It's the weekend! Yay!!

I'm so glad it's finally the weekend! Well, I still have to work some tonight (Sat), but besides that I only have fun stuff planned for the rest of the weekend. Ain't it cool?? The only problem is that my computer finally passed away. It was agonizing since a couple months, since DBF partitioned my HD. Almost all the softwares were acting weird because they couldn't find their "way", and since my computer crashed the other day, it's not working anymore, I get a blue screen right after starting it. Anyway, since I can't scrap, I'll watch some movies, enjoy the gorgeous weather and just enjoy my weekend. I've done all the boring stuff (errands, bank appointement) this morning and now I'm ready to have fun! Yeepeee!

Thursday check up... how am I doing?

Here's what I planned to do today:

• 20 minutes exercise DONE!
  
• morning routine DONE!
• midday routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!
• 15 minutes on PPW DONE!
• 15 minutes on office organizing DONE!
• 30 minutes on RSS decluttering DONE!
• buy bread DONE!
• 1 load of laundry: wash, hang up, pick up, fold, put away DONE!
• maintain RSS reader DONE!
• check SSD + TDC at least once DONE!
• evening routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!
• pedicure while watching Desperate Housewives not done, I just enjoyed the show doing NOTHING... soooooo good!!

Wednesday check up... how am I doing?

• 20 minutes exercise DONE!
  
• morning routine DONE!
• midday routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!
• 15 minutes on PPW: get account infos and send automatic payement's authorization for phone bills and make appt with bank about fees DONE!
• 15 minutes on office organizing DONE!
• 30 minutes on RSS decluttering DONE!
• pick up, fold and put away dry laundry DONE!
• maintain RSS reader DONE!
• check SSD + TDC at least once DONE!
• call Nanie DONE!
• scrap 1 LO started, but I feel really handicapped since my ACDSee isn't working!
  
• evening routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!

Marcia Francois rocks, once again!

I just love Marcia's blog, it's full of great tips about organizing. She posted today about office organisation, and I can't wait to put her tips in action. The girl has some super-power: she always posts about something that I'm in the middle of! LOL I'll take a before picture of my desk, keep working on it all week and post the after picture probably this weekend.

In the meantime, have a look at Marcia's blog, I'm sure you'll love it!!

Tuesday check up... how am I doing?

Here's what I wanted to get done today:

• 20 minutes exercise DONE!
  
• morning routine DONE!
• midday routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!
• 15 minutes on PPW: check cleaning lady's 2009 summary for my taxes DONE!
• 15 minutes on office organizing DONE!
• 30 minutes on RSS decluttering DONE!
• 1 load of laundry: wash, hang up outside DONE!
• maintain RSS reader DONE!
• check SSD + TDC at least once DONE!
• ironing while watching House MD DONE!
• evening routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!

Monday check up... how am I doing?

Here's what I wanted to do today... how's it going?

• 20 minutes exercise DONE!
  
• morning routine DONE!
• midday routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!
• 15 minutes on PPW: check with bank about my fees DONE!
• 15 minutes on office organizing DONE!
• 30 minutes on RSS decluttering DONE!
• maintain RSS reader DONE!
• check SSD + TDC at least once DONE!
• ironing while watching Millennium DONE!
• evening routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!) DONE!

Besides that, I went back to work today. It wasn't as terrible as I expected, which is quite a good news! Always see the positive, right? LOL

Wow, have you seen that?? I've been soooooo productive and efficient today! Love this!! The best part is that I got everything accomplished even though I got out of this office 45 minutes late! Go me!!

Weekly plan

Here's what I want to do this week:
Daily:

• 20 minutes exercise
• morning routine
• midday routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!)
• 15 minutes on PPW (see below)
  
• 15 minutes on office organizing
  
• 30 minutes on RSS decluttering
• maintain RSS reader
• check SSD + TDC at least once
  
• evening routine (esp. clean dishes right after eating!)

