GO DOWNSTAIRS!!

This’ll be brief.

I am really enjoying my new job.  The hours aren’t necessarily different but the longer days are just more frequent.  I'm still working on the diss. but just not as much as needed.  But I understand that there is a learning curve to shifting an entire schedule.  And it isn’t that I don’t stay up late anyways...but arriving back at home so late does upset the routine.  I can easily get ready for bed as soon as I walk in the door at 9 or 10 or 11pm.  

There is one guaranteed solution to the problem of my “ignoring” my work upon return: GO DOWNSTAIRS.

Here's why: I can’t get distracted.  My other options are: toy room; exercise room; laundry room…  Aside from riding a horsy, running on a treadmill, or doing laundry, my only other option is to sit and read.  I call it “my dungeon” to Tim and it isn’t that I hate the place or anything because I lived there for June and July…  But it is rather bare and I have no choice.  So, barring any distraction from FB (which I’ve become pretty good at barring) I focus and finish.

So: GD – Go Downstairs.  If I can follow this rule and at the end of each day I work on my dissertation plan out the next day of tasks, I should be good to keep on pace.

Dessert List

21. Pay attention to what GoodReads actually is because I think I would actually like it.

20. Enjoy Fantasy Football to its fullest extent

19. Learn what Candy Crush Saga is and still refuse to play it

18. Convert porch area into an inside-eating area

17. Organize my books

16. Get Federally-barred

15.  Okay - don't think I'm crazy - but write to publish. I had a very good idea for a law article today.  This will be one I don't pursue right away but I do think I would like it.

14. Email both Z and Mari at least once every other day with my thoughts on them,

us, life, God.

13. Track all of the funny stories I've posted of Samara on Facebook and either email them to her and/or put them in a book for her. (Note: this doesn't include Z because she doesn't talk yet and I hope I finish my diss. before she starts to talk...)

12. In relation to #11, gather all of my user names and passwords and put them in a list somewhere... figuring out where that place will be should be another to-do list item but we'll save it for later.

11. Figure out whether Instagram is worth my time or just another account with a password.

10. Apply as a USDOE Federal Reviewer (not a full time job, or anything.  A side-gig)

9. PINTEREST, Baby!  That's right, I've never looked KNOWING it is a time-sucker!

8. Clean out the garage

7. Complete the scrapbooking projects I have for the girls

6. Fix up the area I envision as a mudroom (which will cut down on dirt in the house)

5. GO TO THE GYM as often as I want (without feeling guilty)

4. Read a newspaper with coffee in the morning (without feeling guilty)

3. Write our wills, guardianship documents, etc.

2. Read a novel (without feeling guilty)

1. Learn Spanish with Mari and Z