Jezebel asked what was the best Thanksgiving TV episode.

Emmett dug into his Friends box set and we watched "The One With All the Thanksgivings" which is pretty great. (Turkey on the head, Chandler with a Flock of Seagulls hairdo...)

Very nice Thanksgiving was had. We finally finally after fifteen years of trying found something that Emmett likes to eat at Thanksgiving besides pie: Duck.

We're back. Emmett's off to snowboard this weekend.

Matilda took her medicine even though she fell asleep on the way home and had to pitch a tiny little fit of how much she hates that medicine. But she took it anyway. Almost done with this course.

She's been so much more cheerful this week. I think we need to be mindful that her feeling icky manifests as nonstop whinefest.

I didn't really need to but I just had a turkey sandwich anyway.

Jessica, Hil, thanks! That's really useful. I appreciate it.

D and I used Wunderlist mostly to communicate and share tasks/lists with each other. But it could definitely be used for business tadk-sharing too.

I set dates for myself with multiple reminders in Google calenders,(bill/e-withdrawal due dates, back up external HD, enter deductions and mileage, etc) and end each day with moving stuff I didn't get done from my paper to-do list to the next days's to-do list. I like paper for to-do lists more than e-verions, because I keep in in front of me all day, I like checking things off, and adding addendums or marking partial progress on things.

First thing I do in the morning is check the to-do. I circle the three biz things I feel are most important, and circle 2 personal things. I try, and some days I HAVE to do more than those five, so I plan my day to make accomplishing them as efficient as possible. And sometimes, I don't get them done perfectly, or catch myself focusing on something else and ask "Is this what I need to be doing right NOW? Or do I add it to the list, and move back or on to a priority.

I take bits and piece from different productivity sites, books, etc. I have authority issues, and anyway, no one thing works for everyone. So U try, tweak, adapt, and toss it if it doesn't work for me.

My problem with paper is carrying and damanging/losing it, really. Aside from the bells and whistles I'm now looking for.

When Filofax first came out, I was a slut for it. I had all that shit. I have all that shit. Black leather folder, stuffed to the gills with the paper version of my phone/and or tablet, really. Mementos, contacts, to-dos, etc. I clutched that stuff close to my heart. But I don't carry that weight around any more, and I don't want to need that bulk. But that's how long I've been trying. It's just much more important now.

and SYMBOLIC BLOOD VIA CRANBERRIES.

There was NO cranberry sauce at the gathering we were at. NONE. I am full of woe, and am going to be buying some from WF in the next few days.

I'm very interested in this conversation about productivity apps and organizing, because I NEED to get on top of that stuff. I've been juggling too many things for too long in a haphazard fashion, and I need to fix that.

I miss my Franklin planner. I loved it so, but the computer is so much more convenient.

We forget the cranberry sauce every year. Mostly because no one eats it, but my mother insists on having it anyway. Although my niece tried it (after my mother jumped up and got it halfway through the meal) and liked it.

I had no cranberries yesterday. Last year my upstairs neighbor made a metric buttload of cranberry sauce and ended up giving containers of it away. While I didn't plan with that in mind, I'm kind of hoping for a similar windfall this year.

I had pumpkin pie for breakfast today. Mmmmmm. Not as good as venison mincemeat pie, but as I'm the only one in this state inclined to eat it, I'm not making a whole pie just for me.

I had apple pie for breakfast.

I do most of my organizing via Outlook, but I have found that I need to change up my system every few months or I'll slack on following it. Having things be 'new' makes me more attentive.

Anne is a woman after my own heart. At least with novelty.

I have no organizational system and my life shows it. I remember liking aspects of GTD a lot, especially in just writing shit down so it could be off my internal perseveration playlist.

I am not good at planners etc and I find I balance a lot of schedules (mine, K's, my kids, the nurse, the 3 behavioral therapists to name a few of my home ones). It's a blessing that my work life is so rarely changeable in terms of schedules.

One of my AP listserv members posted that SATs ARE A good indicator of future success in college (which, from all research I have read is simply no true -- technically GPA is a much better indicator). I really want to write back but I am finding a sense of.... I don't know.. pleasure in being able to say, "Um. Don't need to engage the people in the box on every detail."

Is this actual maturity setting in?