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Thanks T. And I finished it yesterday yay

Today I focus on our living room, which is half of the living room/dining room combo of the list. The reason the list has it combined is the two rooms are actually one. I was gonna post images... BUT the site wouldn't let me attach them. Anyway my focus will be on that half of the room. Hopefully I will be able to do the other half today as well.

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Thanks T and Prim for the Happy Anniversaries we had a good dinner together and then we just stayed in for the night. So all and all the day was uneventful other than the shit at work. But that is life. This past week has been... Chaotic. To say the least. Friday I finally got a resolution to test box issues that needed to be done so I can move forward with my objectives. Just wasted two whole weeks to get it done, which is nothing new. Monday when I go in I will be verifying the box still works and then move forward as required. Onto the List though. With this past week though being so chaotic I was not able to keep maintaining on the dishes until today (I am finishing up the last set that I seen now). I also added a few other things to the maintain them now part of the job. The Pantry is 100% complete now I just need to maintain it, which if we eat the stuff out of it and throw the garbage out as we do so that will be no issue. I am hoping to be able to mark off more things later today/tomorrow/Monday in the morning so I that I can at least feel accomplished on this daunting task. Since the flash flooding we had last week we have been sleeping in the living room because Izzy's room still needs some work done and our room is not clean enough or big enough right not to handle two adults and a little kid that likes to be a wild banshee. The living room provides enough room and accessibility to things we need right now anyway so it is beneficial for us. The wife is also roughly 10 weeks along in her third pregnancy (the second one didn't end well - I won't bring that up again though) and having us in the living room with the wife sleeping on the futon (not the most comfortable but it is easier for her to get up when she needs to run to the bathroom) has been helpful for that aspect too. She is able to get up easier and what not -- plus I think she sleeps a little better when she knows she can get up easier to use the bathroom. With the chaos that has been going on I have not accomplished everything that needs to be handled. So that makes it really difficult to get back ahead of the game. Today though I hope to WILL get more done. When I come back the following days I should have at least ONE more item to scratch off (this challenge my last more than one challenge. now that I am looking at everything going on)

You can do eet (imagine Rob Schneider in a Sandler movie...)

Oh yeah it was. Monday wasn't awful. I am starting to feel like work is dragging my feet into thick mud I can't get out of. Determined to stick to my guns and get tired of the crap and accusations that my code is breaking things. I am not an idiot when it comes to development, even if my career experience isn't hard when you spend the last decade doing nothing but learning how to code cleanly and efficiently on your own time you start to learn things, then having to take what you taught yourself and apply it. My focus for my BTech was in HCI, I am not used in my focus, but that is fine. I am a software developer and want to keep it that way. I may ask eventually to switch to a more HCI oriented team but right now I am not pushing it. Instead I am focusing my energies and efforts on other things. My team keeps harping on wanting to get to a point of clean code of quality assurance seeing us in good light (which right now we are kind of in hot water) and sadly the team knows what to do, but no one is willing to take on the endeavor but ME, and they won't let me take it on. it isn't new logic, it isn't what business wants. Bullshit. If they want a quality product they need quality code. You can't have a quality software product if the code running it is shit. Gah tiresome bullshit. Speaking of tiresome, that crap at work has made me super stupidly tired. Garbage has been removed from the house, but the rest of the rooms still need to be finished. Tonight when I get home I will see what happens, no idea yet as today is my wife and mine's anniversary (been married for eight years now)

Damn. Enough said impressive

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Good job ditching the herbs that hurt

Hey guys, So this past week has felt like a week of Mondays, ending in the shittiest way ever. Monday was obviously Monday, Tuesday was PI Planning for work and some of the things i was planning to get done on Thursday were planned yay! Wednesday started off with rain, we woke up later than normal for a day my wife had to be in work at 7AM... Dropped Izzy off to daycare, get to work.. Realized my badge was left at home. fuck me. I had to call a taxi to pick me up so I can go home grab my badge and get into work. Done. Sweet, what can go wrong now right? Well.. Everything apparently, what I was hoping to get done Wednesday to have ready for that night/Thursday I couldn't do because my QA person was sick and out... So that whole day went to shyke. Thursday I took a PTO day and spent the day with my wife, she had a dr's appointment and we went to that, got out picked up Izzy and she had thrown up when she got up from her nap... Joy. Went home, rest of the day was pretty uneventful... Woke up Friday Morning, had to take another PTO day, Izzy woke up puking all over the place. So I stayed home with her and kept her from getting sicker (or at least throwing up more.. It didn't really help much). Cue Saturday. Well, the weather decided to make this week of Mondays end in hell. We had flash flooding. The way to our apartment was flooded. Wife couldn't get to work yesterday, we had several leaks in our roof (oh! That happened all week too... yeah) the power in just my daughter's room is out... And she had a pretty hefty leak in her closet... Joy! Oh and Saturday morning we had to water. a water main pipe bursted apparently. However, it did give me a chance to do a few things. cleaned out our pantry so it was prepped and ready to rock and roll yay! It is all pretty and organized (well as organized I can get it currently) doesn't smell like rotting potatoes or breads. so win! I got dishes done! Well, Nearly done, still gotta go through the fridge and clean that out and therefore all those dishes, but one thing at a time eh? As of right now all the loose dishes around the house + the ones in the sink are all cleaned. So win I say!

