Posts Tagged: pumpkin

Daily Check-In / Monday Motivation — No Comments
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Nov 08

New week, new month, new time

Bills, bills, bills
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It’s the dreaded first business day of the month, which means… invoicing day. Oh, well. As much as I hate the paperwork, invoicing (sometimes) means getting payments, so there you have it.

Had a fun weekend, am feeling much better (and hopefully will be sounding good enough to sing this weekend—it’s our band’s “on” week). Just did one of my new yoga DVDs and am happy I purchased it—I think it will help with labor and delivery (assuming I keep doing it! :) ).

Never heard back about the pumpkin contest, so that’s an assumed “no.” Was hoping it would pay off, but in the end it was really just a $7 gamble (well, you know, plus the hours and hours of carving ;) but those were fun).

Most Important Tasks

  • Invoicing
  • Style my small WordPress-based gallery plugin
  • Make a couple of small client-requested tweaks

The reward

Play time with colors, themes, and Twitter backgrounds. Or sewing.

Daily Check-In — No Comments
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Oct 08

My holiday spirit kind of wandered off…

Things between us should feel fine,
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Every day feeling a little better. Still napping like a… um… cat. Aren’t you glad I just have a cold and not something actually serious? I could be moaning about that for months!

No word yet on the pumpkin contest but they were expecting some entries to come in late last evening and to do the judging this morning. Sounds to be some other entries that are very good, so we’re definitely not a shoo-in.

No big plans for Halloween. I’d thought about wearing basketball clothes and painting my belly as a ball, but after something like 13 consecutive days of having something to do every night, I’m ready to just lay low and do nothing. We have candy to hand out and I’ll just concentrate on not eating that. :)

Most Important Tasks

  • Respond to a particular client email
  • Start to create a small WordPress-based gallery plugin

The reward

Play time with colors, themes, and Twitter backgrounds.

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Oct 08

Feeling lucky?

Marginally better today, but still feeling exhausted.

The one potentially exciting thing about today: Leanna and I carved a pumpkin for her apartment’s contest, and it’s being judged today. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place each get a month’s free rent, so we’re really hoping. We went the “kiss-up” route, which is kind of a gamble, but might pay off.

Most Important Tasks

  • Finish front page for client theme (a different one than yesterday)
  • Read an email from a client that I’ve been resisting

The reward

More napping.