I Tunes University

I have to tell you about the new techie thingy I found on Itunes.  I tunes University.  You can listen to hundreds of lectures from universities all over the world.  Now some of you might already know about these, but I think there are some who may not.

I found a great series on C.S. Lewis talking about why adults need Narnia.  Amazing and interesting.  Isn't is great to stretch the little gray cells and listen to something that expands our minds?  And it is all free. I don't have to sign up for a community college class.  I can listen when I am walking or doing crunches or donning fresh lipstick a la Nancy Drew.

A wonderful sursee for your brain today.  Hope you will find one that interests you and then please tell me!

Staying organized this year

January is always a new start for me.  I like to write resolutions, make lists and organize myself.  So here is my newest way to do all three.

 I buy a cheesy spiral notebook and keep all of the above in it.   My "to do" list goes in it.  I jot my goals on one or two pages.  Grocery list for the week- perfect for that, too.

I keep my notebook with me by the computer so when I see something in an email or on a website that I need to remember,  it lands in "The Notebook".  That way at the end of the day I don't have a million little scraps of paper with phone numbers or dates or to dos.  I know where everything is.  In The Notebook.

I also keep my dreams in it.  My somedays, my maybes. My redecorating ideas, my big list of things to accomplish this year.  All there.

  It isn't fancy.  But it is a simple way to keep organized. A simple way to keep everything at your fingertips.

So go buy youself a little sursee- your organizing notebook and see if you like it.  I think you will.

I've gotta start somewhere

OK, I have been telling everyone and myself that I am going to blog.  So here I go.  You gotta start somewhere.  Speaking of starting, I am a finisher, not a starter.  This is the reason I have never started this blog, because I don't how I am going to finish.  I don't know who my audience is.  I don't really know my purpose.  All important things.  But not if I don't ever start.  I want all my ducks in a row.  I want to know all the answers to all my questions.  And, I have a lot of questions.

So for now, I will start because starting is part of my finishing.  Starting is the sursee today for me.  A sursee, by the way, is an unexpected surprise. Something that you give or receive that isn't big or important,but it makes you smile.  Starting this blog makes me smile.

 I hope it will be full of surprises that encourage  you and get you started doing something you keep saying you will start. Starting with the hope of a big finish.  Or a small finish.