It hasn't been easy to get this even started, But we have kind of accomplished some things... But nothing to the extent I would call it clean. But laundry is almost to a manageable state, dishes are nearly completed and therefore should be easy to maintain. Hopefully I can scratch that off the complete list tomorrow. Laundry maybe. I am hoping to get those two things out of the way as they are the HARDEST to get to a state of manageability. Once those are done I will chug along on the rest of things. Probably starting with Izzy's room as that is nearly done too.

I like that ranking. I usually have this: Yay I did it and Bah I didn't

Bentonville Arkansas but I don't drive >.>

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Here is the run down that I was using in VA when I lived off of at most $80 a week (and all I bought was food weekly and necessary items every few months). 1. Eggs I ate a ton of eggs 2. Frozen Veggies, look around the store, they have them usually for 10/10 in most stores (carrots, peas, broccoli, etc) 3. Watch for marked down meat -- I use to work in a meat department (well seafood) and they would mark down their cuts daily. Wait for the big packs of say chicken or the roasts go on markdown/cheap sale and buy a bunch and freeze it. 4. Rice... Seriously this is a life saver for EVERY THIRD WORLD NATION. Yeah sounds horrible, but think about it. For cheap they can feed their family for some time. 5. Buy a good decent water bottle. Something you enjoy seeing in your face all the time. Keep it filled with water. When you want something to snack on, take a drink of water, wait and if you still want it, go get the candy bar or cookie. But don't over do it. This is what my weekly grocery order looked like: 1. Cheap Meat 2. Eggs 3. Veggies 4. Rice as needed (Every other week?) I bought a quart bottle every three months and lived off of water, lemon juice, and honey forever. The lemon juice and honey helped flavor the water so I wasn't tasting just tap water.. No fancy filter system, no bottle waters from the store... That was it.

From the 1st challenge this year: This is the list I am basing things off of. There are a few of those things I am going to take a day or so on (mostly the clothes one) to get it where I can maintain it. But that is the list. Note: Not all of them will be done daily, but all those items are there.

Hey guys! This is another leap into a not-quite exercise and eating challenge. BUT it does impact health over all. And I want to be healthy, and my wife, and my daughter... So Here is the deal! A few challenges ago -- 1 I promptly failed -- I did a few major boo-boos. This was that challenge in a nutshell: 1. I stuck with a routine for daily habits -- Mostly. 2. I did drink a gallon of water daily, for about a week... 3. I didn't do the other two goals I had wanted to do: cleaning and something else... writing? I don't remember. So here is what I know I did wrong: 1. I took too much on at once. Oops I knew better to. 2. The goals I had put on myself were NOT effective, they were not SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. They were necessary... They just weren't any of those. 3. The routine for daily habits was mostly self-hygiene. Which I slacked after the 3rd week of that challenge and I am not quite back to that again. Working on it. So this challenge is going to be a weird one. I am going to take one of those goals from that previous challenge and make it this challenge... With the addition of continuing to do the things I did in last challenge, because habits? (and I like my job...) I know this is something I never maintain more than one goal a challenge, but the techniques I learned at work should help me here... So reinforcement for the win! 1. Clean my damn apartment. Seriously... All of it -- clean it. I have an action plan too! I will complete ONE thing on my list of cleaning to-dos to completion in one day and then maintain it in that clean state through the WHOLE challenge and then some. (I will grab the cleaning list I have in a previous challenge and use it) This is what I mean: Today I been working on laundry. So that means in order to complete it I have to: Wash it all, Fold it all, Put it all away in the correct place. And then keep it that way for the next (well 5 weeks currently). That's it. It is do it once and then maintain. It is the maintain part that is hard for me... Super insanely hard. So my challenge is to declutter, clean, and maintain my house. Cause a clean environment bleeds into other things... Like a good clean bill of health, a place to stay, and room to do things in... I love having all of those things. It also would allow us to do some other things: - Find things we were missing - Better knowledge of what we have, how much of what, and where it is. - Remove all the crap. Keep what we need. - Force us to handle the things we need to take care of RIGHT NOW so we can dispose of the crap. - Do some movement stuff (cause it will make us move it.) I am going to break this done into the SMART criteria and see if I make it: Specific: Do one cleaning to do on my huge list of cleaning to-dos and then maintain Measurable: Said list gets done completely and doesn't grow. Attainable: YES! Totally is Realistic: Yes, especially if I remember to pick up after myself... And my daughter... >.> Timely: Well, one item off my to-do list in a day = 35 days (that's including this week starting today) I should have that covered. Here is how I plan on maintaining it: Example dirty clothes: 1. All dirty clothes currently washed, folded, put away, etc. 2. Any clothes dirted today - get put into hamper. --- Repeat until hamper is fill. 3. Do laundry: wash, fold, put away. 4. Repeat. Another example: Izzy's room 1. Pick up tornado known as kid's room. 2. Daily, before bed and bath, pick up room. Teach Izzy to maintain it as much as she can without our help. 3. Repeat.

