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The biggest event today was to take Benny for a haircut.  I waited in Border’s, had a piece of carrot cake and listened to the twilight audiobook and knitted for 3 hours.  Managed to finish Tido’s long overdue sweater.  This one was a quick knit with a worsted yarn.  I free-hand it and knitted it from the bottom up.  Surprisingly, it fits when I sawed the sides together and tried it on him.  I’m pretty happy,

ps. Ran into image upload problem for WordPress, but finally I figured it out and fixed it in the settings.  Yeah!!

Yeah, I will never get anything done if I keep looking for the app that will be the system for my GTD.  Man, so many of them out there.  

Remember the Milk  ttp://www.rememberthemilk.com

Nozbe http://www.nozbe.com/

Omnifocus http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/

GTDTiddlyWiki http://nathanbowers.com/gtdtw/index.html

MonkeyGTD http://monkeygtd.tiddlyspot.com

They are all gems on their own.  Some free, some expensive, some small, some on multi platforms.  I’m narrowing down my selections.  But there are so much out there, it’s addictive to go from links to links to links trying to catch up on all of them.

Lifehacker and 43folders are two sites I really like.  But there are so many other good ones out there.  I’m trying to catch them into my evernotes and organize them there.  It will be my online reference material deposit box.  I’m thinking about using RTM because it’s free and see how that fares out.  The dilemma is you don’t want to start using one system and have to convert everything to another.  So I’m trying to find the one that best suits me.  I like the electronic ones better because it’s easier to enter the tasks at one place and populate it all over the place.  But there are those times when written notes are best so I’ll need the paper system too.  decisions, decisions…

I think the reality of the hysterectomy is slowly sinking into the consciousness.  Wednesday was a blank, I heard the news but it wasn’t me we were talking about.  Yesterday, I didn’t give it any conscious thought either, just letting it sit in the background.  Today, it’s coming back and I am starting to give its existence a chance to survive.  So to speak.  I called the doctor’s office to see how soon I should let them know.  It was probably a good idea, the person was trying to blow me off by saying the doctor is out of the country till April 1st.  Not what the doctor was telling me.  She changed her story when I told her my talk with the doctor herself.  But I should call Monday to get in the queue though, so the day won’t fill up on me.  Only one day left this month.  She is only operating on Thursdays and the one before the last week is already filled.

I guess these major surgery brings the mortality to the foreground.  I thought I should at least give it some time.  Funny that I just started getting back to the GTD system.  I guess if I think there are still a lot of things to be done yet, I’m not really thinking about the mortality seriously.  Or maybe I am because I suddenly realized that there is limited time left.  Who knows.  

Starting to think about things I can do in the recovery period.  Books, knitting projects, blogging, ….  And also funny that P P just got back to me about the employment opportunity at the university after being silent for weeks.   It’s a good news and one of the things that will make my day fuller and more structured.   

I’m at the library now.  Time has changed and the library is catching up.  I still remember being scolded at before when I had the notebook plugged into an outlet years ago.  Now that have stations setup for laptop plugins and even a private room for people to use.  Technology has certainly creep into the daily life for the general mass.

Found a book “101 Best Home-based Businesses for Women”.  hmmm.  posibilities..

Talked to Tim and Esther today about the student record project.  It turned out to be much easier than I thought.  So tonight I simplified the forms and queries to do what they wanted.  I think it’s ready to be test driven now.

Also uploaded the newsletters to the web site.  With Rodney’s help, they should be viewable soon.

Had a lesson with Minas.  I still can’t do the backwards spin to a half split.  The more we tried, the worse I got.  sigh.  But it was fun to work with Tim on the new routine. 

Couple of days without dancing coming up.   Want to decide on my next knitting project now.  I made the list for the Meg Swanson’s Knitting Camp in July.  That’s kind of exciting.

Wow, it’s been a long time since I put anything here.  Life has been busy.  Connie is well on her way to recovery and getting better all the time.  I competed at Ohio Star Ball and the Yuletide Ball.  Did reasonably well.  Knitted a sweater for Leo which became mine because of a major mistake.  Trying to play with making movies for dancing, taking pictures, and doing things for the studio.

So, I’ve been busy and have neglected my own website and my blog.  Leo mentioned the renewal of the site name coming up and that reminded me to come back and look at things again. 

