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My Domestic Goddess Status – Just an Update

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Renee Spindle

It is almost the end of April, and it has been just about a year since I quit my job in the Corporate arena! My how time flies!! I was crowned by my beloved Travel Man as the Domestic Goddess of our household shortly after I decided to stay at home for a while. Little did I know how much I would love this title. If you follow my stories you know I left my job a year ago to pursue other interests. Here’s a link to my post from last April about my life change-Our Girls Vision Luncheon.

In the past year I have had the opportunity to spend time with my grandson, do lots and lots of baking, do a little bit of sewing ( I want to get more of this done soon!), start and finish some little home improvement projects, take a few trips with Travel Man, try some new recipes, add to our list of family favorite recipes, read more books, and generally have the luxury to just come and go as I please. This has all been so personally rewarding for me. Getting to discover what I love to do again, and who knew that I had a passion for writing. I always felt that I had some stories to tell that people would relate to, but I did not realize how much I would enjoy sharing them.

My Domestic Goddess title was given to me by my loving husband. It is because of his encouragement and support that I am able to do what I want to do. Thanks Travel Man for all that you do.

One of my biggest perils in my new-found title is getting side tracked when I am working on things around the house. Does this happen to anyone else? I have had a few discussions with my sister, who works from home, about this, and she tells me the same thing I am already feeling. If you don’t stay focused on the task at hand you get sidetracked to some other task, and then you have to re-focus to get back to the task at hand. Was that statement too confusing, it made my head spin just typing it. That’s why I am really focusing on my lists everyday. To stay away from the “side tracks”.

Also, I have had the good fortune to just pack my bags and take a few short trips with Travel Man. We went to Reno to visit my parents, and last year I was able to take a long road trip with him from Franklin, Kentucky to home. Lots and lots of fun being on the road with someone who travels for a living.

For awhile Travel Man’s days off were falling during the week, so our “weekends” would be happening on a Tuesday/Wednesday timeframe. No worries for us, we are just able to do what we want to when he is home. Sometimes at Disneyland, maybe out to dinner, a visit to the parentals, some time with the grandson, and hopefully a dinner together with the twenty-somethings.

This has been a great year of re-discovery for me. A big hug and thank you to all of my family for your loving support and guidance. I’m looking forward to more and more new discoveries in this next year, and hope to share the stories with each and every one of you.

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I think I’m a List-a-holic!!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Renee Spindle

How do you keep track of your to-do’s? Are you using Outlook, Evernote, an old-fashioned tablet and a pen? I have what I will loosely call a passion for making lists. Sitting down with a cup o’ coffee in the morning and putting together my list for the day or the week, just gets my day and week going on the right foot.

I like to keep myself fairly organized, and feel like I am accomplishing things each and every day. I have lists for groceries, sewing projects, household projects, gifts ideas, recipe ideas, etc, etc.

I am always trying new and improved ways to organize my lists, with the hopes that the things on the lists will get done just that much sooner. Ha! As we all know the only thing that helps move your lists along, or get things checked off of your list is just by digging in and “doing”.

My lists were bugging me recently, because a few assorted tasks were sitting on the list idly and not getting done. So, I decided to keep track of my time for a few days to see where I was wasting time, or not making an efficient use of my time. This is kind of like writing down what you eat every day to keep track of your calories. As soon as I started keeping track, in writing, each day of what I was doing I started getting more things done. More productive time spent on things I wanted to accomplish each day. My to do lists started getting the items on them checked off in a more timely manner than normal. Boom! This principle also applies to stalking your calories each day. When you write down what you are eating, Boom! You stop snacking so much because you don’t want to write it down on the list and add it to your calories!

My favorite list / project tool right now is using Evernote. Evernote can be used for project list or shopping lists and if you have a smart phone you can sync your lists with your smart phone to your pc. In Evernote you create a notebook for your “project”, and then within each notebook you can create a list of to-do’s, and the notebooks can be shared. I find this to be a great way to keep track of ongoing projects, that are longer term items.

For my daily lists, I am finding that the old-fashioned paper and pen method is working best for the moment. Just taking a few minutes in the morning to write down what I want to accomplish each day helps me to get on track first thing in the morning. There is some kind of sense of accomplishment for me to check things off the list! Oh and I use a red pen for this part! A good way to feel good about getting things done.

How do you keep yourself organized? What’s your favorite way to make a list for the day? Do you work a list each day or week? Do lists make you cringe?

I’d love to hear from you about how you keep track of your to-do’s. Leave me a comment! Happy listing everyone.