscious cycle really.
All i am working on now is getting published. I am putting together a poetry collection and I have written a study skills course for all students from about the 6th or 7th grage thru college and I have had a 100 percent success rate in tutoring students with it. So I figure since it is tested and very marketable, given the state of the American public school system, I want to officially publish it and sell it. I have a resume writing course as well.
Oh, I just published my 4th issue of MadCatNip, and i am heady with relief and accomplishment....but that only lasts about a day befoe I have dive back in and get to writing for the next issue. I am having a ton of fun creating it. If you are a creative type, you will not be happy if you aren't creating, so don't waste your time trying to be without praticing your craft, no matter what others might think of it.
Well, i am rambling....i do that when i am tired.....i think it is time for me to pass out. Hope you are all doig ok. Oh, and if you want to check out this week's issue, go to www.madcatplanet.com.
Am I doing too much? A sigh to tell me to stop? Upon overview of the Mindsay wiki page index, I've spent hours trying to come up with a way to better categorize the index. I came up with 18 categories, as listed below:
| Actors & Filmmakers Anime & Graphic Novels Art & Artists Books & Writers Games Lifestyle | Mindsay & Internet Movies Music & Musicians Musicals Nature & Science Places |
Politics Religion & Spirituality Sci-Fi & Paranormal Schools Sports Television
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However, the listing of each page was exhausting to try to line up in a neat fashion. Anyone who happens upon the Index pagewill see that I saved my work, as best I could, in replies to the index page. So right now I'm trying to get everything organized into the categories above in a Categorial Index of Mindsay Wiki Pages page. It might be a pain in the butt, but it would be nice to see these categories included as interests on profiles and/or when you go to create a page, there could be a box prompting you to select a category to put a wiki page in when you want to create a new one. In any case, I'm done with it for now. For some reason every time I try to put in a three column table, it comes out looking really rather nasty on the page. For the time being, I'll just leave things as is.
My newest Mindsay wiki page is one involving blog themes and Mindsay blog "things" that you can download and use as images for customizing your blog. So far I have quite a few John Mayer ones to keep ol' msdania happy and will be making a few Star Trek themed ones as well... Ciao for now!
Enjoying a bit of free time, a quiet moment to myself. Not sure how long it will last, but I am taking advantage of what I can get!
Things have been a bit chaotic around here. We have been doing some much needed organizing in the house (such a small house, and so much stuff). I pray no one comes by today, as hard as we have been working to get this stuff done, currently we are in the stage where it looks worse then when we started, lol! My Nannie (grandmother) came by for a visit, and was sweet enough to watch Abby and entertain Peanut while I got a few things done. But, I still have a long way to go. It will be worth, though...we have been putting it off for so long because it is just overwhelming. Not to mention the fact, we still have no idea where we are going to actually put everything...in an organized manner.
Last night I had a neat experience. Abby is teething, and had been giving me a fit all day. Steve took her and tended to her while I took a breather, alone outside. Just needed a moment, alone, you know? I was sitting out on the deck, and looked up to the sky. There were really beautiful white, fluffy clouds passing by. It was not yet so dark that I couldn't see them. I sat there and just stared. As I did this, in the clouds I saw a cherub angel, a mama holding her baby, and then a large guardian angel type figure holding its arms out toward me. The guardian angel image gave me the shivers, and then a sense of peace and calm came over me. It was really an awesome experience, and hard for me to describe with words. I haven't watched the clouds since I was a little girl. I read somewhere that watching the clouds and seeing various images is a way to get in touch with your own intuition. Not sure how true this is, or even if the images I saw "meant" anything, but it was a special experience just the same!
I have an interview scheduled for the Nursery Worker Position for the church, next Wednesday. I am excited. I pray that I get the job...need money and need to get out of the house some! Feeling a bit isolated.
I am almost finished with the MindSay article I have been working on. I did use some of your comments, and I appreciate your input. Once published I will post a link.
That's about it for now. Nothing too exciting, but hey....this is life as I know it, for now anyway!
