Chicken Teriyaki Bowl #7

…I hate the fact that his video doesn’t allow me to randomly jump ahead.

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I’ve got one of those full days ahead of me - full of everything but what I feel I should be doing!

Because of a misunderstanding I didn’t get the correct materials for the audit for Soroptimist, so I have to work on that this afternoon and then meet with the committee tonight.  I have a Soroptimist work meeting at noon, and if I don’t work out this morning I won’t work out at all today.  Before I work out, however, I need to finish addressing 50 invitations for out big Masquerade Ball.

All of this on top of the fact I have two large projects I need to be working on!

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With all the ways I communicate - IM, Phone, Texting, Website, Blogs, Flickr, Facebook, etc, etc, etc - I feel fragmented and unrelated.

I’ve talked before about consolidating all of my phones into one cell phone.  I’ve also consolidated all of my email into one account at gmail.  Now I’m consolidated all of my other presences into one Tumblr account.  Tumblr describes itself as a scrapbook for the web.  You can read and view my different blogs, my twitters, my flickr images and pretty much anything else I want to make an RSS feed for.

On top of that, I can use it to collect quotes and links I find interesting.  A real scrapbook. I’m loving it.

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After a very slow summer I’ve finally landed three jobs - about $8K total, which is pretty good for me. 

Part of the slowness was just because it was summer, but I think the economy might be a part of it as well.  However, I’ve also changed my client base - dropping a handful of clients, increasing rates for others and cultivating web designers instead.  I feel like I’m finally connecting and business is starting to result.

Ideally, I could use 5-8 web designers in my “stable”.  They would provide enough work to make me very happy.

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I love productivity blogs — they’re probably my greatest waste of time.

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Once a week, for one brief moment, my house is clean.  The counters are bare, the towels are fresh and hung neatly.  The dressers don’t have a mountain of clothes piled on them.  The floors are missing their layers of dog hair and fuzz.

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I’ve moved email to Gmail from Outlook. Didn’t understand why people rave about it - now I know. I love it - especially the threaded conversations. Fabulous.

ToDo lists will be handled two ways - in a mini moleskin which I keep in my purse, and on Remember the Milk (RTM). I can actually add todos to RTM from my phone, but I wanted the security of always having something to write on.

Next step: Brain dump of everything I know I need to get done.

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I just turned off Trillian, which handles all of my IM except for Google Chat. I’ll turn it on only when I need it.

I transferred all of my phone lines to Grand Central, which then forwards to my cell phone and IMs me when I have a voice mail.

I turned off the little notifier in my taskbar for new email and set Outloo to check only once an hour (gasp)! Update: Nope, couldn’t handle it - changed it to once every 30 minutes. This is because I hate the phone - phone are worse time wasters than email for me.

I got rid of the majority of my desktop links.

I’m consolidated all of my miscellaneous “important” stuff in OneNote.

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I find myself between projects today so I’m spending the afternoon streamlining my computer.

I watched Merlin Mann’s excellent Google presentation on Inbox Zero and it inspired me to get rid of the Outlook folders I had to individual clients.

Next I went through my MyDocuments folder and got rid of a bunch of absolute crap - logos for businesses I don’t own anymore, miscellaneous empty text files. Strange spreadsheets. All in the trash.

Now I’m cleaning out my applications. I NEVER use Rhapsody, so I’m not sure why it is on my computer. Same with RealPlayer <gag>.

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My husband admitted to me this morning that he has been listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and “they make sense sometimes”.  Can this marriage survive it?

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