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attractivegeekery) wrote2014-01-04 06:02 pm
attractivegeekery) wrote2014-01-04 06:02 pm
Fear my productivity
This weekend marks the first Truly Empty weekend I've had since before Halloween, and it couldn't have come at a better time.
For starters, it's the New Year, which means it's time to clean out my File Cabinet of all of last years receipts and statements in preparation for tax time. This, in turn, means it's time to part ways with the papers that fall outside of the Seven Year Audit Zone.
Now'd be a good time to point out that this will be the first year I implement the Seven Year Audit zone purging. Yes...I do in fact have every debit/credit receipt for every purchase I've made since the fall of 1999. DON'T JUDGE!
Anyway, in order to partake of this purge I needed to empty the closet I use the back of to store my files, and before I could get to that there was an invisible corner that needed emptying. So my afternoon looked like this:
Empty Invisible Corner.
Items found include: three wigs, pictures from high school, a mid-beta'd Milli-fic about the first time Tonks and Bernard hooked up, the Pre-Published "Hunter: The Reckoning" play test manuscript, more Ninja Turtle plastic weapons than a woman my age should own, Ninja Turtle Valentines from the 2k3 era run of the cartoon, and a Ninja Turtle T-Shirt iron-on set from...maybe Jr High?
That corner is like a time capsule.
Empty Closet
Items found include: two pair sai, four Comic Con swag bags, two Navy Surplus gasmask bags, more coats than I know what to do with, a cd/tape deck boom box, the packaging and accessories for my NECA Turtle figures, luggage scale, windshield cleaner, Garmin GPS, three longboxes of random X-Universe comics, and my tuxedo collection.
Oh...and the files themselves. You know, the things I went in there to find in the first place.
Files from 1999-2005 were isolated and shoved into two other shoeboxes, and the two freed file boxes were transferred to my desk. Then I went and replaced everything from the closet back in the closet, making sure to rid myself of random boxes of manuals for computers long since replaced.
Last year's tax information was still at my desk, so it was now placed in its permenantish home, with this years tax stuff being removed from the filecabinet and put in the second freed up box.
When that was all done and over with I went and balanced my checkbook, pre-paid a couple of bills, and then set into motion a transfer that will pave the way for me being debt free by my next pay period.
I even started that 52 Week Savings Plan thing I'd seen going around Tumblr.
Basically you make a weekly deposit based on the weekly number. This being the first week of the year means I deposited $1. Next week it'll be $2, and the week after that $3. My hope is that by the end of this year I'll have enough for something nice for myself, but knowing me I'll be using it to pay off my credit cards once again.
The goal this year is to pay off my cards every month. Let's see how that goes.
Speaking of goals, I've a couple of other projects I'm working on, resolutions if you will.
The first is to import my entire library into Good Reads. I'd say I'm maybe a little over a third of the way done with that now. Praise be unto the ISBN Good Reads Android App Scanner!
Good Reads is where I'm going to keep track of all of my Trades and Graphic Novels, as well as my actual book books.
Individual floppy and digital issues will be recorded in the CBI app I have on my phone. Cataloging all of my floppies into that is going to be...a much more labor intensive project. For one the CBI app doesn't have a barcode reader, for another I have A LOT of comics. A lot. Like...lots and lots.
This is why I put out that call for anyone interested in doing data entry. Seriously, I'll totally feed you.
Along with physical reading material goals, I also have intangible reading goals. I'm shooting to read a paperbound book a month, in addition to trying to make some massive headway with the comics I've fallen behind in. (Unwritten, I'm looking at YOU.)
In an effort to encourage this, I'm trying to leave my kindle at home, and only bring paperbound books with me when I commute. It's taking more than a bit of willpower to not just kill bus time with Tumblr, but I've hope I can read at least 12 books this year.
I know, I know. Some of you read twelve books in as many days, but I read with a speed that makes even glaciers look speedy. So...yeah. There's that.
At the moment I'm reading "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. I'm really liking it so far, though I'm not sure how many of the names he's dropped will stick in my head for any duration.
So in addition to all of the above, I've also done a bit of online shopping. For the bargain price of $5 I've managed to procure two new floating land areas for the boys, which they'll no doubt not even notice. I'll notice though, and that's what's important. Especially seeing as they were paid for by my Amazon points and PetCo gift card.
