Anyone else having a hard time getting motivated today?

I had a burst of energy and cleaned up my office really well, but the rest of my house needs my attention and I'm not having much luck separating my ass fom my chair, even though I'm bored.

Any tricks for getting going or sympathy from people dealing with the same issue this afternoon?

It's already night here and was raining all day. And it's Saturday. Motivation was defeated. ;)

I *should* be doing, like homework...although I'm very motivated to do things I *shouldn't*, like write and post on DU! :bounce:

And in answer to your question... yes. :(

bnut I work from home so I could be multi-tasking right now. I'm not even monotasking at the moment. ;)

but I've got the sniffles, so I'm not too bothered about my lack of achievement today. :hi:

The most productive thing I've done all day is make a sandwhich.

So much flirting...so little else getting done.

:hi:

I think I'm going to save it for a rainy day. I think I'll go to the beach instead.

Too much flirting to be done here. :)

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I hear your sick.

Even if I am up to it, the last thing I would want would be to gift it to you.

Please accept a *smooch* from a distance. :)

Feel better.

I'm sure I will soon. :)

I feel the same exact way. I have about 5 tests coming up in the early part of this coming week and I know I need to study. I'm just too washed out to be able to concentrate right now though. Thought I would take this day to rest and then stick my nose back in the books tomorrow. I did cook some stir fry earlier, but since then even warming up some spaghettios might as well have been calculating quantum physics problems for me. I'm a master at killing time, so today is mine to massacre. Some days you just have to take a day, or the rest of the day, for yourself. Screw it. There is plenty of time during the rest of the week for motivation. I've got no motivation normally though. :shrug:

My significant other went away this weekend with some buddies and although I'm happy with him I was thinking how nice it will be for us to have break from each other and all of the things I would do. Well, it is now after 5:00 pm and I'm still in my pajamas. All I could manage to do today was play a game of Scrabble with my son and almost fell asleep during that. I did mop the kitchen floor and wash a load of clothes. That's it. The rest of the day I've been lounging around watching music videos. I want to go out to eat or to the movies, but I'm too lazy to shower, dress and go out in the cold. Hahahaha!

:hug: All kinds of sympathy from me.

I've heard Crystal Meth is good for energy...but I wouldn't recommend it. ;)

:D

while I am staring off into space. There is no hope for people like me. ;) We can sit and be lazily bored together. Your thread really struck a note with me, because I have tons of paperwork to do and here I sit. It's almost reverse OCD.

I'm going to try to get at least some of the household stuff done then. I figure if I fold the baskets of clothes in the liging room, take out the trash and make the beds that's a pretty good start. I can try to get more done tomorrow since I won't have to balance it all with work.

I was up late doing laundry and I'm sore from falling asleep on the sofa so I shouldn't push myself too hard today.

I need a nap myself to recover from the nap I took last night while MrG was playing cards. But, if you do fold the laundry...you will just be forcing me to fold my laundry. That would be bad.

I'll put the shirts on hangers before they wrinkle and the rest can wait until tomorrow. :)

Dr Pepper especially. Of course, my aunt says I have the shakes most of the time. She says I am like a junkie without my Dr Pepper and even for a few minutes after I get my fix.

:hi:

Long time no see. I've been up to my ears in math, the funny fourletter word kind that uses letters. I'm honestly waiting for my english teacher to start telling us to organize words into equations. I can't remember them all.

How have you been?

Right now I have the sniffles, but I will be okay soon. Nice to see you!

I'm no expert on english, but I used to be quite good at maths. Feel free to ask something if ever you want to! :hi:

That is the type of math I am trying to learn right now. I'm pretty good at the basic number related maths, but when they start throwing u's and v's and 2 line long equations with nothing but letters, I tend to freak. Plus there is a time limit on the tests. I can do the homework, but I freeze on the tests, sadly.

Hope you start feeling better soon. My teachers in both my Pre-calc trig and English classes yesterday were having trouble with their throats and couldn't hardly talk. I felt the same way, but I didn't have to stand up in front of the class and talk for 50 minutes. I couldn't have. They sounded like they were getting laryngitis or something.

:)

Is there any way I can get faster at it?