In Friendship,
~Jenn
Because, while I was on lortab, I could have promised them my first born for all I knew or remember. The reality of avoiding phone calls, because we just didnt have the money to pay all the medical bills incoming, let alone the other basic ordinary ones and I hate lying or the pressure that the collection reps put on, so thank goodness for voice mail and the delete button.
However, in everyone's life it there comes a time to get it together. I have been praying and I really feel like I am thinking so much clearer as I am not taking the enormous amounts of painkillers etc, and I really do NOT want to live in this stupid little apartment the rest of my life, and before my credit is below the gutter, we had better try to get a game plan going.
Very time consuming. Very humbling. And most really do not want to hear my story. I have perfected the shortened version and it literally ends with me saying "Thank you for hearing me out, I would like to bring this account (current, paid in full, etc), Is there anything you can do for me to eliminate any of the excess fees that accrued during this situation?"
It worked on all of them, but one. My ortho surgeon's bill collector. I owe them 245.00. Not a bad balance at all, considering the man performed surgery on my back for 4 hours rather than 45 minutes! However, it was my understanding that any balance on my part would go to my lawyer and they would await my settlement. No they said. Ok, I apologized, my error, Can I pay 50.00 today and set up a payt schedule to get it taken care of? She replies to me...you said that back in MARCH.
I am sorry.. I replied...but I am not accountable for any agreements or discussions that I held from February until just last month. I dont even have clear memories. ( note-if it werent for this journal, I probably would really be missing mega time!)
She went on and on about broken promises, going to collections. I asked her, Are you going to take the payment or do I hang up and just send something by mail? Honestly, she went on AGAIN about what I said in March. Finally she took the payment after asking me for double. Good on her. She is doing her job... and I felt proud of myself that I didnt lose my cool and that I pushed thru and didnt just hang up and say the heck with it, you know?
So, I have a 1 year get out of debt plan. In 12 months, we can have all of our credit cards and other bills caught up, paid in full and have some money in savings. I forgot about some items and the 'gravy' money is whittling down. But hey, first of all, I have NEVER done a budget..... so doing it at all is amazing. And I felt very led to get all this in order from my prayer time. It is just right to do right and not to run from the responsibilities. They don't go away. They are right there on your credit report...but worse yet, they are there in my heart... This way, things will be right. 1 year isn't too bad to be diligent is it? LOL...We do like to go out to eat often...mostly due to our crazy schedules, and the fact that I just didn't have anything here for us to make in a jiffy that was easy and no hassles. We got so lazy that even going to Waffle house sounded better than anything we had here!
What else did I do? Ahhh..wrote our tithe check, Scheduled Maytag to come check out our new washer, it's not draining the water properly. Then when all was said and done, I just said, thanks God for guiding me thru all of that! I called and checked the messages and I had 4 messages. By the time I called them back, I had 3 new clients scheduled on the books, with one scheduled a package due to a injury. I also sold one of my extra portable massage tables! I felt like I had earned my gold stars for the day :)
So, I went to wally world and got a new deep fryer, some tyson wings/drumsticks and a pizza for our dinner. Yum. The byetta medication that I take really does limit my appetite, however I am not seeing any weight loss. But on the flip side.. I am not gaining any either..haha... I was on my way to church and my left foot began to hurt me in a completely different way than it has before. I mean like jolts of pain that stabbed the bottom of my foot right under my toes. I literally was almost to church and I decided to turn around and go home. I was able to eat dinner with hubz and it hasnt done it again since. Hum.
Summary of day:
- Organized bills
- Called creditors and made arrangements
- Organized a 1 year budget
- Made client contacts and scheduled
- Scheduled Repair for washer
- Scheduled Dr appointment for sept 1 with surgeon-my PT is concerned about my leg.
- Did 4 loads of laundry=wash, dry, fold
- Went to good will-got 4 new sets of twin sheets for only 6 bucks each!
- Went grocery shopping and bought a new deep fryer :)
- Made dinner
- Cleaned up, loaded dishwasher
- Watched America's Next top model and project runway
- Checking email and journaling.
Satisified. A day of accomplishments. Really the budget and bill thing.. major. ::: beams:::: I also feel that God gave me a reward at the end of the day with the new clients, as if to say "Well done Dawn!"
Dawn Marie
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