During the week:

• Get account infos and send automatic payement's authorization for phone bills
• Check with old bank about fees
• Check with bank about DBF's fees
• Check with bank about my fees
• Fill taxes PPW for DBF
• Check cleaning lady's 2009 summary for my taxes
• Check "wood-tax" online and call if necessary
• 3 loads of laundry
• plan next week's menu and grocery shopping list
  

Evenings:

• Monday: ironing while watching Millenium
• Tuesday: ironing while watching House M.D.
• Wednesday: scrap
• Thursday: pedicure while watching Desperate Housewives
• Friday: scrap

Errands:

• Buy bread on Thursday
• Chicken farm on Friday
  

To Do list for the rest of my vacation

Here's what I'll do over the next days:
Thursday:

• pick up kitchen
• pick up bedroom
  
• finish backing up on new EHD in progress, about 40% done since I started... 24 hours ago... ARGH!
  
• RSS reader: no unread messages (47 as I started) DONE!
  
• 2x15 minutes on PPW (1 session on health PPW and one on other stuff)
• clean laundry room DONE! and maybe start painting it DONE: we painted the walls and put the primer on the concrete floor... Good job!
• give meds to our cat
  
• scrap 1 LO DONE!

Friday:

• EHD back up in progress, about 60% done at 11:00 AM
  
• keep on working on laundry room (floor's 1st layer of paint) DONE!
• pick up kitchen DONE!
• pick up bedroom DONE!
• 2x15 minutes on e-mails DONE!
• clean kitchen and bathroom DONE!, vacuum house DONE!, mop kitchen DONE!
• 3x15 minutes on office cleaning DONE!
• 2x15 minutes on PPW 1 DONE!
• plan next week's menus and shopping list DONE!
• post yesterday's LO DONE! + scrap at least 1 LO DONE!
• maintain RSS reader DONE!
• give meds to our cat ARGH, I forgot again!
  

Saturday:

• 20 minutes exercise Ugh, my TOTM started and I feel terrible... I can forget it!
  
• unload dishwasher and deep clean it DONE!
• go grocery shopping DONE!
• keep on working on laundry room (floor's second layer of paint) DONE!
• EHD back up in progress, I "just" have my huuuuuuge photo file left!
  
• unload pix from vacation when (if??) back up is done
• 2x15 minutes on e-mails 1 DONE!
• maintain RSS reader DONE!
• 3x15 minutes on PPW 1 DONE!
• 2x15 minutes on office cleaning/organizing
• change litter DONE!
• take pix of a military event for work DONE! I thought I'd spend 30 minutes there, it took me 1 1/2 hour!
  
• scrap at least 1 LO DONE!
• give meds to our cat forgotten 3 days in a row...
  

Sunday:

• 20 minutes exercise still feeling terrible because of my TOTM... will start tomorrow
  
• 5x15 minutes on e-mails 3 DONE!
• finish EHD back up DONE!
• maintain RSS reader + purge old reader in progress, I probably won't finish this today!
  
• 4x15 minutes on PPW 1 DONE, decided to focus on old RSS reader instead
• 4x15 minutes on office cleaning decided to focus on old RSS reader instead
  
• scrap at least 1 LO
• 1 load of laundry: wash, hang up outside DONE! , pick up DONE! and put away
  

Today's To Do's

Gotta get back into the swing of things and back to work. Here's what I want to do today:

• pick up kitchen
  
• pick up living room DONE!
  
• pick up bathroom DONE!
• pick up bedroom
  
• 2 loads of laundry: wash, hang up DONE!
• finish to unpack DONE!
• plan menus for the end of the week DONE! + shopping list DONE!
• go grocery shopping + buy special paint for the laundry room DONE!
• unload pix from vacation
• 2x15 minutes on digi decluttering Bought a new EHD, I'm backing up right now... it's gonna take a loooooooong time!
  
• RSS reader: no unread messages (225 right now) 75 unread messages left so far!
  
• 2x15 minutes on PPW (1 session on health PPW and one on other stuff)

I'm baaaaaack!

I had a great time in Switzerland, enjoyed to see everyone there, took tons of pictures. Can't wait to unpack and be back to normal!

I'm on vacation!

I'm leaving for Switzerland in a couple hours, and I'm not sure I'll have time to access the internet so in the meantime... have fun! See ya on Tuesday!

Recent LOs

Gosh, it feels so good to scrap again! Here are some LOs I created recently:

Check my TDC or DST galleries for credits.

Grab'em while you still can!

