Stream of Conscience

Remember my gushing about springpad?  Well, besides having given the wrong link (the correct domain name is springpadit.com, not springpad.com), I have done nothing on my lists.  This is one of my problems:  I’m great at making lists, not so great at completing them.

So, since the day is relatively new, I have a large cup of coffee at hand, and my mind is relatively clear despite being a tad tired from singing last night (hence the large vice medium coffee),  I checked my springpad to-do items.   Therefore, in an effort to make me accountable, I hereby list the things I want to accomplish this evening.

1. Fix my Sci Fi Chicks picture (it’s 2 baby chicks with laser pistols and alien hats) so that it will better transfer to merchandise.
2. Clean off/organize the bookcase in my computer room (which also includes loading pages for upcoming months in my DayTimer).
3. Cook dinner.  It’s a ginger steak salad recipe I found in a recent issue of Good Housekeeping.   I can cook it tonight because 1) it’s fast and easy, and 2) I’m talking tomorrow off to run some errands.
4. Create (maybe) and submit icons to the latest Jensen Ackles Stillness icontest on LiveJournal.  (I have one icon done and a couple half-assed ones half done.  Not sure I’ll submit anything other than the one, though.)  Yeah, the photos are old, but there wasn’t a lot of Jensen news this past week (to my knowledge).  I predict next week’s challenge will be a golf outing with Jensen sporting an argyle sweater vest (seriously!), white baseball cap, and season-hiatus semi-beard.
   [In related news, the Jared Padalecki Stillness community is back in session.  I've already submitted my 3 icons, even though I wasn't all that crazy about the photo selection—the Friday the 13th movie cast goth photoshoot.] *
5. Watch Supernatural; it’s “Monster Movie,” one my favorite episodes from a season of many, many excellent episodes.  Who else but the sick mind of Ben Edlund could come up with a 6′ talking teddy bear and a Vespa-riding, pizza-eating Dracula in the same season?

Well, if I can’t get them all done, I’ll skip #4 until tomorrow.

*No, I do not have a Supernatural actor obsession.  :þ

I think I finally figured out how to use springpad.  What is springpad, you ask?  It’s one of those “organize your life” web applications, sort of like Evernote.  Evernote is more established and well known, but I started using springpad before Evernote, so I’m more comfortable with it.  (Which isn’t a whole lot, because I just created a whole bunch of new springpads by accident and can’t figure out how to delete them.  Ugh.)  Plus, Evernote appears to be blocked at work.  So springpad it is for me.

I’d been creating folders and “springpads” (heh) for awhile, but they were really just an amalgamation of junk.  Finally this week things started to gel.  I made one pad to keep track of the things I want to do online, including ideas for Sci Fi Chicks, things I should do while on the computer (instead of getting sidetracked with various forms of solitaire), and what to tackle in my great effort to get my home (and life) in order.   Springpad comes with a several templates to address some of life’s everyday and not-so-everyday tasks; like moving checklists, budgets, pet information, and daily chores (I’m so not using that one!).  The one I do plan on using is the weekly meal planner.  Yep.  It’s time to get back on the meal planning and better eating bandwagon.

But none of that “get myself organized” crap tonight.   Tonight I’m going chill out and watch My Bloody Valentine 3D, only not in 3D.  3D or no 3D, Jensen Ackles is still one of the seven wonders of the world.