Spring has sprung where you are.

I’m going to bed early too. G’nite MaryAnn!

Nighty-night. Sleep tight.

Don’t be disappointed. You got some stuff done, and there is always, as you said, another day and another week tomorrow!

I think it’s good to spend time clearing your smaller, quicker, odds & ends to-do list. For me, this creates a certain kind of mental space, and SOMETIMES I find that I’ve also made some intangible headway on my harder tasks just by thinking about them during that time.

So I’ve been wondering… the auto-text in some of your reports suggest you must have an exercise goal that’s not based on minutes. I’m so curious! What would you have to do to count it as exercising (since spending at least 0 minutes on it 3 days a week apparently doesn’t qualify!)?

Thanks, Karen and Kim.

Kim, that’s the rule I use for doing a set of pushups and planks. I hate to admit how I’ve fallen off that wagon. I was so keen on it for several months, it didn’t take any effort to fit them in. And now, poof, motivation evaporated, just like that.

I get your point about the smaller odds & ends. It’s sort of like clearing the decks. But sometimes the odds & ends just take over and fill up the day. Or fill up 3/4 of the day, and then I take a break and start watching cute cat videos on YouTube, and then… game over.

Well, at least you got a bunch of the littler stuff done. Yep, tomorrow’s another day, for sure.

True. A bunch of that stuff did get done.

A website about elephant conservation/protection:
http://elephantopia.org/

Certainly looks a lot happier than those poor guys at the zoo!

Wow – one fell swoop!
Thanks, Kimberly.

Thank you, griffon!

Fun video! Kepler enjoyed that one, too!

Have you seen the videos of Maru the cat?

Kepler would adore Maru, I’m pretty sure.
Just enter “maru the cat” in the YouTube search.

Here’s a good place to start:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mugumogu?feature=

The videos by “mugumogu” (apparently Maru’s human) are the best. You get the real audio without all that annoying added music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfGOlEizUUs

OH, yes! What a playful cat!

He’s such an adorable little cat – so much personality.

And found the perfect little thing to give her as an office-warming gift for her new office: a “pyrite sun”.
I may have to get one for myself.

Wow, I’ve never seen a “pyrite sun.” At first, I thought it was a sand dollar that had been covered with some sort of metallic covering. Beautiful!

Yes, they’re beautiful. And that this is a natural, crystalline formation. And the colour – sort of a soft, taupey gold. I don’t know if you can see in the web images, how it glistens in the light.

Rotis! Still on my list of things to try. Sounds like a nice day all around,

Still picking away at the to-do list. Of course, much more slowly than I’d like.

And just before bed, a large bowl of cut up, fresh, organic strawberries, with a tiny amount of brown sugar.
Looks like heaven. Smells like heaven. Tastes like heaven.

The crocus is similar to this Crocus malyi a few inches down on this page – but about a foot tall, and a bigger flower.
http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.ca/2011_01_01_archive.html

How lovely. Annie Lennox has a song called Fingernail Moon. Your description evokes the sense of that song.

Moon flower meetings backyard adventure. Ahhh.

:-)
You know, I’ve passed by that pure-white crocus a couple of times each day this week . . . and it’s just stunning.
All by itself, white against a brown-earth background, the most lovely goblet-shape. And I also noticed that its stem curves in a relaxed ‘S’. The most exquisite little thing, it is.

I always think of them as among the bravest of flowers. They peek up so very early, bringing us one of the first and most undeniable signs of winter’s end. Sometimes they’re so early they get buried in snow! Purple ones are my favorite because for SOME reason I get tired of white. (ha!)

Both a sense of progress and appreciations do matter, a lot. I’m happy your meetings had some of each!

And ah! to the crocuses, and the sunshine, and even the cloudinesses – I am reveling in them here, too. We have these trees called Callery pear trees on a lot of city blocks – they are among the first to flower in the spring, great masses of silky white flowers all over the place, it’s amazing and glorious.

Ah, but that to-do list. The day gets gobbled up by the day’s needs, and the bigger, more complicated stuff languishes by the roadside.

I’m starting to realize that it’s really true — in order to be more productive and get the stuff done that I want to get done, I’ll have to give up something else that I currently spend time on. (Even if that something is my do-nothing/wanking/relaxing time.)
Sigh.

I can just see you in one of your colorful scarves, smiling at the progress and appreciation, enjoying the tea,making the plans, enjoying the crocuses. Just makes me smile.

And your comment just makes me smile!

Smiling here also.