Imagine a pile of papers

[catsittingstill]

that periodically heaves and mutters to itself in a voice that sounds somewhat like mine.

I am working my way through the pile of papers in the office, trying to find and file everything I need to do the taxes, which not-incidentally is helped by filing everything else to get it out of the way.

I can't stand to do this for too long at any one time, generally (which has a lot to do with why the pile is as high as it is, actually) so I talk myself into it by setting a kitchen timer for half an hour and setting it on a shelf in the office.

I sort until the timer goes off and then--and this is a Most Important Step--file all my neatly sorted piles. Because I know from bitter experience that if I leave them as neatly sorted piles they will sidle and creep and spill into each other and end up a bigger mess than I started with.

I have noticeably reduced the weight on my desk but I still have a ways to go.

In other news, I am eating better--got up to 3 fruits, 3 dairy, 2 whole grains and a veggie today and I haven't had dinner yet. Though 5 veggies is problematic--how do people eat five veggies in a day without ending up having veggies for breakfast which doesn't appeal to me? I kind of fell off the diet wagon over Christmas and spent January trying to crawl back on. I don't know why it takes me so long to get serious about it, but it does, which is why I try not to fall off much.

Also, oddly enough, I seem to have managed switching off diet mountain dew.  Kip (who is also dieting) wanted diet root beer the other day, so while we were picking up a 2-liter for him at the store, I also picked up a 2-liter of decaf diet dew for me.  Now it used to be I'd have drunk it in a day but the poor thing has been sitting on the counter for three days now and is still 2/3 full.  I keep forgetting about it.  So apparently if I don't have something for long enough I lose the compulsive taste for it.  Interesting.
 And somehow, once I get *something* done, I feel very energized--so the success on the food and paperwork fronts means I have also gotten the LWV booklet to the printers, taken my Very Best Dress to the cleaners, paid the phone bill, gone through the mail, rinsed the furnace filter, bought the mp3 rescuing program and synched my iPod with the new laptop except for its apps, which I think just can't be done, and sent off a couple of CDs.

I still have had to put things off till tomorrow, however

Comments

[keris]

5 veggies a day? Well, fish is a vegetable (according to the mediaevalists) and so is beaver (because it's a fish according to the Catholic church). And don't forget that chocolate is a vegetable (it comes from a bean which grows on a plant like a tree; it grows in the forest with its other tree brothers so chocolate is a vegetable you see!). And chips (which are potatoes). And, and, er, cows eat vegetables so they must be vegetables. So that's five *g*.

("Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalising animal.")

[catsittingstill]

:-)

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I always get more accomplished around the house or on errands I dislike when I have a job I dislike more, such as grading grammar or bills. (Look! I *can* get things done! Just not x, the evil project.)

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I used to call that procraftstination. :)

[mdlbear]

:)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Mostly, when I manage 5 veggies in a day I do it by snacking on veggies (usually raw) at random times during the day, when I feel the urge to snack on anything. This means I can have a veggie at lunch, a double portion of veggies at dinner, and two rounds of carrot-stick snacks or somesuch.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

snacks are how I'm getting in enough fruit. I suppose I could add a veggie, though.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Saved the part down to the cut to my desktop.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-) Happy to help.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, those piles sound familiar. & I've promised myself I will pick up some of mine before I pick apipiyalotl tomorrow at the airport. But then, I've also promised myself a trip to the gym, and a bit more pay work, and ... Think I'll go to the gym. I fell off the gym exercise wagon practicing for the steampunk dance & now I have to start again.

Mountain Dew is caffeinated, and a health risk for me--it is a vasoconstrictor. Of all the things not on a heart-healthy diet I miss caffeine the most. But my blood pressure is down & my cholesterol levels are better. Yay!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Yay for the beneficial effects of diet!

Out here one can actually find caffeine-free Mountain Dew. However, even in its diet form, it's both less good nutrition and more expensive than a lot of other things one could drink, and I'm trying to make it just an occasional treat rather than a staple.

[filkferengi]

I've been cutting back on the sodas, too. Now I only have them with dinner at home and to take vitamins & supplements.