The 25th Hour ~karenjcardoza.com~

Last night…

I was totally stressed out looking at my huge To Do list with little time to pull it all off. At the beginning of the week, I tackled our spare room in the basement and worked for 12 hours decluttering and cleaning. I knew I still had training camp ahead of me all week and also need to go to school to set up my classroom.

In the meantime my son decided that he wanted to paint his room,  so in addition to helping him, my house was a disaster during the remodel and it drove me nuts. I had camp all week, which also meant website updates, training camp reports and nightly podcasting. Last night, I was getting worked up trying to come up with a plan to do it all.

Today…

I got up early this morning, headed out to Target with Jake to get new bedding and curtains and helped him finish off that room. When I got to camp today, they said that they added another practice (Friday, 8/15 from 12-2)  I definitely can’t make that one as I already have 3 appointments scheduled for Friday.  So, since tomorrow is my only day that I can make it to school, I’m not going to tomorrow’s, 2:30 session either. (Since my perfect streak will be broken anyway on Friday, it’s almost easier to not go tomorrow now too and do the right thing by getting in that room.)

Tonight…

I came home, wrote my final training camp report, spent a few hours getting my house back in order, balanced my checkbook, did my online banking,  and recorded my final training camp podcast. Knowing that they’re in the bag (and that I have no more to do)  has lifted a huge weight from my shoulders. And, if I can set up most of my room before I head out for vacation, I’ll have no worries about that next week either and can truly relax.

“Tomorrow”

My daughter already asked about painting her room but that baby will have to wait until Labor Day weekend. I’ve still got tons to do before I leave but at least the “major” things will be behind me.

The crew at Commoncraft are at it again! Here it is… in plain English!

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Ahhhh… it’s so nice when things go your way without a hitch! I managed to reinstall Frontpage Extensions (hopefully for the last time since my new MacBook Pro is on its way!) so that I could update the website today.

I was also able to successfully redirect my podcast feed to podpress (and keep my original feed url) quite painlessly with the help of Twitter friend Wes @planetretcon. A simple request to Twitter for a link to a tutorial resulted in him direct messaging me and offering to help since he recently did the same redirect that I needed to do today. It literally took just a few minutes from the time of our gtalk chat message to my being up and running. Thanks so much Wes!

And thanks technology gods for holding me in good favor today

Last night I was able to bang out two podcasts while the kids were out and the pups were sleeping. There’s not much going on in Patriot Nation but I did a brief Offseason Update. I also was inspired to get my thoughts out there and did a new Muse With Me about my feelings sparked by reading Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth and taking Oprah’s web seminar.

It’s a rainy Saturday so it’s time to do some webwork but I’m having trouble with my Frontpage Extensions again with my host for my website so I’ll be working on fixing that now (AGAIN) to make an update. Then, I’m determined to learn how to separate my rss feed from my website and automate it so that I only have to rely on wordpress and podpress to get a show out. Wish me luck!

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