To Don't

[smeddley]

The great think of my Great Big Book of To Do is that I don't lose little scraps of paper all over the house with things to remember scribbled on them. The down side is that it rarely comes out of my work bag, which means I don't see all the things I need to do, which enables me to ignore them.

I've really good at that.

But today I hauled my Great Big Book of To Do out and am going to tackle at least half a dozen things in it. At least. I'm hoping for more like a dozen and a half, but I've been known to be unrealistic.

It's Friday night, I have the house to myself, and I should be able to be productive. The problem is, I never am. I get sidetracked with TV and games and sometimes I just zombie out after the week at work. But this week is going to be different! There's a freshly-brewed pot of coffee and I'm going to start out my productive weekend by procrastinating and typing a to-do list into my blog.

To do tonight

• Clean the dust out of the bathroom - wash the floor, clean off the counter, wash the curtains, put the rugs back down
  
• Laundry, laundry, laundry - clothes (folded and put away!), bed linens, curtains
  
• Dishes! Run the dishwasher, EMPTY it, unload the dish drainer, wash the dirty dishes
  
• Clean off the kitchen counter (mail dumping area)
  

To do this weekend

• Finish black and white skirt - cut out white fabric, ruffle, hem, and sew together, re-do waistband.
  
• Finish orange and brown skirt - cut out bottom fabric, ruffle, sew together, re-do waistband.
  
• Crochet keepers (2 sets)
  
• Write up the steps to 4th of July dance
  
• Finish Sackboy
  
• Yarn dreadfalls (finish 2nd set)
  
• Clean out my work bag
  
• Clean out to-do book (loose pages, move forward)
  
• Crochet a Biffer Shrug = OBE: I found out that my 'biffer' had deteriorated and the rubber was coming off in chunks, and I don't know if/when I'll buy a new one

Blank space so I can fill in the things I actually did so at least I seem accomplished:

• Plant the hosta and tree
  
• Clean up the birdseed spilled when opening the back door to plant the hosta and tree

... I think my procrastination time is up. I did find one thing I got to cross out of my book that I'd done - I finally wound all of my cross-stitch floss onto the bobbins and it's all neatly organized. Yay! (not that I cross-stitch much, but at least it's all neat now?)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Yay for lists! And I'm stealing the idea of heading a blank list of "things I actually did so at least I seem accomplished:" because that so often comes along with trying to get things done.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY makes me feel better. I highly recommend it. :D