Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I have only 47.68 MB of storage in my work email. I clean out all the damn time, by necessity as much as anything. We are supposed to move to a newer system next summer.
I delete a lot. I keep CYA and things I'll forget. I have 20-40 "in progress" emails in my inbox at any given time (the oldest of which dates back 15 months now, but I'm not emotionally ready to order business cards yet!)
I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.
I'm always amazed when I see people with hundreds of unread emails.
I only clean out Sent becuase I use it as a reminder list for things I'm waiting for. I guess I could use flags, but I like being able to see the whole list at once in both my Inbox and Sent.
The few unread e-mails I have, I have actually reviewed in the preview pane, but they are things that I can't deal with at the moment but I want them to draw my eye.
Some of that is a habit learned from working with my old contracts manager. She put return receipts on everything and expected you to respond immediately once you had read the message. Sometimes she would call as soon as she got the receipt to talk about the message. If I just looked at it in the preview pane, she wouldn't get the receipt and I'd have more time before I had to deal. So glad I don't work with her anymore.
Love IM. Quick conversation and no phone call or email to deal with. WIN!
I keep my inbox pretty clean. I'm scared to see how nuts it'll be after my 5 month maternity leave. Yikes.
Notice how I'm not taking part in the clean-out-yer-inbox conversation? It's because I have nothing to add to it. Anyone who has seen my house knows exactly how messy my inbox is.
Sigh.
Oh well.
I need some natter, y'all. I'm at work for 5 more hours, much of it sitting around doing nothing. I need distractions.
It's so sunny and warm we got out the bouncy house. Liv and I cleaned it up a bit--it had some mildew from winter storage. A spray bottle with some bleach water took care of it.
I'm always surprised by how much fun bouncing is.
My inbox is a wreck.
msbelle, thanks for the package! Owen always loves new stuff!
I met with the movers and they are estimating my household weight at 7650.
Also, mac took $20 off the kitchen counter and bought himself trading cards. He also came home with some crappy electronic music player from school, he already has an ipod dammit.
Mac and his classmates have quite the enterprise going on. I don't recall ever doing the kind of buying/trading he does.