the chance to share your to do list, aka the list that demonstrates what it is like to try to kayak upstream…near impossible!
This blog keeps me accountable and since I’m really struggling to get everything done this week (all this needs to be done by next Friday 17th) I need to post it to motivate myself because I’m feeling every so slightly overwhelmed!
- Take friend to hospital & wait while she has surgery (Fri 10 July)
- Find University transcripts
- Send transcripts to admissions office re teacher training
- Apply for job I’ve been headhunted for – *decided not to!*
- Apply for second job (back – up) -*decided not to*
- Apply for second teaching course *no spaces*
- Send parcel to old employer with materials I’m finished with
- Finish freelance project 2 (about 10 hrs left)
- Finish freelance project 3 (about 15 hrs left)
- Email questions re freelance project 2
- Email questions re freelance project 3
- Get insurance (for business)
- Send hours/time sheet for freelance project 1
- Plan rough itinerary re trip & send out email to friends with dates
- Book trip
- Book train tickets to get to & from airport in UK
- Fill out paperwork for passport renewal
- Go to London & get passport renewed
- Visitors from Australia – 10th-13th July
- Take stray cat to vet to check if she/he has microchip
- Buy more cat food for stray cat
- Dr’s appt (14th)
- Car servicing (17th)
- Prepare goodbye card/cake/gift for leaders leaving youth group (13th)
- Send out emails to find out numbers for youth group in September
- Send out emails re meeting for other volunteer role (helping vulnerable adults)
- Send report to committee re end of year report
- Pay VISA bill in full
- Pay Mastercard bill in full
- Find someone to cover monthly volunteer coffee session I run
- Send Birthday parcel to honorary nieces in USA
- Buy/wrap gifts for my mum’s birthday
- Send thank you cards to references
- Send birthday card to friend in France
- Take books back to library
- Complete homework for session 3 & 4 in certificate in theology
- Attend theology class (16th July)
- Prepare to teach Bible Study on fear (15th July)
- Prep for last youth group (13th July)
- Email reminders out for volunteer helpers (10th July)
- Email reminders out for volunteer helpers (16th July)
- Finish making petticoat for friend’s baby’s 1st Birthday (I’m seriously stuggling and yet determined!)
- Send invoicing in for freelance project 2
- Send invoicing in for freelance project 3
- Get Canadian money ordered (by 17th)
- Make rota for helpers (volunteer role) and send out
- Print & give out rotas
- Write to BT re their yet again not reimbursing me for wrong charges
- Send apologies to book club
- Call friend Jane with info she needs from me
- Get flatmate Sainsbury’s and Tesco vouchers to help her out financially
- Donate blood
- Rejoin gym (I’ve got 1 month to tone up for my trip!)
- Fill up with petrol (if I don’t write it down, I’m going to run out!)
- Do something with the hundreds of cherries I brought (they were on sale for 75% off!) before they go off!
Plus the usual – responding to work & personal emails, grocery shopping, meal prep, cleaning, get my mum’s weekly groceries, attend meetings etc.
Remember how I said I was ever so slightly overwhelmed!
:0)
That’s quite a list. Good luck!
By: Rinelle on July 10, 2009
at 5:49 am
Thanks Rinelle, I’m um well quite behind!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 8:16 am
busy! you will have earned your holiday four times over by the time you get to take it!!
i don’t know about you but sometimes – sometimes – i like to be that crazy-busy and flying from one project to another to another with six others in between. it sort of makes me feel even more alive – provided it’s not a period that lasts so long i start to feel drained and exhausted. also the rest period that usually comes after such a busy time is particularly sweet…
i hope you manage to get it all done – remember to take time for you, even just half an hour; and remember to ask for help if you need to!
xx
By: rachel on July 10, 2009
at 7:20 am
Rachel, I agree re more alive, so very true! Thanks for the reminder!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 8:16 am
sometimes people underestimate the amount of work being freelance takes! don’t overload yerself!! take it in small bites!
By: mo on July 10, 2009
at 8:07 am
I think I did actually Mo, completely underestimate!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 8:17 am
You forgot one – BREATHE!
By: Kris on July 10, 2009
at 12:35 pm
I needed that, thank you!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 8:17 am
Whew!! What a list. I thought I was busy! Hope you get it all done and that your friend comes throught the op OK.
By: Teresa on July 10, 2009
at 2:07 pm
She seems to be doing well, thanks Teresa!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 8:18 am
Where bouts in Canada you going?
By: Sarah on July 10, 2009
at 4:42 pm
Sarah, must email you but basically east coast!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 8:18 am
I thought you said you simplified your life????
Have a wonderful time on your trip and a great weekend!
By: MoneyFunk on July 10, 2009
at 8:16 pm
It truly doesn’t feel simple at the moment!!!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 9:05 am
Wow! that is some list! good luck on getting it accomplished.
By: sonrie on July 10, 2009
at 9:39 pm
Hope you manage to get through it all! Have a great trip
By: shoestringalley on July 11, 2009
at 11:32 am
Thanks shoestring, right now it is the last thing on my mind!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 9:05 am
Gosh! That is such a long list! I hope that you get as much as possible done. Try not to get stressed and take some time out for yourself every day.
Hope that you have a fantastic holiday at the end of it all. You deserve it!
Roz
By: Roz on July 11, 2009
at 11:56 am
Thanks Roz
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 9:05 am
Good luck with getting all of that done, and enjoy your trip when you’re done – you deserve it!
By: Jenn on July 12, 2009
at 4:35 am
Thanks Kenn!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 9:05 am
Thanks Jenn!
By: Frugal Trenches on July 14, 2009
at 9:05 am
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at 7:27 am