The Intervention
Posted: August 8, 2011 Filed under: clothes, friends, home making, knitting, Life Lessons, organising, procrastination, routines, teaching, working 1 Comment »Just when I thought ”interventions” were only done on rather scary reality TV shows I found myself the “victim” of a very large intervention on Sunday. There I was, innocently drinking coffee with a good friend of mine and relating the events of my week when she announced that we were going to deal with my clothes. My pleas to finish the coffee and continue chatting were ignored and we were off into the bedroom to begin.
Clothes flew and were flung in all directions in the hours that followed. Luckily she is a really good friend because comments included “No!”, “Frumpy!”, “Get rid of it”, “What were you thinking?” and “Did your mother choose this?” I should hasten to say that I owned only one item of clothing chosen by my mother and it has now gone to a better place. The final tally was five small gar bags of clothes to go to charity, three small gar bags of stuff that I will fit into soon and best of all, a wardrobe which contains only items that I can wear right now. It is the first time in my adult life that I can remember having such a wardrobe. The aforementioned gar bags went into the back of my friend’s car so there were no chances for me to change my mind and the three bags of ambition clothes are going to be boxed up in plastic crates so that nothing nasty befalls them. The wire coathangers were all dispatched to the garbage bin and the plastic coated wire hangers were deemed to be only good for hanging up my husband’s shirts. I have most hangers the same the now and all facing in the same direction – revolutionary!
I still have the shoe section to go and a few drawers but they seem easy compared to the task of tackling that overstuffed wardrobe. I am eagerly anticipating being able to pull out something to wear very easily from those places as well.
The flow on effect from this will be the ease with which I can put together outfits the night before to wear the next day. I’m intending on having Plan A outfits for days that I am working and Plan B outfits for days that I am not. The drawback is that I don’t have as many clothes but when I think about it I don’t really have less clothes because the ones that are not there could not be worn anyway. So it is full of win all round really.
The saying “Knowledge is Power” could certainly be applied to my fateful Sunday afternoon too. I was lucky enough to attend a High Tea on the previous Saturday where we met Suzy the Stylist. Prior to that day I never would have thought that I had anything to gain from listening to a stylist given that I am overweight, the majority of my clothes are bargain buys and I usually buy things without trying them on because of time pressures. Boy was I wrong!
I now know that I have curvy figure (somewhere under there!) and what to do about dressing for that figure. I know exactly what to look for now in shops and which items of clothing I would like to buy when I next have the opportunity. Because I was also able to look at things through a “knitter’s lens” as well I now know why some of my projects look good and why some of them should never have seen the light of day. I am actually having one piece frogged, the wool washed and rewound so that I can knit something else with it! Best of all when someone mentions a knitting pattern on Ravelry I know immediately whether it will work for me or not.
So while it isn’t an extensive wardrobe, it is completely functional and even though I needed to sit down for quite a while and collect my thought post-intervention I am really glad that it happened. And to my dear friend – Thank-you. I needed to be bossed around and I’m truly glad that you did so.
And now dear readers:
Have you ever been part of an intervention? Either intervening or being the “intervenee”?
How do you organise your clothes?
If you are losing weight, what are you planning to do with your clothes?
Websites I Am Always Talking About
Posted: June 21, 2011 Filed under: blogging, cleaning, computer, craft, dishes, Family, finances, friends, home making, knitting, laundry, organising 2 Comments »I probably don’t frequent as many websites as most people, sticking to Facebook and Google Reader for the blogs that I enjoy. However when I am talking to people about the things I love I often mention certain websites and am not always ina position to write them down. The goal of writing this post is for people to refer to my blog for my favourite sites!
The Book Depository 
- There is a UK site as well as others in other countries. It is a place to buy lots of different books at greatly reduced prices and there are no shipping costs. They seem to send the books as soon as they have them available so when I made my first order a few months ago I actually received three separate parcels in the mail – good fun all in itself! As an example of the possible savings, I bought two knitting books which sell for $45 each here and by using Book Depository I paid about $22 each.
