When I have tasks to accomplish, I make a list. Always. I even make sub-lists covering the steps of the items on the main list.
What's terrible, though, is that I tend to beat myself up when the list goes undone. Why does it go undone, you ask? Welp, I'm not only a lister, but I'm also a procrastinator. I put things off, and I still haven't found the reason for that. Sure, I have plenty of hypotheses: deer-in-headlights reaction, intense apathy, defeatist mentality; call it anything you want, but the reality is that the tasks don't get done. At least not all of them. And NEVER on time.
The Current List:
1. fill out and send wedding thank you cards (now an entire month overdue according to etiquette)
2. rearrange pantry; clean out refrigerator
3. sort CDs into alphabetical order (not a small task... I have over 300)
4. sort magazines
5. rearrange bookshelves (again, no small task... I haven't even counted)
6. re-hang art on walls
7. pack returns and send off
8. go through wedding boxes
9. clean and organize craft space
10. clean vanity (it's like a Sephora bomb went off in my bedroom)
11. fix clothing in drawers (Aaron's the laundry bitch, and he has issues with folding clothes apparently)
12. go through closet and donate
13. go through boxes under bed and in storage
14. organize bedroom
15. make initial psych appointment (Tina's starting to feel the crazy brewing again... time to nip this thing in the bud)
16. send Caitlin's box
17. finish mortgage paperwork (a BIG one, for sure)
18. get charcoal for terrarium
19. Staples for more school supplies
20. new designs for Etsy shop
21. make new cards
22. schedule guitar lessons
23. make household chore schedule
Oh, and I loooove that last one. I wrote that one to avoid the dreaded dirty dish pile-up, the unsorted mail that clutters the kitchen table come Friday, and the supermarket circulars that somehow never make it to the recycling pile. A task designed to make my life easier. But can I do it? 'Course not.
Help.
And because no blog post can be without a picture, here's one.
Don't ask.
1 comments:
We got married in November and I still have wedding stuff piled up in my spare bedroom and stuff like boxes of baking pans that have been stashed in the laundry room unopened. Seems the stuff only gets opened when the old stuff it was meant to replace breaks. I still have a box of bubbles and wedding favors and flower petals and God knows what else in my spare bedroom.
I make lists too and most of the time it goes undone until I get a huge injection of angst, frustration or just plain disgust at how cluttered and messy my house is. Even then I can't get anything done if the hubby is at home. I got lucky yesterday he had to work for almost 7 hours...so a retarded amount of cleaning got done (I think I've permanently destroyed my sense of smell by bleaching the baseboards, cabinets, door frames etc!) Don't be too hard on yourself, it'll get done eventually, even if it's a little at a time :)
Take some time to get used to being married before you bog yourself down in chores. I noticed there were strange subtle differences in myself and how I felt for months after (read: I went sorta crazy and got sorta depressed/angry).
Much Love to ya!
-Camicia
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