November 5th, 2009
Wishing
Things I’d rather be doing right now:
- Early breakfast in Hawaii over looking the pool/ocean.
- Contemplating room service from a super comfy bed in Vegas.
- Crawling back into my own bed to sleep all morning.
November 2nd, 2009
Listing
If you were to crack my head open and peer into my brain, you would see stacks and stacks of lists. Lists and lists of lists. It’s my default coping mechanism and I often wish there was an easy way to just get them all OUT of my head and on to paper. Or disk. Maybe if I could do that, there would be a little more room for more productive things.
What? You don’t believe me that I think in lists? Here’s a peak at what is currently floating around… Rooms to vacuum, Groceries to buy, General errands to be completed, Things I should do more of, Things I should do less of, Areas needing organizing, Bathrooms to be cleaned, Friends to email/call/see, Places I wish I could go, Things I wish I was doing, Laundry to be sorted/washed/folded/put away, Menus to plan, Tasks to tackle first thing at work tomorrow morning, etc. And so on and on and on and on and on…
Colorful, isn’t it? And cluttered. The librarian hidden in me wants to sort and label and file every last one.
Without fail, it always seems that at the end of the day the only list that I’ve tackled goes something like this:
- Get out of bed. Ugh.
- Breakfast, lunch made, bags packed.
- Everybody loaded into the car, transported, dropped off.
- Work, work, work.
- Grab lunch.
- Work, work, work.
- Everybody picked up, transported back home.
- Something, ANYTHING for dinner.
- Bedtime for the kids and bath only when absolutely required. Ahem. Mental note, no yogurt for Caroline–it almost always results in a bath these days.
- Collapse on the couch watching bad TV and try not to think about the dishes on the table, lists for tomorrow, or the nagging feeling that I will never make any progress.