Strawberry.net - I was put on to this site quite recently by a good friend when my skin was suffering from the cold and dryness and I was finding that my products froma rather cheap direct sales company were irritating my skin and not being very effective at all. Back in the day, before children, mortgages and financial strife I used to use Clinique products and loved them. I had given them up because they were simply too expensive and I was finding that I used them too sparingly to do any good. Now I am back to using Clinique, having paid very low prices to get some items and my skin is really showing the benefits and feeling fantastic. There is no shipping coast and extremely fast service. Just as an aside, the same friend put me onto Blinc mascara. It is seriously the best mascara ever and lasts through absolutely everything because it actaully puts little “tubes” of mascara around each lash which stay there until rubbed gently with a wet washcloth. When you rub them off you can actually see the little tubes on the washcloth and there is no residue smudged around the eyes. Obviously they are very fine tubes and there is no ill-effect on the lashes. To quote Molly Meldrum, if you are a mascara wearer, “do yourself a favour” and try some of this stuff because it really is wodnerful!
CafePress – I am very happy to be the owner of two knitting t-shirts and one teaching t-shirt from this fantastic site. There are shirts, sweaters and a range of other products with slogans and graphics for almost any occupation or hobby you could dream of. It is worth a browse just for the entertainment value of what sayings they have on offer. My knitting shirts are “I knit so I don’t kill people” and “Keep calm and carry yarn”. My teaching shirt is “I teach, what’s your superpower?” There is some shipping cost but the service is faultless and they are a very good quality product.
Ravelry – Whenever I am talking to someone who is beginning to knit or crochet I invariably ask them if they have been on Ravelry. It is a networking site for knitting, crochet and spinning and has thousands of members who share patterns, yarns and finished projects. You can sign up for free and either browse through what’s on offer or start your own Ravelry “notebook” with pictures of your projects and links to the patterns and yarns used as well as where you obtained them. because of all these notebooks you can search for a type of project or yarn and find almost countless results. It is very useful for when you want ideas for a particular item like beanies or tea cosies or if you are deciding on whether to use a particular yarn or pattern. Just make sure you have a spare 4-5 hours to spend browsing if you decide to have a look.
FlyLady – As I get back on my feet quite literally I am using and will continue to use FlyLady. It is all about organising yourself and your house to take the best possible care of yourself and your loved ones. I could write pages about how good her system is but it would be far better to just pay the FlyLady a visit and check her out for yourself.
Step by Step back to “normal” life
Posted: June 11, 2011 Filed under: ankles, Anthony, crutches, Daniel, friends, health, hospital, Life Lessons, relief teaching, routines, teaching, working 2 Comments »Or as normal as it ever gets! I’
ve officially been cleared to work again, I’m no longer wearing splints and walking longer and longer distances until i start limping again and need to stop. I did alarm the physio with a very swollen left ankle (the fractured tibia one) on Friday night so I am taped up for the duration of the long weekend but flesh coloured tape is much less conspicuous than big black lace up splints.
There are so many things you take for granted until you have your mobility taken away from you. I’m really enjoying things like:
having a shower standing up
carrying things around from one place to another
walking around places
being able to get up off chairs
getting my own cup of coffee and indeed getting cuppas for other people
walking along hand in hand with my little boy
DRIVING – even though I have to use Anthony’s car for the time being.
I’m in the process of transitioning from convalescence to supply teaching again and I feel as if I am launching myself onto the world as a whole new person. A wise person told me that all these thigns happen for a reason and I found that statement hard to take as I hobbled around on crutches. But now, as I find myself on the way out of it all I believe she may have known what she was talking about after all.
What do I really need right now?
Posted: May 27, 2011 Filed under: Daniel, Eric, exercise, Food, friends, gym, health, Life Lessons, sleeping, Weight Watchers 5 Comments »Thanks to a very generous friend who has negotiated her way through peak hour traffic to pick me up last Thursday and the Thursday, I’ve been able to re-join Weight Watchers and start again. I know that quite a few people who know me well will be saying to themselves, “Here she goes again. What will be different this time?”
Well, there are quite a few differences already. I’ve got a Chronic Condition Health Care plan set in place by my wonderful GP which will give me access to an exercise physiologist (a cross between a personal trainer and a physiotherapist). My GP will be keeping a closer eye on things and the nurse who is part of the practice will keep up with me too.
