31.3.09

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Catch up on emails from Fri-Mon
2. Housing Team meeting at 9:30
3. Work on RFP for UW from 10:30-12:00
4. Coffee with Mary Anne to dicuss HAC
5. Start working on Helping Hands
6. Write letter for homebuyer
7. Meet with client
8. Home/ work out/ make People Food
9. Get in another hour of AAC work
10. Read "The Poisonwood Bible"

26.3.09

Kayla, Thursday

1. The email never stops! I can't keep up
2. Practice for presentation tonight
3. Pick up insurance card from Tina
4. Remember to put Public Nuisance Hearing letters in my binder
5. Play catch up with the things on my to-do list that I didn't get to this week
6. Dr. at 2:15
7. Back to work, board meeting at 6:00
8. Home for dinner by 8:30
9. Probably fall right asleep!

Donnie's Reaction To The List

25.3.09

Donnie, Thursday

1. Clean up all the dog poop in the yard and bag the yard waste
2. Sweep the floors, including using the extension hose to get the edges of the carpet
3. Finish the taxes
4. Walk the dog
5. Do the dishes
6. Make a few meals for the freezer
7. Sharpen the knives
8. Clean inside the microwave
9. Apply for some jobs on the "The Ladders"
10. Watch "Little Miss Perfect" and rub my wife's feet all night

Kayla, Wednesday

1. Phone calls, emails, faxes for about 30 minutes
2. Take application down to housing office
3. Write the script for our PowerPoint, add two slides
4. Pick up projector and laptop
5. Latino Organizing Meeting
6. Site Meeting
7. Figure out what we're going to do with the Homelessness Prevention proposal...
8. Home/work out for real this time/ shower
9. Spinach Casserole for dinner
10. AAC stuff

24.3.09


Kayla and her new boyfriend Vito

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Peter Block meeting from 8:00-9:30 (and eat breakfast)
2. Housing Team meeting from 9:30-10:30
3. Catch up with Barb from 10:30-11:00
4. Return phone calls/ clean out inbox from 11:00-12:00
5. Work on PowerPoint Presentation data from 12:00-1:15 (and eat my lunch)
6. Homelessness Prevention Funding meeting at the United Way from 1:30-3:00
7. Back to work, finish up the day from 3:15-5:00
8. Home/work out/shower from 5:00-7:00
9. Reheat Veggie Lasagne for dinner from 7:00-7:30
10. Watch Jeapordy from 7:30-8:00
11. Finish up taxes from 8:00-9:00
12. Toddlers and Tiaras until midnight!!!

23.3.09

Kayla, Monday

1. Sort Price Hill Surveys by address
2. Follow up on People Working Cooperatively applications
3. Outline Housing Program Power Point for Thursday's Board meeting, get data, work on slides (I reserved most of the day for this)
4. Home/ work out/ Indian and veggies for dinner
5. Edit Drug Free projects and Press Release for AAC--send to Bill
6. Season Finale of Jon and Kate. Rumor has it they hate each other and are getting divorced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donnie, Monday

1. 8:45-9:00- Enter Final Grades
2. 9:00-12:00- Write Final Paper
3. 12:00-1:00- Run
4. 1:15-2:00- Edit
5. 2:30-3:00- Drive to Glendale
6. 3:00-7:00- WOrk
7. 7:00-7:20- Drive home
8. 7:30-8:00-Dinner
9. 8:00-9:00- Apply for some jobs
10. 10:00-11:30- Read some Serena (Good recommendation Maggie)

20.3.09

Donnie, Friday

1. Watch basketball


This says it all....




19.3.09

Kayla, Thursday

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..........






































Unfortunately they were all out of "Fighting Violets" shirts the day I happened to have some cash on hand. This will have to do!

Donnie, Thursday

1. Grade papers (ALL OF THEM!)
2. More Hemingway reading and then writing
3. Paper writing?
4. Clean up around the house
5. Watching the games
6. Greet and judge Kayla as she walks through the door.
7. Party: watch Michigan thrash Clemson!!!
8. More reading and probably some convincing Kayla to watch the games.