That was the first thing I ever remembered about trig. Sine = opposite/hypotenuse, cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse, tangent = opposite/adjacent.

Getting more advanced, there are some "identities" that we remember:

sin(A + B) = (sin(A) * cos(B)) + (sin(B) * cos(A))
cos(A + B) = (cos(A) * cos(B)) - (sin(A) * sin(B))

also, sin(-A) = -sin(A) because sine has rotative symmetry about the origin,
and cos(-A) = cos(A) because cosine has reflective symmetry about the origin

Therefore:

sin(A - B) = (sin(A) * cos(B)) - (sin(B) * cos(A))
cos(A - B) = (cos(A) * cos(B)) + (sin(A) * (sin(B))

I don't know how advanced your maths course is. If it is only basic then you probably won't need to know the identities.

along with algebraic trig equations, the sum-product identities, double and half angle identities. I'm confused just trying to remember the terminology. What would cause me to freak and my mind to just shut down when dealing with math? I'm fairly bright at most other things.

and not being able to grok it does not mean you are dumb. Plenty of clever people are not much good at maths, and quite a few people who are good at maths aren't much good at much else.

But see, these identities are just rote learning. You can do it! Just write them down over and over again until you can reproduce them without having to look them up.

Exactly the same way I got through my chemistry exams. :)

math the same way I would any other memorization type situation. Thanks. I needed a good idea to help me develop some confidence before this test. I think the confidence part really does work with me.

And don't hesitate to ask me if there's anything you don't understand. I will try my best to explain it to you. Maths was always one of my things.

Unless I'm drinking coffee — half-caf in the morning, decaf at night. Otherwise, there's a DrP (pronounced "durp") at arm's reach.

:hi:

Oops, that freudian slip was just too good to edit after spell check. :evilgrin:

No other soft drink comes close to Dr Pepper. Did you know my mother used to put Dr Pepper in my bottle when I was a baby? She alternated between Dr Pepper, beer, and milk when I was little. I had a good childhood until she weened me. :P

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And, yes — a most memorable typo. :thumbsup:

I'm just trying to stay warm!

I've got a philosophy/religion paper due on Wednesday. I can't get myself to complete that last half of a page plus the bibliography. Every once in a while, I'll click over and write a sentence or two...then get distracted again. :shrug:

It should be finished later tonight. I just don't have the will to type it out in one big chunk.

I still have the sticky film of fluoride on my teeth, though.

At any rate, I'm feeling more motivated now than I was before. When I feel my energy is flagging, I get up and do a quick cardio workout or take a walk.

for 6 hours, with 2 more to go. Not that I've accomplished much.

When I get home, I absolutely HAVE to clean. I've been procrastinating that all week.

So...I've been somewhat productive today, but out of necessity, not motivation.

I just don't want to be at work right now! :( :mad:

Which in my case means Excedrin.

I'm a lightweight. :blush:

Which sucks, because I have a lot of work to do! :(

It comes in spurts....

My motivation, that is....

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Come on baby make it hurts so good...

cleaned the litter boxes, dropped off one kid, got the oil changed, did the grocery shopping, started dinner, picked up one kid to drop her off elsewhere and I'm pooped. maybe tomorrow. Try procrastinating. That usually works for me. What really needs to be done? Enjoy the sunshine and try not to let the little stuff take away from that. ANd hey, the office is in good shape, hang out there!

I put the kitchen cabinets back together today after painting them yesterday. I replaced all the outlet and switch plates in two rooms. I put together a new loft bed for my daughter, and set up the extra bedroom as a guest room and den. I helped sort laundry and folded and put it away. I went shopping. Oh, and I made pasta with italian sausage for dinner.

Now I'm relaxing...

RL

the entire day, and I have. I've only tidied up the kitchen and nothing else. I'm not feeling the greatest today, maybe that has something to do with it. NO energy to speak of, no motivation, .. just really really blah. I need something, but i'm not sure what.

aA

I had no trouble getting up to go to the gym this morning, but finishing school work? Ugh...I put that off as long as I could. A 9am Sunday deadline snapped me to work though. Now I'm done, so I can play! :bounce: