Ah, the frustration of trying to get all the variables to work together. Facebook privacy settings, WordPress post settings and the status updater settings all need to be set properly for the posts to show up.
It’s like trying to get three children to share a toy fairly. Maybe this one will go how and where I want it.
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We have installed a plugin to push blog posts out to facebook. You should now see any new blog posts right on your facebook page. The wonders of technology.
I am constantly amazed at the changes that the past ten years have made.
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I expected to have so much more time for doing stuff once I no longer had to spend most of my day at work or school. What a fantasy! I actually seem to have less time now than ever before in my life.
What happened to the days? They’ve gotten so short. I start out about 8 am and usually stop for dinner around 6 or 7 pm. That’s about ten hours a day. I should be accomplishing every task on my list. There really aren’t that many.
O-o-o-h…shiny…look, squirrel…gets me every day. I never realized just how short my attention span could be or how easily I could be distracted. I think the only way I’ll ever be able to build structure into my day is to set reminders to beep me ever hour…”Are you on task? Get back to the schedule now!”
This problem is a the feature of the modern world. In the fifties, when I was growing up, we had no cell phones, internet nor video game systems.
Television had three networks, plus a few independent stations. As I remember there were only four or five stations total that were strong enough for us to pick up here. Two from Evansville and two or three from Nashville, depending on how much traffic the CBs were putting out. It frequently interfered with one of the Nashville stations.
There were two radio stations in town and we picked up WSM from Nashville. However, listening to the radio didn’t interfere with other tasks. You could do both at once and we usually did. I guess that was the beginning of multi-tasking.
We had two theaters with one screen each and two drive-ins, also with one screen each. That gave us four movies to choose from each weekend, although that might include double features and short subjects like newsreels and cartoons.
We picked up books to read from the library and played board games or cowboys and Indians. In summer we went to the city park to play and swim or fish in the lakes. On Sundays, after church, Mama and Daddy would pile us all into the car and just go for a drive, usually out into the country, with no particular destination. Strangely enough, we didn’t realize there was nothing to do. We were too busy to notice.
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Along the way to trying to get some structure in my life without making a full time commitment, I’ve signed up for a couple of classes this fall, joined a study group and a CWF circle. The past week or so there’ve been to many distractions and I haven’t been able to follow the new schedule I made for myself, but it looks promising.
The key is to start over every day until I manage to make it a routine. After all my motto for years has been: “You haven’t really failed unless you stop trying.” I will keep trying until I get it done. Then I will make another commitment to lose the extra weight I’m carrying. I don’t want to try doing both at once. I remember when I was trying to stop smoking. All the experts said don’t try it when you are under too much stress or when things are in an upheaval.
Soon things should slow down again. Ashley is almost ungrounded. Chris will be getting off suspension in a week or so. Tracy’s problems are slowly working themselves out again. The weather is clearing up. Some sunshine and warm temperatures would go a long way to making me feel more like buckling down to work.
I am also working on a photography project to get myself motivated to shoot every day. A pictorial guide to Madisonville. I am deciding on categories, like schools one week, then churches, parks, historic buildings, and so forth. When I’ve made out the list, I’ll start getting numbers and addresses. I figure it should keep me busy for quite a while. More structure to my life.
I still need to find time for working on David’s website, redesigning the Madisonville Design site and studying Flash. It’s just a matter of setting priorities, then keeping to them.
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I spent a significant portion of my working life paying for medical insurance that I only used once a year to get a checkup. Before that I was on my husbands’ group policies and mostly only used them when I was pregnant. I’ve just not ever been a go-to-the-doctor type person. When I turned sixty-five and became eligible for medicare, the government required me to get some kind of prescription drug coverage and I decided to take out a policy that would also pay for checkups and so forth. I didn’t understand that it would replace my medicare.
I chose a major company that everyone should have accepted. Unfortunately, the policy I had was not one that everyone accepts. They only had one doctor here that I could go to. Even the local hospital wasn’t on their list. I was worse off than I would have been with no insurance because I was having to pay for something I couldn’t use even if I needed it. The way the rules are set up, I couldn’t change companies until the end of the year. That’s a crock. If I’m paying for something I should be able to change it whenever I want.
It took me from January until now to figure out how to cancel that policy (The deadline is March 31st, otherwise I’d be stuck with it for another year.) and get back on regular medicare with a prescription drug policy. Of course, I don’t use any prescription drugs, but I guess I have to admit there’s a possibility that may change some day. At least, the drug policy doesn’t cost quite as much and I can go to whatever doctor I want (as long as they take regular medicare). Oh well, maybe I’ll manage to die without ever getting sick first.
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