setting goals
Apr. 3rd, 2012 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensBack on the job again, back to QAing training materials, and grateful that this is a four-day week. (Easter holiday coming up, whee!) My coworkers were amused to see all the beads I'd bought, but, well, not particularly surprised. And I would like to be bouncing into action with said beads, but I have a particular quilt to finish first (the Flower Fairy one for a coworker's greatniece), and if I work on it solidly then I should be able to get it done by next Tuesday.
And then I will do other stuff.
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THE DON'T LIST
(Things to avoid if you don't want to be the next victim)
1. Don't go for lonely walks with those you've just disinherited.
2. Don't sip a glass of warm milk left at your bedside by an unseen hand.
3. Don't sample the chocolates that arrived by post, anonymously, on your birthday
4. Don't rendezvous with the mysterious stranger who offered you a dukedom over the phone in a decidedly muffled voice.
5. Don't follow up on the advert in the Personals Column that said if you contact Pains & Grillard, Solicitors, you will hear something to your advantage.
6. Don't accept hunting invitations from business associates after you have refused to sell them your controlling shares in the company.
7. Don't attend masquerade balls given by wealthy eccentrics who send the car round to collect you and insist you tell no one where you're off to.
8. Don't ever enter the secret passageway first.
9. Don't remark to William, that rascal, that the mac he misplaced seems to be jammed into the hall cupboard for some inexplicable reason.
10. Don't kiss Barnaby when you have just turned Alex down flat and he has not yet left the house.
11. Don't tell the Inspector you think it nothing more than an unfortunate accident and police surveillance a breach of your privacy.
12. Don't stand with your back to billowing draperies, particularly if the windows are shut.
13. Don't offer to fetch the candles from the pantry if the lights suddenly dim, flicker and go out.
14. Don't comment that you never realized Titian painted in acrylics within earshot of the gallery owner.
15. Don't suggest an audit of the books.
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-- Catherine Prezzano, in Murder Ink
And then I will do other stuff.
---
THE DON'T LIST
(Things to avoid if you don't want to be the next victim)
1. Don't go for lonely walks with those you've just disinherited.
2. Don't sip a glass of warm milk left at your bedside by an unseen hand.
3. Don't sample the chocolates that arrived by post, anonymously, on your birthday
4. Don't rendezvous with the mysterious stranger who offered you a dukedom over the phone in a decidedly muffled voice.
5. Don't follow up on the advert in the Personals Column that said if you contact Pains & Grillard, Solicitors, you will hear something to your advantage.
6. Don't accept hunting invitations from business associates after you have refused to sell them your controlling shares in the company.
7. Don't attend masquerade balls given by wealthy eccentrics who send the car round to collect you and insist you tell no one where you're off to.
8. Don't ever enter the secret passageway first.
9. Don't remark to William, that rascal, that the mac he misplaced seems to be jammed into the hall cupboard for some inexplicable reason.
10. Don't kiss Barnaby when you have just turned Alex down flat and he has not yet left the house.
11. Don't tell the Inspector you think it nothing more than an unfortunate accident and police surveillance a breach of your privacy.
12. Don't stand with your back to billowing draperies, particularly if the windows are shut.
13. Don't offer to fetch the candles from the pantry if the lights suddenly dim, flicker and go out.
14. Don't comment that you never realized Titian painted in acrylics within earshot of the gallery owner.
15. Don't suggest an audit of the books.
[...]
-- Catherine Prezzano, in Murder Ink
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Date: 2012-04-03 02:01 am (UTC)Mmmm, beads.
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Date: 2012-04-03 12:43 pm (UTC)(And always mmmm, beads!)
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Date: 2012-04-04 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-04 12:31 am (UTC)