Ok so I do have another post to make for this challenge. And here it is: I think I did well with work and my ADHD. Seriously I have been really productive lately, I have been diligently plugging along. It feels great. So next challenge is going to be taking some of the SAME tools and tricks I been using at work and apply them to home and the dreaded house work. Now I tried this before as a GOAL in a challenge and failed horribly. Looking back I am pretty sure why I failed it. I was throwing a huge to-do list at myself and it was just big and I got overwhelmed. So I am going to go more into that next challenge. Starting with week 0... Which will start tomorrow for me lol.

Okay so here is most likely my last update for this challenge I think. SO... here I go! This challenge I intended to work on getting my ADHD symptoms under control: So to say that I had my work cut out for me was a long shot, however I couldn't tackle these individually, as they are all executive functions that are pretty linked to one another. SO I took the major parts and worked on them through the challenge. They were further emphasized by my manager's response to my evaluation that ended during this time frame. So I am well versed in KNOWNING at least a fair amount of the distractions I have. I worked heavily on making strides in the right direction and therefore working on getting myself in a better position (plus I want to keep my job... SO improve was required/needed). How I have learned to start combating these issues? Well, I started with the following: So I have been pretty busy going towards the right direction I think. A few other things I need to get better at working on: - Getting the household bills and family debt taken care of quickly and efficiently without falling into collections or late fees, something I need to work on. - Motivation to get better with my health -- exercising and eating better. Hydration, etc. Well, if I respond before the send of the challenge I will be surprised... BUT here it is. Love it?

Hey Sorry I have not been replying here lately. I have been the following pretty much daily: 1. Exhausted, just constantly. It hasn't been very good for productivity 2. I been busy at work. I am trying the pomodoro technique to see if I can get more work done. It seems to have been helpful (coupled with the earplugs and the bujo it seems to be helpful) 3. Did I mention tired and exhausted? yeah that. 4. When I am home I been spending what time I can with my wife and daughter, but I been doing a lot of programming on my own game (which my daughter promptly stepped on the laptop and cracked the screen... SOOO I can't do that currently) I been trying to get the apartment cleaned up and bills and taxes done (we owe for two states, which sucks). Once things are done we can get down to prepping for our trip this July. We are heading back to NY for a week to spend time with family up there. I will do my best to being more active on the forums though.

Hey guys! No I didn't forget,I just got distracted... And busy... And... Okay I mostly got distracted. >.> Monday to uhh... -looks at his start bar to get the day- Wednesday... (Today dur) I have been work centric. Really seriously hate it though. - I worked on several defects - 5? All but like 2 of them were not my teams. 1 was a defect I created in production (that is the stores) that was not intentional and also did not actually BREAK the site so I am okay there, easy fix and was done within a few minutes. Boom. The other one has been odd, I sent it over to the offshore part of our team and supposedly they fixed it... Supposedly... I dunno for sure. The others involved something I supposedly broke (and didn't), and two others that just popped up into our queue and I started looking into. So, yeah - I have been looking into a bullet journal, I got some supplies to start one and figuring out how to go about starting it is going to be interesting I do have a normal journal (it is a pink one - hey I don't care lol) and I use it mostly for notes related to defects/features i am working on. Less for notes. I am terrible with notes and reminding myself of things, so that is what I am plan on using the bullet journal for (maybe I will even take pictures of it and post them up... Or a youtube video... We'll see... - Water has been eh, sleep has been eh... Food has been bad. Also, fidget cube was awesome. I was fidgeting and focusing and fidgeting and then I would get distracted... Then I would get back on topic pretty quickly and fidget some more... It was useful. I also bought one of those too lol.