Kayla, Thursday

1. Housing Committee minutes (1 hour)
2. Lead letter (30 minutes)
3. Public Nuisance Hearing Letter (30 minutes)
4. Rent Assistance Criteria (30 minutes)
5. Make Tenant Calls for Saturday's meeting (20 minutes)
6. Copy Birth Certificate to finish client's housing application (5 minutes)
7. Email CAGIS to explain our process (5 minutes)
8. Data/ client follow up (1 hour)
9. Check Ally PISDs (10 minutes)
10. Pick up my car from getting an oil change
11. Home/ pilates/ FFYS dinner
12. No more Toddlers and Tiaras or Little Miss Perfect. Enough already!!

18.3.09

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Grade 5 papers--no matter what
2. Read a random story to break up the day
3. Outline ROPES paper and begin writing: very scary.
4. Grade 5 more papers--no matter what
5. Write 2 letters of recommendation
6. Read another story?
7. Find a doctor who will tell me what's wrong with my Achilles.
8. Cook dinner
9. Recommend a book for Kayla to read next since she loved my last pick so much.
10. Jousting!

Kayla, Wednesday

1. Start typing minutes from Housing Committee
2. Print agendas and sign in sheet for Resident Meeting--order Panera
3. Drive out to Western Hills to pick up coffee and danish
4. Residents Meeting--get application while I'm there
5. Site meeting at 1:00
6. GIS work at 2:30
7. Finish up minutes and follow up
8. Home, maybe work out if my leg doesn't hurt?
9. Donnie's making dinner!!
10. I'd like to finish "The Edible Woman" today. What's next on my reading list?

17.3.09

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Housing Team meeting at 9:30
2. Take back library books, mail rent check
3. Prep for LPH Housing Committee: make sure room will be open, reminder calls, write up arguments FOR supportive housing, Public Nuisance Hearing list, agenda, minutes, problem property list.
4. Clean up my office
5. Housing Committee meeting at 6:00
6. Home/ angel hair pasta and red peppers for dinner/ walk Zo?
7. Toddlers and Tiaras (I'm ashamed!!)

16.3.09

Donnie, Monday

1. Finish my paper
2. Grade five papers
3. Get back to revision of my story
4. Revise some more
5. Try out a jog
6. Revise late into the night and hope for the best.
7. Sleep some time tomorrow.

Kayla, Monday

1. Phone conference about IDA money
2. Call client about non-LPH residents using the funds?
3. Find out about Resident Association emeting
4. Send out LPH Housing Committee reminder
5. Follow up on Resident Association small grant
6. Meet with client about subsidized housing application
7. Go to bank, get rent check
8. Home/ walk dog/ yoga (because I feel like I could be getting a stress fracture)
9. Shrimp casserole for dinner

12.3.09

Donnie, Thursday

1. Finish Edwin Mullhouse
2. Finish Critiques
3. learn grammar
4. workshop
5. drinks?
6. home

Kayla, Thursday

1. Teach tenant ed at the shelter
2. Get letter from Civic for public nuisance hearing tomorrow, prepare my response
3. Talk to P about CPOP
4. Talk to J about viaduct reconstruction
5. Talk to S about application for apartment and Section 8 RTA
6. Tally up t-shirt totals for Helping Hands
7. Meet with the Ohio State Extension curriculum people
8. Follow up on emails, phone calls
9. Depending on when I get done at the Extension maybe come back to work and do follow-up calls
10. Home/ Work out/ People Food for dinner
11. Work on AAC or read The Edible Woman

11.3.09

Kayla, Wednesday

1. Clean out inbox
2. Meet with AMOS community organizer
3. Help Sharon fix the "group send" on her Outlook
4. Send out LPH Housing Committee Agenda
5. Type up notes from yesterday's trip to Indy
6. Client follow-up
7. Site meeting at 1:00
8. Take client to look at apartments
9. Check out angelfoodministries.com
10. Follow up on Tax Prep surveys--calls, etc.
11. Sedamsville Civic Association and Building Committee (all in one! to save me a trip!) tonight at 7:00 until about 9:00
12. Home to a reheated rotini casserole, read a little bit of "The Edible Woman"

Maggie, I finished The Reef. After about 200 pages or so I got into it--not bad.

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Teach and listen to presentations
2. Read an article before class
3. Attend class and discuss that article
4. Go to the library to exchange books
5. Read in the library for a while
6. critiques
7. more reading: Edwin Mullhouse
8. Writing if time
9. prepare casserole

9.3.09

Donnie, Monday

1. Go to Awakenings to develop my Updike paper
2. Head home to read some Witches of Eastwick
3. Finish critiques
4. Apply for jobs and work on my CV
5. Work on Performance Enhancing revision.
6. Dinner
7. More writing

My apologies for taking your keys...

