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1.) Crafts

I'm excited to be doing more crafts. I've been invited to two friends' craft nights, and am trying to attend both as many times as possible. I've been handed a good solution for the plethora of projects overwhelming me: organize them by time-sensitivity of each project.

Now I look at my list of 20 things and say, "gee, all I have to do is work on the most important thing first!" It's great.

2.) To do this weekend

I've listed this elsewhere in a private reference for me.

3.) Why Music Makes me Happy

I keep re-remembering this. It's silly because I know that music makes me happy. But I've been listening to iTunes at work, and it's been improving my mood and my productivity. I woke up this morning and sang Cat Empire's "The Crowd" in the shower. I'm trememdously happy.

4.) Problematic and non-problematic things in the movie "The Game"

So, this movie has incredibly creepy moments. I like that in movies. It also, upon further reflection, has a flawed premise.
( Spoilers )

5.) Getting to Inbox 0

This goal seems impossible for my personal inboxes, but I am slowly but surely getting there.
I use gmail and am a little worried about archiving all my old mail because I am very bad at remembering a phrase in a particular email or who sent it to me or when it was, but very good at remembering that a certain email with the information I wanted was the 5th one down on the list, even if I don't remember what the information *was*. I routintely take 5 minutes to search for various permutations of phrases that are close to what I am looking for, but don't actually exist, until I find the right message. This is frustrating.

As computers move to search-based interfaces as opposed to directory/filetree based structures, it's becoming harder for me to find things and organize my files, not less difficult, because the signal-to-noise ratio seems so unstructured to me--a search turns up 15 things I don't want along with the one thing I do, whereas in a file folder with 16 files in it I can scroll to the thing I want every time.

So--what have others' experiences been with trying to whittle down your inbox to no emails and responding to or archiving the rest? Does anyone have my particular problem re: search vs. folders? Anyone found a way around it?

It's been a good technique for me at work to respond to everything as it comes in, but I can't and don't always want to do that with personal emails.

6.) Contact TIAA Cref again because my IRA information packet fell into a black hole

I should do this today.

7.) Fix credit card Now I need to fix all the autobilling. Sigh.

In the meantime, what kinds of things shoud I put on my website? Suggestions welcome.
You, internet and friends, are my audience, after all.

Thanks for the suggestions, friends.