No you aren’t reading that wrong. When I wake up in the morning there are basically 10 bonafide things that will keep me from doing everything anything on my to-do list. I’m sharing them in case you pull the same crap want to improve your life.
And these are in no particular order, because that would be silly. They are simultaneous equations.
1. Snooze Button: BANG****BANG****ok maybe I don’t bang on the snooze button, but I have learned that if the kids don’t hear me moving downstairs, they are less likely to wake up and make me do stuff. So I use it until at least I hear them stir.
2. Make lists: The more lists you make, the harder it is to finish any one list, let alone any item on the list. I think lining your cabinets with post it notes is another good technique for totally overwhelming you. And ours include spanish translation just in case.
3. AIS: ..this is from the Raymond show. My A is In the Seat on the couch most of the day. It’s getting a nice dent which is hard to move out of. I have to use stomach muscles that i don’t have to get out of the crater. So I don’t move.
4. SKYPE: I have 14 rooms going on at any one time, and I could spend all day moving from one to the other. And do.
5. Dental Surgery: Has been kicking my trash for about a year now. I thought getting the tooth finally pulled would take this off the list, but it’s only given me something else to whine about.
6. Hand your kids the car keys…and your ex-husband too. I’m loaning cars, letting my kids take the keys, and basically stranding myself at home. So errands basically don’t get taken care of. We are basically desperately low on paper towels now. Hai, who delivers?
7. Take an “interest” in reality tv. It’s on 24 hours a day. I can watch Big Brother After Dark from midnight to 3 am, get up and watch some episodes of Project Runway, Top Chef, or P Diddy’s Starmaker. Reduces the need to think as you watch.
8. Become a friend of the fruit fly: If they don’t bother you, you don’t have to worry about the pizza the kids left in the basement.
9. Rewash the laundry because you can’t remember which basket is clean, and which is dirty. Maybe that’s a function of being 48, but unless it smells, I have a hard time remembering if whites or darks are the dirty ones. Maybe a post it note *in English* on the basket would help, but *see #2*
10. Subscribe to every newsletter, every mailing list * I love you Macy’s, Amazon, and Kraft * so you have 12,578 emails as of the writing of this post to sort through. I’M READY TO DELETE THEM ALL AND START OVER!
Do you feel a little better? What is on your list that you will ignore whine about pretend you are too old to remember take charge of? Good luck and have a fun non-productive day…. *skype me, k?*
#9 happens here A LOT!
can you believe I have never skyped…
at least now reading this I dont feel so alone
K.. I’m not eating the leftover pizza part.. but the rest.. I’m soo with you.. Add to the list: chasing down google alerts of my photos in flickr on other people’s sites! Did you see that one of mine..?
Thanks for the laughs!
I have more nonproductive days than I would like to admit.
What causes most of them is a little black min pin dog who doesn’t like to be disturbed when he falls asleep on my lap.
Hopefully when we get our new adult male trained German Shepherd named Stryker on Sept. 5th, the min pin will have a buddy and not think he has to be on my lap all of the time. Besides I’ll have to interact with the new dog so he keeps his command skills active and will be the type of dog we purchased him for. With the new dog I will feel comfortable taking the dogs for a walk. We have so many sexual crime adult males that have been released out of jail and back into our community that I have felt uncomfortable doing that in the past. The reason I know this, is they are on a list that we can view from our Sheriff’s Dept..
Well, I always get more productive when the temperature outside gets a little cooler, so Sept. will be coming up soon, and I’ll get busy then and until then a little black min pin is currently again sleeping on my lap not wanting to be disturbed.