Kayla, Monday

1. Recover from the awful feeling of being late because my keys were missing!!!!!
2. Bind tenant books
3. Print info for Indy trip tomorrow
4. Agenda for LPH Housing Committee
5. Get stamps, mail letters to landlords and LPH homeowners
6. Meet with financial edu. group
7. 6 Month follow ups, put in data
8. Partners meeting at 4:00
9. Home/ work out/ indian for dinner
10. Adopt A Class project template

6.3.09


before



after

Donnie, Friday

1. Procrastinated too long.
2. Outline Updike Paper
3. Research Updike Paper
4. Start Writing Updike Paper (4 pages today, ME#1:or else! ME#2: Or else what? ME#1:Or else you're grounded.ME#1: You never ground me; I'm always allowed to procrastinate.ME#1: This is very true and unfortunate; I have been a very ineffective half of the larger psyche that I populate.)
5. Get caught up on critiques and CR.
6. See Kay Kay's new do!
7. See if ME #2 wins and get out of the house.
8. I will go to bed earlyish.

5.3.09

Kayla, Friday

This is a new one for me... I'm going to make my to-do-list the day BEFORE. No one has ever accused me of being a procrastinator, that's for sure!! (Really this is an excuse to take a break from editing press releases--ugh--for a minute...)

1. Run in the A.M.
2. Work at 10:00
3. Update data, client follow-up
4. Take back my library books and get donuts and juice for Helping Hands
5. Print out Helping Hands project lists, surveys, etc.
6. Bind my Tenant Books that I made today (three cheers for our new copier at work which allows me to copy all 30 books, double sided and collated, without having to do ANYTHING but stick the pages in the slot and punch in the number 30--woohoo!!)
7. Go to my other office (cubicle) to do a bit of AAC work--follow up on press releases, adopter updates, etc.
8. Leave at 2:30 to get my hair cut at Aveda
9. The night will be young and my hair will be short!

Donnie, Thursday

1. Final edit for story--why am I so bad at titles?
2. Type of critiques for stories
3. Grade student papers
4. Begin Withches of Eastwick
5. Off to school for printing/workshop
6. Stop home quick before party
7. Hopefully home really early--I'm on a really bad sleep schedule.

Kayla, Thursday

1. Send out Helping Hands project list
2. Get Sedamsville volunteer registered with the vol. program
3. Follow up with PATH program worker
4. Follow up with AMOS community organizer
5. Follow up with Homeownership Center
6. Finish Affordable Housing 1-Pager (currently a 3-pager)
7. Make appointment for client to see apartment
8. Meet with woman from Peter Block's office
9. Sedamsville housing committee meeting canceled!!!!!
10. Home, work out, leftover soup and crackers for dinner
11. Do some Adopt A Class work: tally Reds ticket request, finish press releases, input new adopter information into database.

4.3.09

Kayla, Wednesday

Sorry for the lack of posts--I've been too busy to even make a list. Things to do have just been flying at me like bullets, no time to write them down. :-)

1. Call County Auditor to try to work out a tax bill for a resident
2. Start pulling together Helping Hands projects
3. Make reminder calls about meeting tonight
4. Follow up on burst pipes
5. Print Hilltop letters to Council
6. Supposed to have CAGIS time if Kurt's not still sick
7. Transition Meeting Preparation Meeting at 10:30
8. Site meeting at 1:00
9. Home at 4:00 to work out
10. Back to Sedamsville for the transition meeting with residents and neighbors
11. Home about 8:30 to a reheated spinach casserole, a clean cat box, my sweet doggy and kitty, and my sweet-o.

2.3.09

Donnie, Monday

1. Teach the (children) ladies and gentlemen.
2. More Blind Assassin.
3. Library research.
4. Job applying.
5. David Maine reading.
6. Home sweet.
7. Bake the enchiladas
8. nap?
9. Writing.
10.Greet Kayla after what she predicts to be a long meeting.
11. Improve on last night's five hours of sleep.

1.3.09

Kay Kay's Big Race


pre-race


post-race (with my prize)
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