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\nLani and the kids
\n19 May 2007<\/p>\n
\nLani and the kids
\n19 May 2007<\/p>\n
When you have two preschool children, time becomes your most precious commodity.\u00c2\u00a0 They are both asleep right now, and I think, “Do I balance the check register?\u00c2\u00a0 Do I clean the kitchen?\u00c2\u00a0 Do I write a blog entry?\u00c2\u00a0 Do I chop vegetables for tonight’s dinner?”\u00c2\u00a0 There’s too much to do and way too little time.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past few years, spare time has become something\u00c2\u00a0to be treated\u00c2\u00a0with reverence and gratitude.<\/p>\n
And I have too many projects I want to do.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what is in “Japanese Schoolgirl Watch” in the June issue of Wired:<\/p>\n
The Nintendo Life Coach<\/strong>
\nGals in Japan are using Nintendo DS to do way more than play with Mario. A flood of femme-focused self-help software now runs on the touchscreen handheld. Female Power Emergency Up! DS<\/span> promises to “Change your destiny in three months!” by measuring skills in love, fashion, beauty, diet, and fortune-telling(?!), then challenging girls to increase their scores.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWell, I tell you what, that got my mind buzzing.\u00c2\u00a0 I would LOVE to write some silly and yet oddly compelling little program like that!\u00c2\u00a0 I showed it to Matt and said, “What about an RSS feed self-help game that people could play on their cellphones?”<\/p>\n
So… yet another project.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 But yet another super-fun<\/em> project!<\/p>\n
However, in the real world of children, bills, and a messy house, I have Deb and carloads of teenagers visiting next Friday. (I’m really really looking forward to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Deb and her entourage of brilliant, exuberant, wonderful teenagers is always fun to have for a visit.)\u00c2\u00a0 And I want my house to be clean for their visit.\u00c2\u00a0 So that mundane, not-so-fun project is my current project.<\/p>\n
But I am constantly sidetracked.\u00c2\u00a0 So I’m trying to tell myself, in the voice of Gold Five from Star Wars, “Stay on target.”\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe the voice of Will Farrell as Mugatu\u00c2\u00a0in Zoolander, “Do not be distracted by the beautiful celebrities.”<\/p>\n
If I stay focused, surely I can clean a single house in a week… surely.<\/p>\n
Just in case you<\/em> don’t have the voice of Gold Five or Mugatu in your head, I’m posting the mp3s. Then, when you are trying to stay focused, you’ll be able to play back these encouraging words from your memory (you have to click the play button twice):<\/p>\n
Gold Five:
\n[audio:http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/audio\/target.mp3]<\/p>\nMugatu:
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