What significant things have I done today?

[Sibling DavidH]

[Griffin NoName]

I hope it arrives.

[Griffin NoName]

Chucked out some cupborad/shelve contents, threw out a bin bag of them. Shifted artcles needing storing into gap provided. Since this has hadly made a dent in the mess on the floors, surfaces, bed, the signifcance is merely in making a start. My sense of achievement is greatly exaggerated.

[pieces o nine]

I power-napped.

It was great!

[Sibling DavidH]

My sense of achievement is greatly exaggerated.

Don't knock yourself, Griffin!  You did some useful things and you deserve to feel good about it.  OK, there's more to do, that doesn't lessen what you've done.

On Saturday we found that a garden shed had a leak in the roof.  Just what I needed when my ME was pretty bad!  A quick look revealed that the only proper cure was to strip all the felt off and start again.  Well, it was pleasantly sunny and if I'd left it it would have been hanging over me, so I did the whole job properly.  Two hours of unpleasant exhaustion and an evening of quite nasty pain in my limbs - but what a sense of achievement!  I went upstairs to change and looked down on a really neat roof: satisfaction!

Of course there are a million jobs I do put off and this one kind of forced itself on me, so I'm not boasting about my resolution.  Just saying what it did for my morale.

[Griffin NoName]

Well with ME you have succeeded magnificently, i only hope it is not boom and bust.

During the night I threw out a folder full of old redundant notes and freed up a small space in another cupboard by moving another boxfolder into the space left by the one I chucked out. This clearing up the rooms is all about shifting rubbish to make room to store stuff laying around on the floor in order to recalaim the footpaths. At present I am hanging my clothes up on the floor which is getting more difficult as floorspace receeds. it's like a shunting system. Of course, it would be easier to move to a bigger home, but finance precludes it.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Each bit is a step.


Finished my UC application and an essay.

[Lindorm]

What Scriblerus said. Each little step helps!
Rome wasn't burnt in a day, you know!

[Opsa]

I've been pushing for a community theater for my area for about a decade. I knew that sooner or later it would be up to me to make it happen.

Just before the start of this year I finally got an offer of some space at an old schoolhouse. The first part of the year we worked on developing the space. In the summer we held youth acting workshops (which Qwerty helped teach).  This fall we've been rehearsing our first show, "Heidi", which opens tonight. It is just a little show with amateur actors and what scenery and costumes we could make or dig up from attics and thrift stores, but it's a dream a long time in the making that is coming true this evening, so I am excited and happy.

Now the trick will be keeping it up!

[Sibling DavidH]

Good luck, Opsa!  The first fruit of all that work. 

[Aggie]

Bravo, Ops!  Break a leg!

[pieces o nine]

[Swatopluk]

Checked that the absence assistant and forwarding function on my agency mail work properly.
Otherwise there could be some nasty surprises for I will not return before 10th January.
Vacation

[Lindorm]

Great job, Opsa!
And congrautulations on the vacation, Swato? Do you have anything special planned, or are you just going to take it easy, drink tea and write cthuloid christmas carols?

[Swatopluk]

The latter is on the menu definitely.
I also intend to do extensive museum visits on weekdays when the crowding is not that bad.
Also there are about a 1000 DVDs still to watch (the stack growing daily).
I also should start with my Icelandic lessons.
Maybe the day will come that I can do some chtulhufications in Icelandic