I am still seeing my wonderful physio as my ankles continue to heal and he and I have been discussing possible exercise options for now while my ankles are still quite wobbly and weak and later when I can do more weight bearing exercise.
I’ve been to the gym and was quietly pedalling the recumbent bike as I had been instructed by the physio when the trainer asked if I would like to join in a weights circuit with three other ladies. After a bit of encouragement from him, I did join in and much to my amazement, I was able to complete a 45 minute circuit with very few modifications. It was the most amazing feeling to do that successfully.
I’ve got a great circle of friends who are “in the loop” about my efforts and are encouraging me every step of the way. Eric is right behind me cheering me on and Daniel, who still lacks tact and diplomacy at almost 8, has asked whether my big belly (which he illustrates by holding his arms out wide) to going to shrink up to the size of his belly. Probably a bit extreme but he is being positive in his own way.
One of my friends is going to join the same Weight Watchers meeting as me so I will be meeting up with her each week. I can’t say how glad I am about this. Not only will I get a free pampering session and she a 3 month movie pass due to a membership promotion but I will look forward to seeing someone each week who is truly on my side and has much the same dry sense of humour as myself.
However the number 1 things are weighing in each week (which involves fronting up the the very formidable Carol) and staying for the meeting. I certainly won’t paraphrase the meeting content here because if you want that you should really go to Weight Watchers yourself. But when we recieve information, we all process it in different ways and take away our own responses and hopefully, action plans.
This week was all about monitoring hunger signals. We discussed the difference between being so hungry that you would eat almost anything to having eaten so much that you feel like your clothes would burst. Ideally we should aim for something in between. That is going to happen for different people in different ways but for me hunger signals are controlled when I eat small amounts often during the day, keep moving and maintain my water intake. Please excuse me for a moment while I uncap my trusty water bottle and take a big swig.
Ah, that’s better.
We have discussed many mantras and saying that we can use to keep our goals in mind and to stay on track. It was recommended that we have a saying that describes ourselves at a healthy weight in the present tense and includes some tings we can do or have achieved. Mine is:
I am slim, fit and focussed.
Then I thought more about what would help me to monitor my hunger signals and indeed, lots of other signals from my body and I came up with this:
What do I really need right now?
Some of the answers to that question in the last few days have been:
salad instead of chips
baked fish instead of crumbed fish
more water instead of more coffee
one small dessert that I really liked instead of just eating dessert whenever it was offered whether I really liked it or not
doing my physio stretches
walking a few more steps
keeping up with my pain relief so I could keep up with moving more and healing faster
not staying up for the end of the movie/tv show but going to bed when I needed to
taking a nap during the day when I needed it
doing something pleasurable during the day
talking to people who woud help me with making good choices
So far in one week I have lost one kilo. But that isn’t really important in the
big scheme of things because I have gained so many other really important things.
Another Knitting Metaphor
Posted: May 19, 2011 Filed under: friends, knitting, Life Lessons 1 Comment »A very dear friend of mine has recently taken up knitting. I am absolutely thrilled about this as it almost feels like I have a knitting protegee. I only wish we lived closer to each other so we could sit down together with some good coffee and yarn – and knit. LOL!
Her first project was, quite wisely, a cotton discloth which she knitted over teh course of about a day. I told my boys about her starting knitting and how she’d finisheda project that took a day and Daniel was heard to remark, “Well she must be a much better knitter than you!” At age almost 8 he lacks a lot of diplomacy and can put people in tehir place very abruptly.
When my friend’s first project was finished, she sent me a text saying that it had a bit of a factory second look about it. That immediately reminded me of my dream balnket that I began knitting during a time when things weren’t going very well. The first panel had many, many mistakes but as I progressed there were hardly any. I’m not attempting to fix the mistakes because they are not enough to make the blanket unravel and just like certain events they will be around in the future where they will remind me of where I was a at that time. It is something like how most people will remember exactly where they were when the recent royal wedding was taking place.
