I think that's a great idea, msbelle. Structure is good.

I'm thinking of buying a bunch of cheap flashdrives and copying pictures onto them, to give away to visiting family. My dad scanned a ton of old family photos and it would be great to share at least some of them.

Consuela, that's a great idea. I need to do that with photos of my mom and grandmother.

I guess I need to find a different way to keep track of things.

It probably doesn't help if you don't have a smartphone, but I put everything on my Google calendar. Birthdays, appointments, flights, brunch plans, movie plans, rent, air filter changes, time for new contact lenses. If a bill isn't on autopay, I have it send me an email alert.

My life is ruled by iCal.

My ancient Palm E2 Tungsten has a Tasks apps that has saved me much grief when I'm going "Oh, god, did I pay the insurance!" Though it does require me looking at it.

iCal and Google Calendar are great for me--especially now that I set each reminder specifically. 15 minutes is no good for anything except for "leave for the cinema!" However, when something isn't added, crisis.

Astrid can also create calendar entries based on tasks, so that helps too.

I don't track monthly bills other than rent, but yearly things like tax and registration are in Astrid with plenty of snooze time.

Came to the ER at doc's orders--have received one dose of "WTF are these even??" and one of "that doesn't even tickle!" But at least they're willing to admit. PLEASE let me only miss one day of work. I feel like SHIT for this to be my first official day with the new guy. And he leaves town tomorrow.

Consuela, that's a brilliant idea.

Screwed up on getting my license back, thanks to listening to the instructions from my attorney who apparently knows nothing about traffic violations and how this shit works in the real world, and my own busied frazzledness. Am now in a holding pattern waiting for my license reinstatement authorization to arrive by snail mail, instead of the instant web-printout he'd promised.

It's my own fault for not investigating more thoroughly.

No license today!

Timelies all!

Used the treadmill today, for the first time in a couple of weeks.(Combination of laziness and schedule issues.)

McPhee got through to mac. He will return to camp. If there is good behavior and cooperation she will pick him up at 2pm some days. Turdiness will result in 3pm pickup and no electronics. When picked up he will do chores, read and have some non electronic play before video games.

I spoke with him about doing some educational stuff other than just reading his assigned summer reading book and he is open to that so I am gonna put together art, music, geography, and history lesson folders for him to do work from. Luckily I know several homeschooler people and a few on pinterest that I can pull stuff from.

A social worker just came up to me and complimented me on my portrait of the pharmacist. That I did over a month ago. She was so sweet, and I have no clue how I got IDed. I am drawing, but there are a couple more puzzle pieces than that.

He has it up at his (shared) desk!