Thursday Thirteen Discombobulated Thoughts

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Just how do you get all those bubbles and dust specks out from under the screen protector for your iPhone?
Evernote is the best thing a scatterbrained, disorganized, right-brained person could ever discover. I have begun compiling all of my scattered here and there notes, bookmarked articles, scribbled thoughts, etc. all in one place. I love that I can take a photo of a recipe card or scan in a magazine article or clip a couple of paragraphs from a web page and assemble them all in a virtual “notebook”. I love that I can have a notebook for recipes and one for crafty things and household tips and one for productivity tips and one for stuff I want for the house (ie paint colors, renovation ideas, furniture, decorating ideas, etc.) and so on. And the notebooks aren’t stacked all over end tables and stuffed in cubbies in my messy house. They are stored neatly on Evernote. It fulfills my efforts to follow Allen’s GTD methods as well as Felton’s Messies Anonymous philosophies.
I actually rented a a dumpster to aid in cleaning out my house. They dropped it off the Friday before Labor Day. I filled it up the first weekend just cleaning out my garage. I’m not sure I’m proud or ashamed. They’ve taken that one away and brought me another, but the second weekend — last weekend — I was paralyzed by migraine pain. I had my to do list including cleaning out the basement but I was unable to move as it was one of the worst migraines I’ve had in a long time. Now I’m a weekend behind. Still, I consider this expence as therapy money, just like going to the shrink. If the dumpster wasn’t there, the garage would have gone another year collecting more junk and trash, now it’s empty and beautiful.
I had to buy a new car. My beloved ’95 Jeep Cherokee Sport did not pass the State Inspection and I learned about it 3 days after Cash for Clunkers ended. Really, I didn’t want another Make and Model and Jeep stopped making them in 2001. So, I’ve purchased a new-to-me 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport. My old one was a green two door with positronic wheel thingys to handle the Mississippi mud (not so good in the Maine snow) and this one is a silver 4 door with 4 wheel drive which is much better suited to the Winter Weather.
I realized when I turned my beloved ’95 in that I had loved it to death. For the first 9 years, I only put about 9,000 miles per year on it because I walked to work for 6 of those years and two of those years work was less than 4 or 5 miles away. However, for some reason, in the last 5 years, since arriving in Maine, I put 28,000 miles per year on that Jeep. I can’t figure out how. I took maybe two trips to Boston in 5 years and I put about 9,500 on it per year for work. I’m not a social butterfly and for the most part, I usually just go to work and home. Still some how, the Jeep went from 70,000 miles leaving New Orleans to 210,000 when I handed over the keys in 5 short years.
I really have been trying to stay away from talking about politics, but I really am tired of how disrespectful the public, the media, and politians have become of the President of the United States. I won’t even read a political blog if the blogger calls the President some ridiculous nickname — I had that personal rule during the last administration too. I respect your right to dislike the person who holds the position; I even respect your right to disapprove of the job he or she is doing while sitting in the Oval Office, but whether you agree or not, he or she earned the right to be there for these 4 years and a certain amount of respect goes with the job. If you want the world to respect the U.S., you better treat the symbol of the U.S. with the respect you want the world to see us as worthy of.
Just because they make it in your size does not mean you should wear it. No one wants to see your belly hanging out under a cropped top over the waist line of your low rise jeans. No one but a pedophile wants to see “Hot Stuff” written in spandex on a five year old’s butt. No one wants to see you at Wal-mart in the middle of the day in your jammies and slippers either.
Remember when people used to dress up to go to Sunday School, Church, the Theater, brunch, high tea, ride an airplane? That’s why it was called Sunday Best. Every year I got two new dresses — one for Easter and one for Christmas. It breaks my heart to see people at Church or the Theater (like musicals and Broadway) in blue jeans, tennis shoes, and t-shirts. It seems so disrespectful. I suppose God doesn’t care how you look when you visit, but I always thought that God dropping in on me was one thing and dropping in on God was something reverent.
Did I mention there’s an Evernote App for the iPhone? How cool is that?
Actually the coolest iPhone App has been the one that allows me to take a photo of a check to deposit it in my checking account. How cool is that?!
I’ve broken down and ordered Dr. McDougall’s book on weight loss and two of his cookbooks.
I left my lunch sitting on the counter at home today. That is not the way to save money.
I don’t know why the office announces they are going to hold off handing out raises (of which no one is getting more than 2%) until January as opposed to the usual October, plus health insurance is going up 3%, and then they hand out the United Way campaign packets. Then for the next few weeks we’ll receive harrassing e-mails about our lack of participation. I always feel more like participating when I don’t feel like I’m somehow taking a pay cut. Didn’t someone just say the recession was over?

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