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!

So, this gala I decided to do arrangements in Soil Moist (the silica you find in your shoes that says "don't eat!") and is sold as a soil amemdment. Friday things were looking murky, and I was cursing myself for being all experimental with flower arranging for a gala. Things still looked like shite Saturday morning, and I redid almost everthing the morning of the gala, and they came out satisfactory.

Days later, I am still receiving kudos for the arrangements and tons of inquiries as to how I did them. ( a lot of fucking around!).

So it seems I got lots of potential interest for sidejobs!

I feel so good that despite my misgivings, they worked out.

I am very grateful to McPhee.

I spoke with him about doing some educational stuff other than just reading his assigned summer reading book and he is open to that

One thing that has worked for me to keep me sane over summer has been kid-driven projects. Like letting Franny write her own books, or wanting to make silk screened shirts, or letting the kids teach themselves how to do some kid-level programming, etc. And encouraging them to look things up online and in books. Of course, I now have kids who are much more interested in pulling info than they are in information that's pushed on them.

Good luck, ita. I hope they fix you up right. And soon.