Today has been a relatively productive day. I almost have my desk in order – certainly better order than it has been lately. Paperwork that lingered on my desk is now filed, bills organized and set for payment and my computer/printer set-up has been resolved for now (I had to move my computer to the other side of the desk so that the printer plug could reach it 🙄). It is amazing how much time it can take to organize such a small space 🤷🏼♀️.
For the moment the printer behaving itself, but I fear there may be an issue with the computer (last night it restarted again for no reason). I just can’t with my computer today, so I am going to monitor the situation until I have the brain capacity to deal with it. Me + 💻 = 🤬🤬🤬.
I also decided that since I was cleaning, I should work on deleting emails as well. What a hole that is. I try to keep up with it on the daily, but I always think “I might need/want something from that email” and I don’t delete it. And then I forget about it until it’s been sitting in my folder for 3 weeks, with dates passed or old information 😆😆. Hot mess express right here 🙋♀️.
As I was deleting emails, I found a few asking me to take action. So I did. The results were varied and, in some cases, odd.
At 1 pm today, I had a request to participate in a survey regarding an upcoming book title. I clicked the link around 2:30 and it was already closed – sheesh, short response time much? The next survey request came over the weekend from Eddie Bauer (I love their v neck t-shirts!) offering to pay me $150 if I’m chosen from sign up. That was a no brainer, 🤞! Another book survey (asking what I like to read) from last week was also in my pile of emails. I clicked the link for the approximate 10-minute survey (I’m really good at procrastinating on my work 😁) and after the fourth question about my ethnicity (white), they were done with me and ended the survey. Hopeful it means they are focusing on IPOC.
Next on the list of oddities – a survey for Psycom (https://www.psycom.net). It’s an online site that sends me periodic emails with stories/information about mental health issues (recommend checking them out). Again, I click the “take survey” icon on the email and the first question is age, in whole years (their words). I type in 52 and it won’t proceed because I have to answer the age question. Huh 😕?!? I try typing the word out – nope didn’t like that – then typed the number again with the same response. You know what I did? You guessed it, DELETE 😆!
At least the last two emails I dealt with were positive. The first was a request to join Penguin Random House reader rewards – we’ll see if I live to regret it 😮. The next email I should have read all the way through on May 12 because a comic strip that I have loved and read since the 1996 (and recently ended) will be re-run from the beginning on GoComic – a comic subscription service. As of today, Buckles has been added to my favorites! Dog lovers will totally appreciate this strip, so if you have GoComics (https://www.gocomics.com), check it out 😊.
Somedays it’s the little things that bring the most joy 💜
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