I was working yesterday; my day, now that I'm retired, seems to fall into various "parts" and there are a couple difficult parts, especially after "Noon" to dinnertime. I get to watching daytime TV and that's not good :-)

So, I decided to make a list of other things I "want" to do and now I have switched my computer time from morning when I first get up (I have a tendency to get on at 8:30 or so and stay on until I run down and enter the "danger" time) to the difficult time after lunch/now. That way all the stuff I enjoy doing on the computer, all my school work, conversations here and elsewhere, etc. I'll have to enjoy during what is normally a too quiet, not enough good "distraction" time. In the morning when I get up all full of vim and vigor and more active, I can work on the things on my list which aren't as appealing later in the day. Today I got a book mailed to a friend that I finished reading in November and put aside then to mail to her, wrote a nice little note to her first, too. I didn't quite make it to my afternoon time though before I couldn't stand it anymore and came on the computer :-) but I like the idea and the list I'm making of "little" tasks that I think I genuinely would enjoy doing (figuring out what storage "boxes" to buy at the stationary store and what to put in them, etc. and how to organize my too many books, etc.); I have a friend in prison I send a postcard to every day and have figured out how to make my own postcards but often it takes me a long time to get around to taking pictures I want to put on the postcards -- I have a couple thought of now and just need to "do it" plus my genealogist across country I'm going to see in the Spring needs more scanning of the letters I have so she can help me; projects like that which would be simple and fun if I were "forced" to do them :-) I think rearranging my times will help me twofold that way, give me my better morning hours for the little things I put off and my harder afternoon for the automatic/built-in things I enjoy like school work and working online that don't need much if any pressure to get me to do.