SSD is having the traditional and Oh-so-great GGG (going going gone) sale: tons and tons of soon-to-be-retired products are getting on sale. I've picked for 180$ of stuff, but managed to reduce my wishlist to 50 buck... pretty good, uh? Still have to rethink about it, I'm feeling guilty to spend that much on those kit, even though they are just FABULOUS. Here are some of my faves:
For the color combo and the doodles:
To scrap pix of Kira:
For the bright colors and the girly feel:
For the hopefully coming pregnancy!
For the color combo (again) and for the girly-yet-not-cheesy details
And finally for the fabulous color combo (do you see a trend with that??? LOL):
All images are linked... go have a look, there is some fabulous stuff there!!

Next days' plan

Since I'm at it, I guess I could as well plan my to do's for the coming days as well! Here we go:
Saturday:

• go grocery shopping DONE!
  
• sort clothes DONE! and drop the unneeded ones at charity will do it on Tuesday
  
• go with DBF pick new curtains for our living room will do it on Wednesday
• create 1 LO DONE!
• clean microwave DONE!
• Computer: 30 minutes decluttering e-mails DONE!, 30 minutes on RSS DONE! and I don't have any unread message! YAY!!!, 30 minutes on zips DONE: I got rid of 1 gig!
• make appointement at hair salon DONE!

Sunday:

• Celebrate Easter with inlaws DONE!
• clean oven DONE!
• Computer: 30 minutes decluttering e-mails, 30 minutes on RSS DONE!, 30 minutes on zips DONE: 3 more Gig gone, 4 Gig total!
• back up photos and LOs
• wash and hang up 2 loads of laundry 1 DONE, I don't have enough dirty laundry to do the next one!!!!
• create 2 LOs 1 DONE, I finally decided to watch CSI instead of scrapping the second one!!

Monday:

• check bank account's report
• declutter laundry room Forget it, I'm sick, feeling way too lazy for that!
  
• Computer: 2x30 minutes decluttering e-mails DONE!, 30 minutes on RSS DONE!, 30 minutes on zips
• back up LOs and photos DONE!
• create 1 LO DONE!

Tuesday:

• declutter desk DONE!
• check bank account's reports DONE!
• wash and hang up outside 1 load of laundry DONE, pick it up and put it away when it's dry DONE!
• declutter laundry room started, will have to finish tomorrow.
  
• Computer: 30 minutes decluttering e-mails DONE!, 30 minutes on RSS DONE!, 2x30 minutes on zips DONE: 3 Go gone today, that's 7 Go over the past days... still have much work to do, but it feels great already!!
• Start planning trip to Switzerland DONE!
• 3:30 PM hair salon appt DONE!
• drop the unneeded clothes at charity DONE!

Wednesday:

• Computer: 30 minutes decluttering e-mails, 30 minutes on RSS, 30 minutes on zips the software doesn't work... GRRRR!!!
• go with DBF pick new curtains for our living room DONE!
• pack for trip to Switzerland DONE, just have the last minute items to add!
• deep clean the washer DONE!
• finish decluttering laundry room DONE!
• finalize SSD's GGG order DONE!, download DONE!, unzip DONE!, tag in ACDSee the software doesn't work... GRRRR!!!
  

Oschterputz

It's the alsatian word for spring cleaning, and what I plan on doing today. I really have to get my house back in control, I feel like I've been walking on the edge of a mountain for 1 1/2 month, and any little wind could make me fall down the disorganization hill: my kitchen is a mess, my office is just one huge pile of stuff with bills and tax papers buried in it, I haven't find time to scrap or do anything creative for waaaaay too long... I don't like living that way. Anyway, here's what I plan on doing today:

• Laundry: put away anything clean DONE!, wash and hang up 2 loads DONE!, pick them up and put them away tonight if the weather is good enought to have them dry outside Too cold and rainy.
• Kitchen: load DONE!, run DONE! and unload dishwasher DONE!, hand wash pots and pans DONE!, put away everything DONE!
• Weekly cleaning: pick up house, dust, vacuum, mop DONE!
• Bathroom: shower, sink, toilet DONE!
• Change cat litter DONE!
• Computer: 30 minutes decluttering on e-mails DONE! and 30 minutes on RSS reader DONE!
• Plan next week's menus DONE! and write down grocery shopping list DONE!
• Fun stuff: create 1 LO

Aaaaaah, I feel better already having everything planned! Now onto getting it done!!