hii Koal. I am confused as to what ya mean there! But hii! =D Update for today: I got out of work early (I was on call last week so for that I got a half day of PTO and I took it today) Which is awesomesauce for me. Today was kind of a slow day at work. It is St Patty's Day here and so that was beneficial to the slow day, I got rid of one issue on my hands because the team that is dealing with refreshing test boxes took the box back that I was using so they could refresh it (clean it out and redo the image on it) I got up stupidly early and had to be in the office but luckily things went smoothly for what was going on and the rest of the morning I spent troubleshooting an issue that I now no longer need to worry about (which is fine). I looked into the other things I am required to work on and then also looked into another defect that I have not yet been able to reproduce... So, with that said I did the following: - Checked my email repeatedly - Checked Youtube - Checked my task cards on TFS repeatedly (even if they didn't need to be checked) - Looked at my phone - Talked to coworkers... A lot. Bonus though! My coworker has one of those really neat fidget cubes from anstylabs... And I get to borrow it over the weekend... I got it like a half hour before my day ended at the office and I am already loving it. The thing is soooooo freakin' amazing. I might purchase one just so I can get one soon lol. It is freaking awesome. I saw there looking into code and collecting information well I played with the little cube of fidgets. It is seriously like 10 items in 1.

I got hired on at Walmart and relocated family to Bentonville Arkansas a year ago

TERI! -wavies-

Hey Teri! Honestly, I think I used the wrong words... Control mostly. Same with Symptoms... Honestly, they are apart of me. They are both a curse and a blessing. In the last almost 2 decades I am finally coming to terms with the "disorder" (well it IS a disorder) but I do not want to get rid of the flaws, they are a part of who I am. I was given enough hurdles in my life and have to deal with them all my life... ADHD gives me a chance to increase my productivity and such but at the same time it makes things super difficult. I literally had to write documentation out for my manager today, and I had no idea how to write why things were taking so long... All I wanted to write was ADHD over and over again, but refused to do that. I had to actually use the part of my mind that gets distracted to do my job and get it all down... Well, I did not actually put all the information down because I either never known it and others didn't know either... OR I literally couldn't find the issues. Due to my ADHD I have been able to do the following: - Obtain a job that allows me to fidget and I can call it work... Seriously, I write code ALL day long, or I read it. I love it, I hyperfocus on the code... As much as I hate analysis (it seriously kills my mojo) but I can type and scroll and click and move my mouse around and get out that issue which is nice. - I am not afraid to fail... It hurts when I get yelled at, but let me put it this way... I am still learning. - My job requires me to think four steps ahead, or connect the dots on things... My coworkers hate it because when we are prepping stories to add new logic on something specific they are doing and I am catching parts of it, but my brain is already thinking of how the same logic can be worked to stop something out, or fix something, or improve something else... They hate that though. - I am absolutely love my job and the work I do. I am super freaking excited about my work. I own it. - For a single project I have found a possible THREE other options to fix the same problem. THREE. Most would have found ONE... 3:1... That's what I do. Here is what I have learned from my ADHD (good and bad): - I miss the simple basic checks in code that can break other things: If statement to check if a String is not null (They can't btw). -- But I am learning A LOT of the impact those little basic things are and the importance of them. - I cannot, no matter how hard I try, multitask. Seriously. I cannot do more than 1 or 2 things at a time (And 2 is even difficult for me) - I much prefer time-based structure. I get super super annoyed when meetings get re-scheduled. Yet at the same time I am super flexible. - I am usually flipping back and forth on changes... I know they important and there are times where I am totally willing to adapt to the change, there are other times where I am utterly abhor the idea of change (99% of the time it is within a few seconds between one another) - I talk to myself... And a gnome on my desk my wife named 'Duckie' for me... Yes I said that I talk to a gnome statue... Seriously. (Side note: this is totally a legit methodology of programming and my coworkers think it is weird: https://rubberduckdebugging.com/) - When I can't talk to Duckie, or I find it can be distracting to others (which seems to be frequently) I get up and WALK. WALK a lot. -- Well this is all good for me in a number of ways, it is also useless in actually getting the work done. When I am stressing on a task I am prone to do more walking. It also makes it seem like I am just walking around and not doing my job... >.> - I know how to do the work and my teammates are super willing to keep my on my tasks... I just feel that I will end up becoming seen as a burden and I don't want that.. I don't think I will be though, just that is how I feel. - Even though I am on the same page as my coworkers on things we are saying in two entirely different ways... I just understand it differently and they don't seem to understand that either. It is troublesome. - A lot of the things that INTEREST me are things we want to do as a team... I just need to push my Tech Lead to do it. I feel it will help me tremendously. - I am asking the SAME EXACT questions over and over again. It isn't because I don't understand the task, it is because during the explanation or the steps needed to repeat something I... Well, I get distracted. My mind wanders... etc.