Wednesday, May 26, 2010
JR;s List Item #46: (done) Give unwanted professional books to a friend's school.
I took four large bins of books and some additional teaching materials to Pecan Valley Elementary where my friend, Katie teaches. I know the staff will make good use of the materials and I now have additional space on my shelves.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
CEA's update #13
Item #5. Clean out my e-mail inbox and keep the number of e-mails below 20.
Progress: During the first week of this effort I reduced my e-mails from 357 to 98. Today I'm down to 9. All of them are read but need action. I also emptied several of the folders I was keeping and deleted the folders. I had Pending, Holding, Backlog, and Archive folders among others! How exactly those four really differed, I'm not sure. I learned a new term when I was reading a blog I learned about from http://www.happiness-project.com/ : e-mail bankruptcy. In e-mail bankruptcy, you eliminate ALL of your e-mails without reading them and start over. The blog discussion is interesting: one person admitted to having over 16,000 e-mails. Here's the post: http://www.mom-101.com/2010/05/drastic-inboxes-call-for-drastic.html
Progress: During the first week of this effort I reduced my e-mails from 357 to 98. Today I'm down to 9. All of them are read but need action. I also emptied several of the folders I was keeping and deleted the folders. I had Pending, Holding, Backlog, and Archive folders among others! How exactly those four really differed, I'm not sure. I learned a new term when I was reading a blog I learned about from http://www.happiness-project.com/ : e-mail bankruptcy. In e-mail bankruptcy, you eliminate ALL of your e-mails without reading them and start over. The blog discussion is interesting: one person admitted to having over 16,000 e-mails. Here's the post: http://www.mom-101.com/2010/05/drastic-inboxes-call-for-drastic.html
Monday, May 24, 2010
CEA's progress report #12
Item #31: Cook from a "found" recipe once a week.
Last week I baked Giada De Laurentiis's raspberry brownies (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/chocolate-raspberry-bars-with-white-chocolate-and-almonds-recipe/index.html). I liked the concept, but next time I'll try a different brownie mix. She recommends using a Duncan Hines mix; I'll use my favorite packaged brownie mix next time (Betty Crocker). Since I already had a package of sliced almonds, I used those instead of the salted almonds.
Last week I baked Giada De Laurentiis's raspberry brownies (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/chocolate-raspberry-bars-with-white-chocolate-and-almonds-recipe/index.html). I liked the concept, but next time I'll try a different brownie mix. She recommends using a Duncan Hines mix; I'll use my favorite packaged brownie mix next time (Betty Crocker). Since I already had a package of sliced almonds, I used those instead of the salted almonds.
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