So yeah, that's my weekend thus far.
All productive and crap.
For starters, it's the New Year, which means it's time to clean out my File Cabinet of all of last years receipts and statements in preparation for tax time. This, in turn, means it's time to part ways with the papers that fall outside of the Seven Year Audit Zone.
Now'd be a good time to point out that this will be the first year I implement the Seven Year Audit zone purging. Yes...I do in fact have every debit/credit receipt for every purchase I've made since the fall of 1999. DON'T JUDGE!
Anyway, in order to partake of this purge I needed to empty the closet I use the back of to store my files, and before I could get to that there was an invisible corner that needed emptying. So my afternoon looked like this:
Empty Invisible Corner.
Items found include: three wigs, pictures from high school, a mid-beta'd Milli-fic about the first time Tonks and Bernard hooked up, the Pre-Published "Hunter: The Reckoning" play test manuscript, more Ninja Turtle plastic weapons than a woman my age should own, Ninja Turtle Valentines from the 2k3 era run of the cartoon, and a Ninja Turtle T-Shirt iron-on set from...maybe Jr High?
That corner is like a time capsule.
Empty Closet
Items found include: two pair sai, four Comic Con swag bags, two Navy Surplus gasmask bags, more coats than I know what to do with, a cd/tape deck boom box, the packaging and accessories for my NECA Turtle figures, luggage scale, windshield cleaner, Garmin GPS, three longboxes of random X-Universe comics, and my tuxedo collection.
Oh...and the files themselves. You know, the things I went in there to find in the first place.
Files from 1999-2005 were isolated and shoved into two other shoeboxes, and the two freed file boxes were transferred to my desk. Then I went and replaced everything from the closet back in the closet, making sure to rid myself of random boxes of manuals for computers long since replaced.
Last year's tax information was still at my desk, so it was now placed in its permenantish home, with this years tax stuff being removed from the filecabinet and put in the second freed up box.
When that was all done and over with I went and balanced my checkbook, pre-paid a couple of bills, and then set into motion a transfer that will pave the way for me being debt free by my next pay period.
I even started that 52 Week Savings Plan thing I'd seen going around Tumblr.
Basically you make a weekly deposit based on the weekly number. This being the first week of the year means I deposited $1. Next week it'll be $2, and the week after that $3. My hope is that by the end of this year I'll have enough for something nice for myself, but knowing me I'll be using it to pay off my credit cards once again.
The goal this year is to pay off my cards every month. Let's see how that goes.
Speaking of goals, I've a couple of other projects I'm working on, resolutions if you will.
The first is to import my entire library into Good Reads. I'd say I'm maybe a little over a third of the way done with that now. Praise be unto the ISBN Good Reads Android App Scanner!
Good Reads is where I'm going to keep track of all of my Trades and Graphic Novels, as well as my actual book books.
Individual floppy and digital issues will be recorded in the CBI app I have on my phone. Cataloging all of my floppies into that is going to be...a much more labor intensive project. For one the CBI app doesn't have a barcode reader, for another I have A LOT of comics. A lot. Like...lots and lots.
This is why I put out that call for anyone interested in doing data entry. Seriously, I'll totally feed you.
Along with physical reading material goals, I also have intangible reading goals. I'm shooting to read a paperbound book a month, in addition to trying to make some massive headway with the comics I've fallen behind in. (Unwritten, I'm looking at YOU.)
In an effort to encourage this, I'm trying to leave my kindle at home, and only bring paperbound books with me when I commute. It's taking more than a bit of willpower to not just kill bus time with Tumblr, but I've hope I can read at least 12 books this year.
I know, I know. Some of you read twelve books in as many days, but I read with a speed that makes even glaciers look speedy. So...yeah. There's that.
At the moment I'm reading "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. I'm really liking it so far, though I'm not sure how many of the names he's dropped will stick in my head for any duration.
So in addition to all of the above, I've also done a bit of online shopping. For the bargain price of $5 I've managed to procure two new floating land areas for the boys, which they'll no doubt not even notice. I'll notice though, and that's what's important. Especially seeing as they were paid for by my Amazon points and PetCo gift card.
So yeah, that's my weekend thus far.
All productive and crap.