Poor blog of mine

I really don't treat you well, forgetting about your existence when mine gets chaotic... And it has definitely been, recently! I first had a lot to do at work... and I mean A LOT! I work for my town and we celebrated the 65th anniversary of the town's Liberation, which meant a huge event to organize, mayor's speech to write, many people to coordinate, etc. It went well, thankfully, even if the rain... or rather storm... started right in the middle of the ceremony.

Since then I've been busy preparing our first IUI (intra-uterine insemination) that finally happened on Monday, March 29th. Can't wait to know if it worked... 15 more days to wait, the suspense is killing me already! I'm feeling ok, yet really tired and emotional. Don't know if it's because of work stress or because of the hormonal treatement, but I just feel like staying in bed all day, even if I can't sleep (woke up at 4:19 AM this morning... Ugh!!!)

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to take some days off, celebrate Easter with inlaws and then go to Switzerland to see my family and friends, especially my BFF's little daughter Ambre! Yay!!!

Positivity journal - 03.15

Today, I...

• got my first shot for my TTC treatement, the IUI should be this weekend or rather on the beginning of next week. And it didn't hurt! And we'll be able to avoid getting the IUI on Sunday, when I have a huge professional event that I couldn't miss!! YAY!!
  
• got confronted to a very very bad situation and had the right reaction, even if that kind of situation is always very complicated.
• didn't lose my temper when 2 out of 6 people let me down 24 hours before a very important job, and found replacement people!
  

Positivity journal - 03.14

On Sunday I...

• voted and felt really blessed for living in a democracy
• had good hopes that "my side" will win the elections
  
• managed not to slam my boss when he made a really mean and stupid comment about me
• had a lovely dinner with DBF

Positivity journal - 03.09 to 03.13

Tuesday:

• I finished the town magazine that I was working on for weeks, and I'm happy with the result! It was a hard work and I'm soooooooo glad it's done
  

Wednesday:

• After a couple more flaws to correct, the town magazine is getting printed and out of my mind.
• I finally worked decent hours again (like... not 12 of them!)
• I watched a soccer game (something really rare for me) and the team we supported won!

Thursday:

• I was able to organize my desk and it helps me feel productive again.
• I got many little tasks done at work, you know that kind of tasks that you put aside when you have a big something in mind (like a town magazine of 36 pages) and then re-discover when the big task is over.
• I'm having issues with someone at work, a collegue who is very arrogant and thinks she's everyone's boss, and I was able to talk about it with our actual boss. I didn't got emotional and drama-queen about it, I talked about facts, on a professional level, and this is a big thing for me!

Friday:

• It's Friday!
• I helped a friend from work (preparing the elections)
• I got an unexpected phonecall at work, since my bosses were unavailable I had to manage it on my own and I got good feedback on my initiative from my bosses later on!
• I got back to a clean home... I'm so lucky to be able to afford a cleaning lady!

Saturday:

• I bought a great DVD that will help people in need: each DVD represents 18 meals, 1 million of them are sold each year.
• I went grocery shopping with DBF and we resisted the junk food temptations
• I re-discovered the greatest genius of French music of all time, Georges Brassens.
  

Weekend plan

Now that I FINALLY have a (somehow) calmer weekend, I can get back to get something productive accomplished. Here's what I plan for these 2 days (in order of priority):

• take pix on Sat morning ("pick up the environment" operation, love green! LOL) DONE! and afternoon (badminton competition) DONE! for work
• work at the polling station Sun late afternoon and evening
• call the nurse to postpone the starting of my treatement DONE!
• write down next week's menus and shopping list, go shopping DONE!
• put away dry laundry DONE!, wash and hang up 2 loads of laundry (especially DBF's new t-shirts) DONE!
• catch up on positivity journal (mine DONE! and others)
• catch up on TDC DONE!, SSD and local scrapbookers' community DONE! websites
• pick up bedroom so that the nurse can get in there to make me the shots on Monday (without me being ashamed by the state of this room! LOL)
• fix sewing issues on 2 pants
  
• 15 minutes on e-mail + normal maintenance
• 2x15 minutes on health PPW
  
• 15 minutes on PPW
• 2x15 minutes on RSS
• 2x15 minutes on zips