I can't use any sort of reminder system that doesn't stay in front of my face at all times, because I just forget to look at it. Tasks in Gmail is helpful just because I check Gmail all the time, and the Tasks bar is right there.

I just wish I could access Tasks on my phone, but I can't figure out how.

I ordered a turkey sandwich with honey mustard and banana peppers for lunch, and I got a tuna sandwich with banana peppers. It is the cafeteria delivery, so I don't really want to take the time to complain and get someone back here, but I am disappointed. They put far too much tuna on their sandwiches, and it is not great tuna, and it has too much mayo/miracle whip. They also did not bring chips AND it is in an AU Bon Pain bag, and they are not Au Bon Pain-- I think the regular person was out today.

I'm currently using a vinyl chalkboard in my kitchen for task management. Very satisfying.

I also keep my appointments in a Daytimer, though from years of experience, I've reduced my paper usage in that to two pages per month. I started out with two pages per day and have whittled it down due to underusage...the two pages are plenty.

Lastly, a friend and I have instituted a 10:30am call each weekday where we list three things we intend to do for the day and report on the three things we planned the previous day. It's a bit creaky getting the process rolling (I missed the call this morning due to lack of attention...but rang in less than an hour late.)

It's sort of a verbal kan ban.

So far, so good!

My friend hipped me to a zen habits article about doing the hard stuff first. This is proving to be a major challenge to me, as is evidenced by a) it being noon-thirty and I have only done email and puttering around the internet and b) a major project intended for the first of the year that is now 4 months over due. Sigh.

A Serbian woman who used to work in the costume shop before moving back to Aerbia called that "doing your frog " (the frog being the hard thing). It made me laugh at the time, but it does help.

That's so funny, my friend calls it 'eating the frog.' Huh. Must be a similar derivation.

"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

Often attributed to Mark Twain, but more probably derived from 18th century French wit Nicolas Chamfort, who wrote:

M. de Lassay, a very indulgent man, but with a great knowledge of society, said that we should swallow a toad every morning, in order to fortify ourselves against the disgust of the rest of the day, when we have to spend it in society.

Man. That is dark.

Well, I think I shall skip the eating a frog part, but I did let one of the employees go this morning, which counts. One of Bobby's friends no less. He really didn't have any counter position when suggesting that this really wasn't a good fit for him. On account of it being true. Still, no fun. I dislike being the bearer of bad news. Now to spend the rest of the day working on fixing all the stuff he messed up. Sigh.

We call that worst first in our house and use it both to describe homework, chores, and sometimes dinnertime.

I am thinking I need to do a massive brain dump of things I want/need to do at the home. Something that will prompt me though to look at it or better yet would let me track when things get completed and move the next task up the list.

I'm thinking about doing a retro pin-up photo shoot as a present (well, the pictures will be the present [which I suppose is stating the obvious]) to Tim for our 1st anniversary. This place is running a 50% off Groupon right now, so I'm really tempted to do the 1- or 2-outfit package. But my jerkbrain is all "Yeah, your husband thinks you're attractive, but seriously, not pin-up attractive, what is wrong with you?" So I'm torn because my jerkbrain is a jerk.