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From: "Anna/Del Bristol" <>
Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Fw: Time waits for no one
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:19:49 -0500
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My sisters call me the Whirling Dervish!
Anna
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From: "Lynn Vondran AT&T" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Fw: Time waits for no one


> Hi Norma the elder and list,
> I tried that list thingy, and it didn't work for me. But...
> What did work was earning my time on the computer. Four hours of work, to
> two hours of computer time...mind you, that changes when there is bigtime
> yard work. I don't know how to stop when I get out into my yard and
> gardens. Time just flys by and also when shoveling snow...before I know
it,
> I've gone out at 6AM and it's 1PM...don't know how it happens, but it
does,
> and then I pay for it with pain in the arms and hands. But, I love it!!!!
> Not the pain, but the outdoors!!!! I watch very little TV, so my TV time
is
> also spent on the computer doing family research or enjoying my PADutch
> family on the list. Some people think I'm on the computer all day long,
but
> I'm not...it just seems that way because I earn my time, and it comes in
> spirts.
> Hope you have success with making a list, then checking it twice....to see
> if you've done everything.
> Oh yes, one more thing. While I'm on the computer, that is also laundry
> time, so I'm really on and off the computer a whole lot during the day,
but
> get so many more things done, since I have this little piece of metal in
> front of me. I've learned to rest...instead of running full speed ahead
18
> hours a day...my husband said that I needed to learn to rest.
> Happy task list making!
> Lynn
>
> Norma the elder wrote:
> > Dear Group
> > The days go by so fast and each day I look back and see where I have
> > wasted hours in the day. I've got to get a system going again like I use
> > to, make a daily goal list, nothing elaborate mind you, and post it on
my
> > office door. When I have completed the list then and only then I'll
allow
> > myself to go on the computer, e-mail, genealogy etc. Or maybe if half of
> > the list is done, I could say take about an hour and sit at the
computer,
> > then go back to my list. Or watch my British programs they come on a
> > public station at 12:30 PM till 1:30PM, that would work. Now all I have
> > to do is make up a practical list of things I need done for today and go
> > to it.
> > Happy Columbus Day........Norma the elder.
>
>
>

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