Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:43 pm
Mystery, Amazing Marvin sounds interesting. My problem with any app is knowing how to use it, how to use it fully (not the same thing), and if I will actually use it.
I have a Remember the Milk set up somewhere and the Pomodero program I use is partly set up (but that part is unused, I only use it as a timer). My daily and weekly 'cards' are in google calendar but the zone work resides on paper in charts I have set up to check off when things are done.
I just pulled out that clipboard (it resides next to my computer here) and best I can tell, it hasn't been touched since Jan 2023. And for Zone 5, only one item was done in Jan a different one in Feb and nothing since then. I'll give myself grace since I had dgs for 1/3 of the days in January last year, then regularly in Feb and all that was lead up to him being with us for 10 days over the same time frame as dh having open heart surgery, then remaining in a medically induced coma, then home and me getting Covid a week later, and then the long wait for him to be able to have the cardio inversion to get his heart reset. Then it was summer and our trips to NS, Hay Lake x2, and then it was October and ds's wedding and then I was sick for over 5 weeks with the never-ending cold and then Christmas.
No wonder my zone pages are basically blank for 2023!
I would argue it matters not what system I use, none would have anticipated a year like 2023 (or 2020, 2021 with their covid lockdowns). 2022 was much better, I worked the zone chores reasonably well that year as part of my return to normalcy but then things fell apart again.
On the other side, the dailies and weeklies are such habits, plus we are a family of 2 adults most of the time, so the apartment stays pretty clean and reasonably tidy (or at least 15 - 30 minutes away from company ready). Even when dgs2.75 is here, I have his toys set up so the living room can be completely tidy in 15 minutes (maybe longer if he's 'helping'.) And along with the weeklies, I often do zone chores out when things are getting 'bad.' For instance, I took the time to vacuum behind the bed yesterday (but not under the dressers) and, of course, the the spare bedroom was completely cleaned last week when we set up the new beds. For things like changing the vacuum bag and the brita filters, I keep a record on the actual boxes so if I wonder if it needs doing, I have an answer, as opposed to my system telling me to do something.
That all said, I've been meaning to pull out the zone work and since my back is getting better now, I should restart it, or attempt to.
As for a PWYC check-in, I'm dressed, the shower curtain used to repot on is now clean and hung to dry, and the kitchen floor is mopped. The snow continues. Apparently we are expecting 4". So the question is, where are the plows. I look over two main roads and neither have been plowed, nor to I hear plows in the distance. Actually, it is lovely and quiet out my windows right now since the snow is muffling the sound of cars.
Next up: breakfast. Then filing.