My dear friend, the new knitter, has also faced some challenges lately. I’m hoping she will be able to look back at her dishcloth sometime in the future with its slight imperfections and to remember how she went on to re-shape her life after some hurdles. I hope she also recalls how the simple repetitive movements gave her some momentary serenity and calm in teh middle of some turbulence. There is no doubt in my mind that she will get through this “rough patch” and be even stronger and wiser for doing so. And in the meantime, she can just keep knitting!
The View from Here
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: ankles, Anthony, craft, cross stitch, crutches, Daniel, Eric, friends, health, knitting, Little Athletics, reading, sewing, sleeping, Weight Watchers, working 3 Comments »
The camera worked for long enough this afternoon to get a shot of my very unattractive ankles in socks and splints. They look a bit powdery because I need to put on prickly heat powder before the socks so I don’t get driven mad with itching and it certainly makes me glad not to be in plaster.
Today hasn’t been a good day. I’ve been down, teary and tired all day. It was a combination of things. I was still pathetically exhausted after my trip to hydrotherapy yesterday, today was bit of an anti-climax because I wasn’t going anywhere and I’m not going anywhere for the foreseeable future. Hydrotherapy will only continue once it is approved by Work Cover as I already had had the five automatically allowed physio sessions while in hospital. It is really my only prospect of getting out of the house because we will be reimbursed for the cab fare. I’m not able to drive yet and I don’t know how long it will be before I get behind the wheel. If I was to get taken somewhere like a shopping centre I would have to hire a wheelchair and then have someone to push it. The potential “someones” are either a bit old to be pushing me in a wheel chair or they have small children to deal with. We can’t afford to spend any money on cabs that will not be reimbursed as my work prospects are going to be limited once again and for who knows how long.
Dh is working full time 5 days a week and may be doing overtime on Saturday and of course the boys are at school. They will be off on holidays at the end of next week but we will still be housebound because it is too far from here to get to any public transport and we cannot afford cabs. The book club girls took me out last night for coffee and book discussion but I came away from that realizing that everyone is still really busy and the fact that I am out of action doesn’t change that. So while plenty of people have asked, “What can I do to help?”, I’ve really only been able to ask for people to bring the boys home from school and even that was quite difficult to organise. Life goes on as normal for everyone else which means they don’t have time to stop for visits or cups of tea. Everyone balances multiple roles and has a busy schedule including me when I’m not on crutches. So I can hardly ask someone to pick me up and cart me around in a wheelchair and no one really has spare time to spend here with me. I think all of that hit home for me this afternoon and I felt really black.
The flood of phone calls and text messages that happened while I was in hospital has dried up to almost nothing. I’m lucky if I get two texts in a day and no one has time for phone calls these days. There isn’t really much to say either because I don’t know when things will improve with my ankles and there is nothing happening here at home.
I also realised that I wouldn’t be able to get to Weight Watchers tomorrow night as I had planned because the boys have hockey training. I cannot ask them to miss it as they missed out already last week while I was in hospital and it is on every Thursday so with great sadness I changed my Weight Watchers subscription to “on-line only” even though I need it and the meetings especially now more than I ever have before. My weight has made this whole injury thing even more complicated and I really can’t see things improving while I am so sedentary and while I am relying on everyone else to supply me with food.
Dh really is doing all he can. In fact he has been quite legendary since I’ve been home. He sets up the lounge room each night ready for me the next day with the TV left on stand-by, the remotes all put where I can reach them and most importantly, makes sure that the floors throughout the house are almost completely free of clutter. We are both terrified of what could happen if a crutch slipped on something that shouldn’t be there and went out from under me. He gets the bathroom ready for me to take a shower each night with the transfer bench half in and half out of the bath and everything where I can reach it. Then he puts on my socks and splints for me afterwards in the lounge. I get a coffee made for me in the morning before they leave and yesterday he left a ham and cheese sandwich in the fridge and the sandwich toaster out on the bench. I was so glad to find that when I got home from hydro!
As for the boys, the novelty has well and truly worn off. They are usually very put out when I ask them for anything or to do something for them because it takes them away from their all important computer games. And of course, their projects and activities must always come first. Eric was very impatient for me to get to the computer and help him fix a flyer he was making this evening and kept coming out to ask me when I’d be there despite the fact that I didn’t have my splints back on. The flyer was about him offering his services as a cross country coach for the the other kids at school but that’s another story!
