Why is it that when I’m up to my eyeballs and beyond with deadlines and stuff on my platter, I run around stressed – “Yikes, what do I do next.” My family probably looks at me thinking: “Look out, she’s gonna’ blow!!!” Yet when there’s nothing crucial on the agenda and I have time to actually accomplish something, I have zero get up and go. There are countless loose ends that need tending.
It’s a wise thing to rest. Constant working isn’t good or productive for the body. However, I am not resting. I’m just messing around wasting precious and valuable time doing nothing in particular. I think I’ll have to play a game with myself. I’ll take several things and break them into bit-size chunks so the tasks will be finished before I realize I don’t want to do them. Trust me it works. I multi-task so much that it’s really not that hard to fool myself into doing what I don’t want to do. Of course pumping myself full of brownies helps too.
Possible tasks:
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Tidy master bedroom
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Tidy master bathroom
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Kick son out of master bedroom and back into his own room
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Dust something
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Vacuum master bedroom and bathroom
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Research item on internet
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Write looooong overdue letter
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Have some more devotional time
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Delete a few hundred emails
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Answer one email
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Do some ironing (some is the best I can hope for)
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Remove niece from kitchen before she eats us out of house and home – you know “step away from the food!!!”
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Sort the laundry
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Put in a load of laundry
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Fold some laundry
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Fix a meal for my mom – not an option, must do
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Send in my group’s info for the newsletter
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Get more brownies for when the buzz from the 1st stack wears off
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Clean off the dining room table (put away the coat, wallet, mail, journal, packing tape, book, keys, magazine)
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Order coupons from eBay
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Sort some things to sell on eBay
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Mail a package to my son in college
My list could go on and on, but somehow the one thing I didn’t list is probably what is going to happen. I must prepare another meal for my mom and then I think I’ll just get in the bed and call it a day. I’ve already dozed off about 3 times while typing and it’s taking longer and longer to blink.
Check back soon, I’m sure I’ll have something purposeful to say eventually.
Thanks for stopping by. Don’t forget to visit my Only on Mondays blog for a meal planning system sure to save you hours in the kitchen and help you to have fun for the time you do spend in the kitchen. If you don’t know the details on how it all works, you can read it here
With all the extra time, you can visit me on eBay – just a thought.
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