Thinking about going back to do some part time work to pay for the dance lessons and the knitting materials.  The cost is so high I don’t know any one with moderate income can afford taking the necessary lessons to get better.   Had lunch with Peter to explore the employment possibilities and he told me that it costs almost nothing for his guitar lessons with a Flamengo teacher.   Both are dancing and one costs more than a job can afford and the other almost nothing.  Wondering what justifies this huge difference.  Oh well.

I have been busy and always on to something interesting and challenging since I quit my job, so it’s not that I am getting bored sitting at home.  But the economic issue is threatening the continuation of the things I love to do.  So I have to think of some ways to support the expensive hobbies.  sigh.

Needle: size 5 circular

gauge: 4.5 stitches to the inch

yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in chocolate lot # 34650 100% Peruvian Highland Wool
hand wash, dry flat, 25 balls 110 yards/ 50 grams

Pattern: Elizabeth Yoke Sweather (Megan’s DVD)

From Knitting

Well, after I woke up this morning and finally gained some sense of consciousness, I remembered this is one of the birthdays.  I feel better about the day just having the thought of it.  We all like to feel special in some way and birthdays certainly put you there in a hurry.  Just like the wedding day for the bride, she gets to be the pincess for a day and everybody’s attention is on her and everybody brings good tidings and get dressed up just for her day. 

Now if we can feel just as special everyday instead of just one day a year or a few times in our lives.  And why not?  Do we like to put ourselves down normally and only feel justified to feel special on our birthdays?  We obvoiusly don’t need to.  But it does help when someone close to you makes you feel special all the time.  After listening to Irina’s torment about her relationship and the tears in her voice, I felt so lucky to have someone in my life now that adds to it with positives instead of negatives.  I know just exactly how she feels because I have been there.  And it is just like living in hell when you live with someone being very critical of you.  The origin is most likely not the victim but the aggressor.  There is something in their lives that are making them unhappy and they take it out on the one that’s closest to them.  It’s the greatest sin I think we can commit in our lives — to create a hell for the ones that’s closest to us.

So here I am in this stage of my life where I constatnly am thankful for the person in my life that only enhances the positives and my life is so much happier and easier.  I am the happiest right now thanks to him.  I wish every woman finds someone like him in her life.  

I am encouraged to pursue the things that I like to do.  So I’m buried under knitting projects, playing with the latest gadgets, learning more about technology and making plans for the next thing that expands my creativity and imagination.   And also I can extend myself to others that need some help and bring some sunshine into their lives.  I found that the kind acts make me happy and they agree with something deep inside as if it is something I am called to do.  Strange, sometimes it takes an outsider to bring the comfort a close one cannot provide no matter how great the actions and intentions they are.  Maybe we have this built in emotions that turn off the appreciation for the kindness our family shows us but appreciate what an outsider brings.  Or do we have higher expectations for our family members.  Or as family members they tend to be more harsh in their approach for a good intention and have less patience.  I don’t know the answer or maybe it’s all of those speculations.  Maybe that’s the lesson we are all given to learn as the recipient or as the giver.

I am extending all the good wishes to Connie and I am also thinking of mom and all my family.   I am encircling the light of healing and protection around every one of them.  I wish every one of them well each and every day so they all live in grace.

I have not stepped out of the house except for dinner last night for 2 and a half days now.  I have been busy and yet I feel restless.  There are lots of projects in my mind and I can only tackle a couple a day and feel like I’m never going to get anywhere.  Organize and plan is the theme of the game.  

There are knitting projects, sweater for Leo, wrist warmers as Xmas presents, my pi shawl.  There are book reading for entertainment (on audible and Kindle), there are spiritual pursuits from reading and practice and note taking.  There are web apps to write for LDC.  Then there is sorting and organizing of the stuff in the basement and around the house.  I have lots to write about in this blog, I have pictures i like to take and upload and organize.  There are gadgets to look at to do things more efficiently.  There is also never ending house cleaning and laundry and meal preps.  I feel like an aimless traveler through life not knowing where to go next.

So first thing first, I need to mindmap everything in my head and start to tackle and plan and organize and fine tune them.  Who said it’s boring after retiring!!