My parents came to help out today but even that is a mixed blessing. While I truly love that our bathroom got cleaned and the sheets on my bed were changed I didn’t need to be told that I must not apply for any job until I am off crutches, that knitting is waste of money (again!) and that I really must do something about my weight. (If I didn’t already know the last one it was brought home to me when I had to crawl up our back stairs on the night of my fall!). I know they mean well and they are really the only ones that are in a position to offer us any help but some moral support and encouragement would be nice once in a while.
That is the end of my whining for now. There are some good things happening. Unlimited time to knit, stitch, read and watch TV. Time to read lots of stories to Daniel. I get to sleep in because there is nothing to get up for and I would be in the way during morning rush hour anyway. I have a couple of projects to tackle – writing and researching some pieces for the school magazine and doing the “end of season” achievement cards and certificates for Little Athletics. The latter is an enormous but tedious job but I certainly don’t have the excuse of not enough time to do it.
It’s awful to say this but I am dreading today (I’m writing this after midnight which shows how ell my sleeping pattern is going). I’m going to miss a couple of my regular Thursday activities, my ankles will still hurt and I will still have the long day on my own. But I guess I just have to take a deep breath and think “this too shall pass”.
Taking Positive Steps
Posted: October 19, 2010 Filed under: aqua aerobics, computer, cooking, Costochondritis, friends, gym, knitting, Prayer, Wii, working Leave a comment »I’m back at work tomorrow and still feeling a bit fragile. However I’ve done my first group fitness class in years this afternoon – aqua aerobics and lived to tell the tale so it doesn’t appear that I am going to break any time soon.
I saw my wonderful GP yesterday expected her to to be buried under a mountain of paper work from both hospitals. She had heard from neither! After some discussion and pushing on my poor sore chest I was diagnosed with Costochondritis - Tietze’s Syndrome which is described below:
Plan A and Plan B
Posted: March 14, 2010 Filed under: Contours, Daniel, Eric, exercise, friends, knitting, Little Athletics, relief teaching, working 1 Comment »As I write this the working week stretches out in front of me as a blank slate. I have no days of work lined up as yet and I don’t really know what will be happening. However I have to plan a few days in advance so that I get things done and I stay in touch with people or else I can end up at home doing not much at all.
So, Plan A for tomorrow is working if I get a call in the morning. Plan B is taking the boys to school, helping in Eric’s classroom and then making an appearance at the gym hopefully not causing any heart attacks amongst the staff seeing as how they haven’t seen me for so long. I also predict some ironing and “finishing” work on two different knitting projects. I’d like to get dinner done ahead of time because Dan is having a swimming lesson but I’ll have to see what is happening. I’ve also got two after school “coffee dates” organised with colleagues during the week and book club on Friday night for which I gave myself a night off from Little Athletics.
(Just as side note, there is another good reason for not appearing at Little Athletics on Friday night. Master 6 disgraced himself yesterday afternoon by “mooning” the Under 7 girls while they were together waiting for an event. Maybe a night off will give people more time to forget! It is Centre Championship weekend so I will be there on Saturday afternoon anyway. We have laughed a lot at D’s antics but there have also been some stern words about what is acceptable in mixed (or any) company!
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If I don’t work on the other days I’m going to go around and deliver some more “relief teacher” letters to local schools. I’m also searching the job sites each day for any new prospects because I’d much rather have weeks that are planned to be full of action rather than facing the great unknown every Sunday night.
2009 – The Year That Was
Posted: December 27, 2009 Filed under: blessings, Daniel, Eric, finances, Food, friends, goals, health, holidays, home making, knitting, Life Lessons, organising, procrastination, Uncategorized, Weight Watchers, working 4 Comments »I’ve borrowed this idea from the wonderful Ms Fifikins even though I haven’t forgiven her for forgetting certain house guests in her review of 2009!
I think the word for this year is different. And I’m hoping that 2010 will be different in a bigger and better way.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Did a family farm stay in June, resigned from my job in July and visited Cairns for a week in November
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
It was probably something to do with losing weight in which case it hasn’t happened
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My sister Trish had Luke Robert on January 28
Lorraine gave birth to beautiful Mabel who has the best reasoning behind her name!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
I wasn’t really close but Mum’s brother Leo died in July and my cousin’s husband Fintan tragically was struck down by Swine Flu while working in Vietnam and died in September.
