Every Saturday morning, I go through the same routine. What do I need to do vs. what I want to do. My mind is a massive to-do list, as I try to prioritize the wants, the shoulds, and the musts.
The Musts are:
- Clean the house
- Get caught up on laundry
- Grocery shop
- Brush the Boy becuase he is seriously blowing his coat
- Balance checkbook
- Work on first lecture for the seminar that I am team teaching with a colleague that starts on Tuesday.
The Shoulds:
- Exercise (Husband, the Boy and I did walk a mile, mostly uphill, last night...woot!)
- Call my mom because she is sick
- Do some organizing with all the back house paperwork that needs to be filed.
- Make copies of the tax records so that I can send in for the house tax credit.
- Shop for rugs for the downstairs, paint for the guest room and stain for the deck.
The Wants:
- Shop for stuff for me at LUSH because I feel the urge.
- Go to the Gap to pick up the lounge wear that RL and I saw last week becuase they were just to damn cute to resist.
- Shop for shoes because my friend, MJ, had these shut-up cute pair of shoes yesterday and they really spoke to me.
- Shop for stuff for the house that I don't necessarily need right now, but want.
- Take a nap, even though I woke up two hours ago.
- Read the James Patterson book I bought at the used bookstore that Husband and I went to last night after dinner. (The store is not far from the house...very dangerous!)
****Tomorrow night, I am going to see Sheryl Crow. I think that is a combination of all three. :)
Some of the things on my list can be accomplished while doing other stuff. Laundry is something that can be done while doing other stuff. I can clean while talking to my mom, thanks to speakerphone. That makes me feel a little less overwhelmed. Actually, as I look at the list, I think I can accomplish most of what I want. Somehow, thinking about what you have to do is much different than writing it down and really seeing it.
And on that note...I am going to dive in.
3 comments:
Call your Mom first! :)
Hope you Mom is feeling better. Yes, as Alice mentioned, that's an important phone call.
Of course, I also would get the lounge wear, rest and read the James Patterson or some other book.
Hugs to Boy.
Get one of those cordless phones with a headset and make phone calls while doing anything and everything. A friend and her sister had a once a week phone date and they talked for two hours while they both cleaned house (well except for when the vaccuming got too noisy!).
Good luck with your list!
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