The Twelve Blogs of Christmas... #10

     In the tenth blog of Christmas, my blogger gave to me,  at-TEN-tion to detail, 9 musicians playing, 8 important events, 7-ty degrees, 6 guards a-guarding, 5 reso-luuu-tions...4 days to New Years, 3 golf stories, 2 Christmas wishes, and the story of HCG...

      Attention to detail...Easy to say, but difficult at times to provide.  These days I find myself losing track of the details with the many projects and undertakings that I plan and have thrust upon me at work.  I was never the most organized person to begin with, so multi-tasking can be pretty confusing when I need to do it.  However, with the introduction of this new diet regimen and work out schedule that I began last month, I find that I am preparing better and becoming more organized with each passing day.  Instead of food shopping and just putting stuff in the fridge, I am cutting and pre-measuring vegetables and meat and storing them in the fridge so that meal prep is much quicker.  I am planning menus and meal choices in advance to avoid just grabbing junk to eat.  And this prep and planning is spilling over into other areas of my life also.  I am more organized with everyday things at work and chores at home.  I take notes and prepare lists for shopping and chores so that my time is not wasted wandering around the store and buying everything except what I went to the store to buy in the first place...(which happened more than just once).  I have a small notebook (Alzheimer's pad) that I keep and write down web sites and events that I might want to research and things I need to brief my guards about for certain events... I find it is a necessary evil as I get older...(I may start to write down where I put my keys because I can never find them, especially when I'm in a hurry).

     I also use it to write down ideas for these blogs... (I told you it would be harder to find material as the number reached twelve, but we will persevere).  These new found organizational and time management techniques are freeing up my time to pursue my newly minted resolutions and goals and that can't be a bad thing.  The days off will come to end soon because work will rear its ugly head and I'll be busy with the Barrett-Jackson Car Auction, Waste Management Phoenix Open and the Accenture Match Championships this month and February.  Plus, there will be a myriad of events at the Convention Center to fill in the blanks between those events.  With the utter collapse of the Jets both on and off the field and with them not even backing into the playoffs, the time I would have watched the playoffs is now free... (I will still watch some of the games, but not all).  Freeing myself from watching television is a constant battle and I will pay particular at-TEN-tion to doing that.  Nothing ruins plans and schedules more than mindless hours parked on the couch watching what my Dad referred to as the "boob tube" and "idiot box".  The less time I spend in front of the TV, the more time I have to enlighten (I hope) and entertain you in these blogs with my various ramblings and misadventures...