Nanazo's diary

I think that to prioritize what needs to be taken care of first is the very first step of our jobs. We often have to keep several balls in the air on the job, and it is not always right that they should be done in order they come in.

One of my co-workers is not good at prioritizing. He often leaves important jobs and gets done unimportant ones done first. Recently, I am sometimes troubled by him... Sigh.

I know that it is difficult to take time out of our hectic schedule to prioritize our jobs. However, it surely helps us in terms of results. As it is said, "The shortest way round is the longest way home." I have to drive it home to him, but it is quite a difficult job, I think. It is because he does not listen to what others say.

Would you recommend any great way to me? If you come up with any good ideas, please let me know.

【Notes】
We usually pluralize idea in come up with any good ideas / have any good ideas. Alternately we could change any to a and say come up with a good idea / have a good idea.
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My husband and I have been paying off our mortgage for a long time. The interest on the mortgage is supposed to be revised in March of next year.
I have set up a repayment plan that was for April of next year onward. I made it about four months ago.

Yesterday I was browsing through some websites that had well documented information about interest rates. Those sites said that market mortgage rates had already risen above the rate which I expected when I made the repayment plan. Alas! There is over half a year still to go! The scheme comes crashing down...probably, we will have to prolong the repayment period.

Now I am worried how high the rate will go and how long the extra term of payment will be. I feel a bit depressed.


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My boss became a dad yesterday.

Last Wednesday, he said that it was one week past the due date and his wife went into the hospital. However, we finally ended up not hearing any good news from him by the end of last week. I was worried about his wife.

Today, he said that she had suffered from labor pain for three days and nights. Oh, three days and nights! It is absolutely too painful to imagine.

My labor was pretty quick and easy. My contractions did not start until I was given labor induction in the hospital and my daughter was born five hours after I felt the first contraction.My boss said that his wife was also given labor induction. However, her labor was not easy like mine.I felt a bit sorry for her, but maybe she has already forgotten the pain. There is no doubt now she is reveling in her happiness in hugging her first baby.

I wish the baby boy a bright future.


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As I wrote yesterday, I enjoyed swimming in a public pool with my family.

This morning, I was surprised to have found a ghost in a mirror. My left eye has become puffy.
I visited a doctor before going to the office. The doctor said that there was a possibility that I got a swimming-pool conjunctivitis. She said that it will take about two weeks until my eye will get well.
I have to put medicine in my eye every two hours. What a bother!

I think it was good that my daughter did not get it. I hope that I will not give it to her. I will pay the closest attention.
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We had our last enjoyment of a swimming pool today.

The swimming season has just finished. Alas! It was pretty hard to see it end.
I am grateful for those pools and the sea to have entertained my daughter. Thank you, and see you next year!
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My family and I are going to a circus this evening.
Here is its Homepage on the internet. It says that they have a cat circus in the program. I am looking forward to seeing it very much!
Are there any other jobs that are more difficult than drilling cats hard in a circus? I am sure there aren't!

Our seats are in the front row of the theater. Now I can hardly wait for the starting time.

【Notes】
Here vs. There
You already understand very well that here is for something close to you and there is for something farther away. It might then seem logical that when talking about another website, you'd use there, right? Well, in this case, you're not actually talking about the website itself, but your link to the website. And since the link is right on your own site, here is the word needed. Basically, Here is its homepage is the same as saying Here is a link to its homepage.

Example:
Here is one of my favorite online dictionaries. There you can find simple definitions for almost any word. (Here refers to my link to the dictionary; there refers to the dictionary site itself.)
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If everyone would ask to others, "Is there anything I can do for you?", we would be happier in my office. However, now our hands are full and we do not have the bandwidth. We cannot care about others. I think that having a chat for a while is pretty helpful to refresh ourselves even while working, but of course now we leave no room to do so.

Anyway, my co-workers and I managed to have gotten through the worst of this month. I feel relieved at the moment.

Now I am trying to create standards for some of our jobs. Probably, the rules will be a kind of savior for us. The power will be still weak at first, though. I have to improve it step by step. I wish I had more skills, but it is an impossible dream. I will do all I can do. I hope it will help us as much as possible.

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Thank you for visiting here, but I will take a day off of writing today's blog entry. It is because now I have a migraine. I'm sorry about that.
My present migraine is not heavy. Please do not worry about that.

By the way, I was able to spell the word, "migraine", without using any dictionary. My migraine made me remember the spelling. There is no doubt that everything means something to us.
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Today, I received a correction of yesterday's entry. I could not help but scream to see it..."Ahhhhhhh!!"

I wrote "Why I do not like him?" Of course, the correct sentence is "Why do I not like him?" We, Japanese people, learn sentences like this when we are junior-high students.
In addition, I wrote "he/she's"! What is this?

I am now awfully embarrassed. I wish I could sink through the floor...
I do not know why I made such mistakes. I wrote them without thinking. Those mistakes brought home to me that my English study does not cut it.

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