31.7.08

Donnie, Thursday

1. Rough morning run.
2. Can he write 2,000 words today?
3. Run
4. Lunchy-poo
5. Work
6. Get home late from Dog Yoga--hope Zola is ready for this.

Kayla, Thursday

1. Get my windshield fixed... grrrrr
2. Final public ally interview
3. Submit ranking forms to PA office
4. Get paperwork together for an afternoon of clients
5. Housing Committee follow-up items
6. Get check request signed for client's rental assistance
7. Meet with 3 clients to do income calculator and budget form
8. Drop off bed bug information and going away envelope to N
9. Home/ Kathy Smith exercise tape/ Indian for dinner
10. Maybe a round of jeopardy!
11. Enjoy some leftover birthday cake and FINISH my David Sedaris book
12. Make coffee before i go to bed

30.7.08

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Work and Read until three--Lost In The City
2. Drive to Indy
3. Celebrate Craig's birthday--the first time I have done this in 10 years! I feel old.
4. Return to my sleeping beauty
5. Slumber Party

Kayla, Wednesday


1. Deliver foreclosure outreach flyers door-to-door (did I mention there is a heat alert?)
2. Work on Tenant Education packet
3. Site meeting at 1:00
4. Do a budget/spending tracker with client at 2:00
5. Bank, library
6. Home/ work out/ take zola to the park/ eggs for dinner
7. When you are engulfed in flames...

29.7.08

Donnie, Tuesday

1. Wrote 500
2. Work (I read books now while I work!)
3. Earth Drummers Practice
4. Dinner w/ my sweet
5. Meeting

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Housing Team meeting at 9:30. Discuss: PNC bank financial literacy classes, Town Hall meeting on healthy homes, painters insurance, partnering with hispanic social services for tenant ed, NY Bank.
2. Interview ally candidate
3. Get trash can info to J
4. Make sure client's son will qualify for subsidized housing
5. Homing from work on my lunch break: Find out why our DUKE bill was $0 (I've seen too many people not follow up and get stuck with it later), try to register for Price Hill Pacer, see if my insurace will cover a cracked windshield, make doctor's appointment
6. Home/Work out/ Make pasta with red peppers
7. Jeapordy!
8. Work on my David Sedaris book

28.7.08

Kayla, Back At It

I'm going to have to move quick today to get all this finished!

1. Return lots of email messages, phone calls from being away. This will take longer that it seems like it should
2. Work on Sedamsville building list update
3. Call client to schedule in-home tenant ed
4. Make chart to rank allies, call back two more for interviews
5. Call M to get her into new houses
6. Prep for LPH Housing Committee tonight--minutes, agendas, problem property update, resource guide. argh.
7. Interview ally candidate
8. Call for AAC articles
9. Bank
10. Library
11. LPH Housing Committee
12. Who will get home first to make a frozen pizza? TBD!
13. Jon and Katie and their babies!

23.7.08

Kayla, Wednesday

1. Instruct high school students on the art of taping and painting
2. Interview potential ally at 11:00
3. Get served by the upper management at 12:00
4. Meet with PNC bank about financial education for clients at 3:00
5. Public Nuisance Hearing at 6:30
6. Maybe leave for Michigan at 8:00 or 8:30

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Pack
2. Sweep
3. Dog food
4. Cat box
5. Secure Attic
6. Office Space
7. Request Feline Assistance
8. Work
9. Leave?
10. Ah

22.7.08

Kayla, Tuesday

1. We have a 100 (okay 25) volunteers here, ripping up carpet, painting and landscaping. Yay!
2. Had our Housing Team meeting
3. Going to look at the new Model Houses
4. 2 interviews with Public Ally finalists
5. Going to the Community Development forum at 5:30
6. Pizza?

21.7.08

Donnie, Monday

1. Shake these caffeine jitters and read a few pages of "The Woman In The Dunes"
2. Work at the spot
3. Dinner and Jeopardy
4. Writing time-- maybe even at the expense of J and K+8

Kayla, Monday

1. Fax landlord statement to property manager
2. Call Neave landlord
3. Client catch-up
4. Reserve van for August 5th
5. Send out Housing Committee agenda
6. Ask Emily about trip #2 to the convent
7. Mail our rent check
8. Maybe take client to look at apartments
9. Finish resource guide
10. Finish Sedamsville property list
11. Library
12. Work out/ dinner/ Jeopardy

20.7.08

Donnie, Sunday



1. Phone Call With Brother
2. Work
3. Grocery
4. 15 miler

19.7.08

Kayla, Saturday



If I don't have a plan I might just surf the web all day...

1. Go to work to see whose resumes were submitted for the PA job
2. While I'm there add sale date and price to the problem property spreadsheet
3. Finish the resource guide for resident code enforcement
4. Come home, maybe have some rice for dinner
5. Tics were already purchased for The Dark Knight so I think I have to go see it

18.7.08

Kayla, Friday



No Work today!

1. Work at Panera
2. Work on my tan
3. Work out
4. Work on getting Maggie a place to live :-)

17.7.08

Kayla, Thursday



1. Get Housing Committee agenda to B
2. Check on crime stats for resident association
3. Take client to look at apartments
4. 1-2-1 with resident next door
5. Work on Sedamsville building tracker
6. Lead work (supposed to be done Tuesday--I have no explanation for the delay)
7. Supposed to go to YPKC meeting downtown--I think I'll skip it
8. Library
9. Work out
10. Dinner: Indian and rice? Omelettes? Frozen Pizza? Veggie Burgers? It's rare that we get to Thursday and have four choices left... what happened???

16.7.08

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Release some turkey from the zip lock and place it on bread.
2. Release myself to work.
3. Release myself for home.

Kayla, Wednesday



1. Get paperwork for Purcell landlord
2. Get up to Western Hills to get coffee and pastries for the Resident Association
3. Get agendas and housing forum flyers for tenants
4. Get myself to the meeting by 11:00
5. Get ready for site meeting at 1:00
6. Get my clothes changed
7. Get over to the other side of town
8. Get a Public Ally (convince them that, YES they want the job I'm offering them!)
9. Get home to workout
10. Get leftovers heated up for dinner
11. Get my book finished to take back to the library

15.7.08

Donnie, Tuesday

1. Gatsby!
2. Work
3. Drummers
4. Dinner: Sorry that you're solo sweet.
5. Gatsby!

Kayla, Tuesday


1. Deliver the Resident Association flyers I was supposed to do yesterday.
2. Prepare for Public Allies/ partner organization matching fair.
3. Fill out survey that I was supposed to do yesterday.
4. Meet with Carol.
5. Follow up on lead work from last week.
6. Return about a million rent calls.
7. Home/Maybe some pilates/dinner solo

14.7.08

Donnie, Monday

1. Ran
2. Ate
3. Writing-2,000 words or 2 hours which ever comes first.
4. Lunching: 1 pound of turkey or 10,000 calories which ever comes first.
5. Shopping, maybe get one of those V-neck t-shirts I like so much.
6. Writing-Another 1,000 if I can do it
7. Running-Another 4 miles, maybe a couple with Kay?
8. Evening festivities: shows about families with too many kids, books about rich guys named Gatsby, arguments with pets (Zola) about the upcoming election.

Kayla, Monday

1. Emails
2. Deliver flyers for Resident Association Meeting
3. Send out request for Public Nuisance Hearing Letters
4. Work on agenda for Resident Association
5. Finish questionaire w/ B
6. Call new client about subsidized housing
7. Follow up from Tenant Ed.
8. Partners meeting at 4:00
9. Pay my phone bill
10. Home/workout/ dinner
11. Jon and Kate

12.7.08

Kayla, Saturday

1. Teach tenant education class
2. Workout
3. Picnic at Ault Park

11.7.08

Kayla, Friday

1. Make new money management booklet for clients
2. Write letter to tenant's landlord
3. Start survey for N's research project
4. Make reminder calls for class tomorrow
5. Visit Warsaw tenants
6. Tour of the "covenant" and "supper" w/ Sister J.
7. Greet donnie as he returns from the levy

10.7.08

Kayla, Thursday

1. Finish spreadsheet for Tenant Ed budget forms
2. Work on housing data for June/July
3. Make charts/sign in sheet for Tenant Ed class
4. Send Resident Association flyer to J for approval
5. Get in touch with client about eviction case
6. Call person who nomiated a house for house of the month
7. Lunch w/ B
8. Work on United Way Report
9. Visit tenants to talk about upcoming meeting with their landlord
10. Planning meeting for August Housing Forum at WIN
11. Home/Pizza/Read

9.7.08

Kayla, Wednesday Night

1. Too busy to do a to do list at work today (it's my one-year anniversary of starting my job)
2. Workout--jog or do the exercise video I borrowed from the library
3. Maybe turn some AC on--it's hot in here!
4. Dinner--linguine w/zuchs and spicy sauce?
5. Finish my self-evaluation of my year-one performance to turn in tomorrow
6. Read: Finish the last five pages of "We Thought You'd Be Prettier" and start my new Ramsey book.

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Work
2. Get those words down.
3. 8 whole hours.

8.7.08

Donnie, Tuesday

1. Very nice morning run with Kayla.
2. Need to start writing!
3. Lunch/Cleaning Break
4. Writing Part 2
5. Maybe jog realllly easy?
6. dinner
7. Number crunching
8. slumber

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Call youth worker to talk about suggestions from Community Council last night
2. Temporarily suspend my 401k contributions (according to step 2 of the Ramsey plan)
3. Housing Team meeting at 9:30
4. Whoops I forgot to take lunch
5. Door-to-door lead organizing w/Legal Aid
6. Outcome reporting training session at the United Way
7. Home/workout/dinner
8. Financial planning with my in-home assistant :-)

7.7.08

Donnie, Monday

1. Reading- Herzog
2. Writing- 2 hours
3. Grocery Shopping
4. Clean up around the house
5. Write some more
6. Track meet at Mt. St. Joe's
7. Watch that show with all those kids

Kayla, Monday

1. Get Donnie to write a blog post
2. Meeting at Price Hill Will to talk about the Homes at Hillside Place
3. Dress rehearsal for our all-staff meeting performance of The Wizard of Price Hill
4. Make enough Housing Program brochures for everyone on staff
5. Try not to forget my lines...
6. My Year-One Evaluation with my boss
7. Prepare for Community Council
8. Community Problem Oriented Policing Meeting
9. Community Council meeting
10. Hopefully home in time for Jon and Kate Plus 8 at 9!

3.7.08

Kayla, Thursday

Back to work!
1. Return many many phone calls, read many many emails... this could take until noon at least.
2. Take care of check request
3. Visit client in Covington, take her picture for our United Way report
4. Send Building Complaint blank form to myself
5. Go home and workout
6. Back to the west side for Sedamsville Building Committee
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