Synergizing my productivity
Apr. 27th, 2010 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseMonday morning Brian woke up with gastrointestinal ick. I've been taking care of him and hoping against hope I don't catch it myself. So far, so good. Fingers crossed.
Meantime, aside from the aforementioned caretaking, I did almost nothing productive yesterday. And much as I enjoy the occasional day that consists of nothing but lying around in bed, I start to feel grouchy after too much of it. So I decided that today would be better. And lo and behold, it has been:
--I got some housework done, including cleaning the kitchen and deadheading our rosebushes.
--I balanced our accounts and brought them up-to-date in our records.
--I went down to Sprawl-Mart and spent part of my first paycheck on stuff for my convertible. Specifically, a set of seat covers (because the fabric on the seats was getting worn), a matching steering wheel cover (because the leather on the steering wheel was wearing through), and a CD visor (because it was part of the box set and I figured it'd come in useful). So now my car has big purple flowers all over it. I just need something purple and vaguely flower-ish to hang from the rearview mirror...maybe I'll find a crystal or something next time I'm in Bisbee.
--Also, I bought new speakers, which I even managed to install myself! The system still sounds a bit tinny, which could be due to the deck being wired to the pre-amp-out instead of the regular output (checking that's next on the list), or just the fact that it's not a high-fidelity system, but it's much, much better than the Altoids-tin sound that the battered (and seventeen-year-old) stock speakers were putting out. Plus, the driver's side speaker no longer rattles when the bass fires! Go me.
--I made good on a debt to Adam and cleaned out his Subaru Baja, which hadn't happened in, oh...I think the two-and-a-half years since he left Alaska. It's a nice car, too, so it was rewarding to realize that again once I got all the caked-on crap off of his center console. Not to mention Resolve-ing the stains out of the carpet, vacuuming the whole thing, cleaning the windows/mirrors, and Armor-Alling the dashboard. I do good cleaning, if I do say so myself.
And now for the real challenge - can I actually write something tomorrow like I've planned? Stay tuned.
Meantime, aside from the aforementioned caretaking, I did almost nothing productive yesterday. And much as I enjoy the occasional day that consists of nothing but lying around in bed, I start to feel grouchy after too much of it. So I decided that today would be better. And lo and behold, it has been:
--I got some housework done, including cleaning the kitchen and deadheading our rosebushes.
--I balanced our accounts and brought them up-to-date in our records.
--I went down to Sprawl-Mart and spent part of my first paycheck on stuff for my convertible. Specifically, a set of seat covers (because the fabric on the seats was getting worn), a matching steering wheel cover (because the leather on the steering wheel was wearing through), and a CD visor (because it was part of the box set and I figured it'd come in useful). So now my car has big purple flowers all over it. I just need something purple and vaguely flower-ish to hang from the rearview mirror...maybe I'll find a crystal or something next time I'm in Bisbee.
--Also, I bought new speakers, which I even managed to install myself! The system still sounds a bit tinny, which could be due to the deck being wired to the pre-amp-out instead of the regular output (checking that's next on the list), or just the fact that it's not a high-fidelity system, but it's much, much better than the Altoids-tin sound that the battered (and seventeen-year-old) stock speakers were putting out. Plus, the driver's side speaker no longer rattles when the bass fires! Go me.
--I made good on a debt to Adam and cleaned out his Subaru Baja, which hadn't happened in, oh...I think the two-and-a-half years since he left Alaska. It's a nice car, too, so it was rewarding to realize that again once I got all the caked-on crap off of his center console. Not to mention Resolve-ing the stains out of the carpet, vacuuming the whole thing, cleaning the windows/mirrors, and Armor-Alling the dashboard. I do good cleaning, if I do say so myself.
And now for the real challenge - can I actually write something tomorrow like I've planned? Stay tuned.
