Plodding along

Time continues to pass, as is its wont. I continue to make minimal progress in most areas of my life.

Here is the list of many of the things that need doing by me at the moment:

• Start going to bed on time (really important - I'm too tired to think at the moment)
• Get more exercise
• Eat better food
• Process some forms
• Shred some paper
• Work out how to ignore de-construction noise outside my office (I mostly shred paper)
• Wash my mug
• File massive amounts of paper
• Change my bedlinen (HWSNBN has complained, but has refrained from stripping the bed himself. This annoys me, especially as I do re-make the bed when it has been stripped. In fact, stripping the bed is the single fastest way to make me re-make the bed. He is being too lazy to allocate work to me.)
• Deal with the massive pile of washing
• Invite a friend round to learn how to make soap
• Write to my friends
• Sort out my trip to see Louise
• Sort out holiday for the rest of the trip week
• Speak to big important person about access to an organ I want to play
• Speak to less important person about access to the insides of a big important organ I want to poke around
• Book the car in for a service
• Buy come joinery tools - they need to arrive before Tuesday
• See the doctor about not being able to breathe properly (Tuesday)
• Learn how to play the following on the piano (for rehearsal) and organ (for accompanying 500 people, apparently): O Come O Come Emmanuel; Once in Royal David's City; While Shepherds Watched; O Little Town of Bethlehem; O Come all ye Faithful
  
• Speak to Dave the Organist about that music he promised to give to me last year
• Put some stuff on a website
• Read lots of books about organs
• Read a book about joinery (start before Tuesday)
  
• Read some fiction books (low on the list - the library has surrendered its organ books to me, so I have a few to keep me going)
• Be nice to HWSNBN, in such a way that he feels appreciated (maybe I should try not suggesting that he is lazy on the Internet)
  
• Put photos from my camera on a different website
• Put some clean clothes away
• Start planning/assembling a birthday present for my aunt (ideally before Friday)
• Get in touch with the vicar and pick some hymns for Sunday, then learn how to play them
• Tell people with whom I go climbing that I am not going this evening, due to being too tired and lazy
  

That seems to cover most of it. It actually doesn't look so bad written out (except for the bit about accompanying 500 people on the organ - not much margin for error there). Alas, as soon as I try to get motivated to do most of it (i.e. most individual bits - I propose to tackle them in sequence, not all at the same time), it suddenly seems a lot more effort.

This lunch time I managed to squeeze in 15 minutes of organ practice. I established that O Come all ye Faithful is coming along nicely, and that an utter numpty wrote in the footings for O Come O Come Emmanuel. That would be me, I suppose, as I am not aware that anyone else is in the habit of writing in my carol books. I have attempted to remedy the problem,* and am a little happier with the situation now. If only I could play the thing... Fortunately, much of this piece is manuals only; I shall have a bash at that tonight.

*I only write on music in pencil, which makes it a lot easier to remedy mistakes.