5. What countries/states did you visit?
Cairns, Gold Coast
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
a well balanced lifestyle
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July – resigning
November – going to Cairns
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Learning to knit well
9. What was your biggest failure?
Weight loss and general organization
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Some ongoing anxiety and depression, high blood pressure
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Knitting stuff
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My workmates at school who were so supportive of my decision to resign even though it was heart breaking
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
The people in the news for hurting others
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and debt
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Knitting. I don’t sound very exciting do I?
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Can’t think of anything right now
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:?
a) happier or sadder?
sadder
b)thinner or fatter?
fatter
c) richer or poorer?
poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
work – both paid and in the home
exercise
eating healthy food
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying.
Emotional Eating
Procrastinating
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the family at SIL’s place
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
stayed in love with my boys
22. How many one-night stands?
None! I’ve told you I’m not that exciting LOL!
23. What was your favourite TV program?
All Saints and I’m sad it is finished. Watched lots of episodes of Cold Case and Without A Trace
24. Did you make a friend with anyone that you didn’t know this time last year?
I have knitting friends!
25. What was the best book you read?
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrsen
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The fact that Eric can play the piano
27. What did you want and get?
Time to knit and cross stitch
28. What did you want and not get?
A new job
29. What was your favourite film of this year?
Julie and Julia
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
39. Can’t remember. Already worrying about the next one!
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting stuff done
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Comfortable
33. What kept you sane?
Knitting
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Obama!
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Global warming
36. Who did you miss?
Friends who live too far away…
37. Who was the best new person you met?
MIML – except that he isn’t the “man in my life” but Fiona’s however MIML is his Internet persona
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
Everything happens for a reason
The Little Things Add Up
Posted: August 14, 2009 Filed under: blogging, company girls, cross stitch, friends, teaching 4 Comments »
I’ve got a lot of blogs in my Google Reader – probably more than I should try and keep up with but I sit down and read a bit at a time and I really enjoy keeping up with my fellow bloggers. I have my blog organised into categories -
Cross Stitch blogs – some very talented stitchers I’ve come across who show off their work and inspire me to keep on stitching
Friend Blogs – people that I’ve met on-line and known for years and in a couple of cases have met in real life as well
Homemaking blogs – there’s a wide variety in this category from organizational to decorating to spiritual and almost everything in between. Some of these I keep reading so I can see what people’s kids have been up to because they tell such wonderful stories.
GTD blogs – these are based largely on the theory of Getting Things Done which is based on a book of the same name by David Allen. I could also refere to this category as “personal development blogs”
Teacher Blogs – a wide range of blogs from fellow educators.
One blog that I’ve come across fairly recently is called Home Sanctuary by Rachel Anne Ridge. She focuses on the little things you can do to make you home better. She’s not about long lists of jobs to do or complicated schedules to work out – just the little things one can do to make a difference. Rachel regularly issues challenges to her readers and even allocates points to tasks in case you want to keep a tally. She calls the people who join in her challenges and blog about them Company Girls.
I’ve had a lot of “little things” done for me in the past few weeks that have made a big difference. People have rung me, written e-mails and in one case a handwritten letter. One of my neighbours has had my boys plays with her boys at her house a couple of times. Our former cleaning ladies offered to do 2 hours for free so that I could get back on track. And many of my colleagues at school have offered to “keep an eye on” the boys. In fact the boys had better not do anything naughty at school because there is a large number of people watching.
So I’ve decided to be a “Company Girl” as well and join in Rachel Anne’s challenges whenever I can. Her last challenge was to make a connection with some by letter, e-mail or phone call. I’m too late for points (but it isn’t about the points for me) however I’ve answered 3 or 4 e-mails from people that were sitting in my in-box and I’ve starting making plans via e-mail for lunch with a former workmate. The social connections are just what I need at the moment because I am a bit lonely now that I’m not working.
I’m not going to get this whole house organised and every running smoothly in one week or even one month but if I keep doing the little things they will all add up.
