May Starts Tomorrow

[crossover_chick]

And it's supposed to be the coldest day of the freaking week.

At least I got some amusing starters out of it for my Victors on tumblr.

Just finished up with catching up with as much as I could on everything. Which never includes as much "everything" as I'd like, or as much catching up.

I seriously wish I had the power to wind back time just one hour or something. With everything I did staying done. Hell, even if I just napped that hour I'd still come out ahead.

Speaking of napping, I need to get to bed. G'night all.

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[gigs_83]

OMG I don't know if you've seen it yet but if you go onto Channel Awesome's YouTube account they have a Shut Up and Talk with Doug interviewing the man, the myth, the legend...Tommy Wiseau. I watched it while I was on the elliptical and Doug's facial expressions are hilarious. Worth checking out, imo. :)

Hm...not a lot happening in the DV-world. Naturally since today should start the final Double Weekend I'm waiting until this afternoon to collect anything (except the 20 I got from friends as that doesn't change if you wait, sadly). Though I did have to sell some eggs to make room for more, but Kairos will help speed those along this afternoon so I can max there.

Speaking of maxing, a couple days the Habitats were kind to me and gave me all 40 in one go. No idea why, but, hey, not questioning it, lol. Even the treat farms gave me between 32 and 36 before crapping out. Edit: Of course today is the day it wants me to grind... *sigh*

I should be getting the final reward on Saturday. Then hopefully they'll give us a break with the damn events for a while (though somehow I doubt it...). :/

Nothing much else, I guess. Just pedestal making (89/216) and dust collecting.

DC: 2628,334,071; G: 631

We're going to see Avengers: Age of Ultron tonight. I'm gonna paint the Avengers logo on Shada tomorrow. :p

[whitedove01s]

Even if I catch up on something I always feel like I never got enough done or caught up at the expense of getting behind on something else. It doesn't help that I'm kind of scatterminded and tend to start on projects and have them branch off into tangent projects and then I find I've got about 50 things going at once...

I found a free website that I'm actually hoping will help. It's a free online version of a thing called a kanban board that basically lets me make 'to do' cards and sort them by a category or in my case by how critical they are, and move em around as needed. (example: This is done (which I leave up a while before deleting old cards so I get a feeling of accomplishment seeing that I actually DID do something), this is what I'm doing now, these are the very next things I want to do, the next three columns are other things I want to do that are sorted by priority)

Right now, the column for stuff I'm doing 'now' is limited to two items (not counting little daily repeaters like the reminder to brush my teeth or take my vitamins), and the Next column is limited to three... and the rest of the columns are color coded by how important it is to get to them. And if I get an idea in the middle of something, I add it to the board instead of dropping what I'm in the middle of and starting it right away.

It seems to be working, so far... I have the page tabbed in Firefox so I can keep referencing it. It also helps for those moments I have when I got distracted by a shiny and completely forgot what I was doing... just check the cards. XD

If you want to check it out, it's here:
http://trello.com/

[crossover_chick]

I haven't -- I really haven't had the time to go searching out videos like I used to. But I'll keep it in mind for a future workout session or something. :)

My habitats have been similarly generous -- not 40 all in one go, but pretty close some mornings! And even food's been generally maxing out all right. . . I collected a gift from a friend, one round of food, and some money from habitats I knew would refresh themselves by the end of the day before I left this morning. Figured everything else could wait. Of course, like you, I got the grinding curse. . . well, whatever. I'm going to have enough for Midnight #2, and that's what's important.

Congrats -- I don't suppose I could bug you for a picture of it in action when you do ? :P Since there's no way I'm getting it. And yes, I'd like that myself. Two in a row with no break is just insane. Bleh.

Same here -- working on the Lapis Pedestal and the missing Monolith, for lack of anything better to do. Also hatched my Seasonal -- I named it Turn because the song "For everything, turn turn turn/there is a season, turn turn turn" wouldn't stop playing in my head. :P

DC: 1,973,290,768; G: 396.

Have fun! :D

[crossover_chick]

I know this feel well -- there's just not enough hours in the day! And yeah, tangent projects tend to be a real pain with me. I create AUs like most people breathe, I swear. :P

The website looks interesting, though I dunno if I'd ever actually use it -- I suck with to-do lists in general, and when I do use them I tend to do better if they're actually written. I kind of like the feel of crossing stuff off. :P Still, I'll take another, more in-depth look later. You never know what might help. Thanks. :)

[whitedove01s]

Heh, in this case, crossing stuff off is done by moving it to the 'done' category. But I get what you mean, though it's backwards for me - I tend to misplace or lose written lists. You're welcome! :)

[gigs_83]

Yep, of course I will. :)

That's to a photo and having fun watching the movie, lol.

[crossover_chick]

So I see. It really does look like a useful and interesting site!

. . .If you have actual projects and suchlike, like you and your dollies. Time to confess that when I complain about not catching up on stuff, I'm generally talking about webcomics and other sites I like. ^^; I suppose I could put "writing" on there, but it seems a waste for only one "real" activity. . .and I'd probably completely forget about visiting the site. So -- yeah.

But it was a nice thought, and I think it's adorable that they have a spokeshusky. I hope you at least get some proper use out of it!

[crossover_chick]

LOL, good. :D

[whitedove01s]

One of my columns is nothing but all the TV shows I watch online, so I can drag the cards for them over to the stuff to do area when there's a new ep available... and then drag em back to 'done' after. XD And I have a card reminding me to take my vitamins every day that I just move back and forth so I know if I did. It doesn't have to be big projects. :)

But then half of my not-finding-time issues seem to have been scattermindedness, a lack of organizational skills, and tendency to go off on tangents. (I wonder if any of that can be caused by head trauma. I had a few nasty concussions in Middle School.)

But, anyhow, it seems to be being a big help for me, so I thought I'd share. Everyone's different tho (world would be very boring if not).

[crossover_chick]

Really? XD Okay then. . . My lack of time comes from the fact that I've got a work schedule with a hour-long commute on the bus -- and in order to make sure I get in on time in the mornings, I have to go in about a half-hour early. I used to be able to read my webcomics and such on my lunch break, but then they got a new filter, and now practically everything I like is blocked. Fortunately my e-mail is not one of these, so I can do Dreamwidth replies using a special draft in my e-mail -- but since I don't GET every reply through e-mail like I used to. . .not to mention I don't always have time to get on my other accounts and actually post them. Because my other time sink is tumblr RP, with multiple threads and a LOOOOT of stuff to read.

So yeah, those are my issues (plus some scatterbrainedness and tangentness at times, because only human), and I guess I don't know how much the cards would really help with that. (Maybe? I don't think they would have helped. :( )

Yeah, I do appreciate the thought, like I said, and I'll keep the website in mind at least. You never know, after all.