To followup on my previous post about anti-procrastination week (which, indeed, turned out better than having an anti-procrastination day, because I needed to dose these things), I did get some things done:

  • -call GP for bloodtest (vitamins, food-allergies, regular check)-
  • call rheumy for more MTX (I called and rheumy would call back, but didn’t; so even though I did it, I’ll still have to do it again… meh)
  • -call surgeon’s office for bi-annual post-cancer check-up-
  • call physiotherapist to set up initial appointment
  • -arrange the christmas name-drawing thing-
  • clear out the rest of the table (*did a little, but table not cleared yet*)
  • tackle mount Washmore (*did do a wash / dry but no fold*)
  • fill out the post-gastrectomy questionnaire (optional, though they did send it to me twice)
  • see if I want to do that The National Cervical Screening Programme (not doing it now, maybe in a month or so)
  • see if I can squeeze in six more parts for nanowrimo
  • make a nanowrimo soundtrack (*partially done*)

Things I did, important ones, that I didn’t put on the list but should have:

  • took out garbage (not the regular, the rubbish for cleaning table and other areas in house)
  • mailed a few important documents
  • made several nice meals

I feel pretty good about these lists. Even though it seems I didn’t get that much done, I did do stuff. And I did them despite having two really lousy days where I had to send the dog over to stay elsewhere for a night. I should focus more on the things I did get done, and not so much on the ones I didn’t…

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I thought about having an anti-procrastination day tomorrow, but seeing my huge list of things I really need to do, I decided on a anti-procrastination week. In the following week, I will do as many thing as possible from the following list:

  • call GP for bloodtest (vitamins, food-allergies, regular check)
  • call rheumy for more MTX
  • call surgeon’s office for bi-annual post-cancer check-up
  • call physiotherapist to set up initial appointment
  • arrange the christmas name-drawing thing
  • clear out the rest of the table
  • tackle mount Washmore
  • fill out the post-gastrectomy questionnaire (optional, though they did send it to me twice)
  • see if I want to do that The National Cervical Screening Programme (also two reminders, and also optional)
  • see if I can squeeze in six more parts for nanowrimo
  • make a nanowrimo soundtrack
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A little while ago I did some research and discovered I could save a lot of money (at least for the first year) if I switched electricity providers.

With the way the thing is set up, I’d still be stuck with the same basic provider (they own the pipes), but I can choose a different end provider.

So I happily switched from company X to company Y and all went well.

And today I received a call from company X, asking if I had time for some questions. As I love to see how these conversations go, I said yes. Continue Reading »

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Lately I have spent a lot of time de-cluttering (not done yet, it takes a long time to get rid of years worth of junk). It feel very liberating to throw out old stuff, stuff I don’t even like or just keep out of guilt. It not only clears space, but also my head. It makes me very happy.

To help me and keep me motivated, I’ve started reading blogs about getting rid of clutter basically. I found a good list of tips over at ‘Simple. Organized. Life.’ As a recovering pack-rat I found the first two most helpful.

1. Have a place for everything – this means your keys, your wallet, your office supplies, etc.

and

2. When you bring one thing home, try to send at least one thing out the door.

Having a place for everything (well, not yet, but getting there) helps me not having to search for an item. Tossing out something when I bring in something new helps me to not cling onto older items just for the sake of clinging on.

I’ve started feeling much calmer with less clutter around me. A lot less stress.

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Best gift ever.I don’t do anything for Valentines Day. If I feel the need to do something special, I just do it, I don’t wait until that one day per year. Boyfriend and I joked about it and he spent most of the day on his knees with another guy, getting all hot and sweaty while filming it.

Anyway, after he finished that and cleaned up the mess, he gave me a gift. My very own cordless screwdriver! Guess who’ll put her Ikea-things together with it from now on. :D

For those of you who consider this very unromantic, too bad! I love it! Had he brought me a bunch of roses I’d have smacked him on the head with it. Pretty painful with those thorns and such.

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before&afterI have this habit to stuff things in my cabinets and forget about them. Hidden behind the doors I don’t see it, so I don’t think about it, or so I hope. But it never works like that.
So, today I took an hour or so to declutter my two cabinets in the livingroom. I still have one left (my ‘computercentre’ basically), and feel very good about the progress I made today. The photo shows the before on top and the after at the bottom. I made a few paperwork-stacks that need to migrate to my file-cabinet, a task to big for this evening. I’ll take another hour (or two or three) or so later this week to do it.

I put some drawingsupplies in the cabinet on the left (top-right), and consider putting my yarn and crochet things there too. I crochet in the livingroom, not in my hobby/bedroom (aka ‘the funroom’ ;) )

I tossed out one full garbagebag.

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I couldn’t help myself, I redesigned the site. I like the previous design but it looked too messy. I had trouble reading stuff and finding stuff, and I designed the whole thing. mmm purple

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Painting
Getting back on my feet from my little RA-blow takes a bit longer than expected. I have received medication that works (fabulously) and all seemed to go well again, until this itsy bitsy thing with a low amount of white blood-cells popped up, which made the doctors stop the medication. My white count went up again, so last week I restarted treatment, yaay.

I have not completely abandoned my creative projects either, I have made some nice photos and I started the painting in the picture (stuck with it now, though). I also have bought a sewing machine and managed to sew up a skirt, a dress and a top. It just goes a bit slow.

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In October 2006 my new doctor told me I had rheumatoid arthritis. I had experienced frequent pains in my hands and my feet in the months before and my lung-specialist referred me to a rheumatologist. I have since said good-bye to the lung-specialist, not my lungs but my stomach has caused the ongoing cough which made me visit him.
I have not yet said good-bye to the rheumatologist and I most likely will not for a long time.

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Raah! I need to make more buttons…

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