It's cold and raining and I think I'm getting a cold, and I have lots of bills to pay so you know, not the best day. So I made myself a list because I get so much pleasure from crossing things off the list that it helps get me motivated. Here's my list today:
breakfast
lunch
pay bills
wash dog
wash bird cage
pick up house
wash body
blog
take out garbage
wash hummingbird feeders
watch Modern Family
dinner
spray everything with lysol
drop bag off at Good Will
laundry
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands
wash hands (Thanks a lot, Contagion!)
Now that I look at this list I do a lot of washing of things. God, I hate washing things. But I like things clean so I'm between a rock and a hard place. Kira has a disgusting cold so that (and the fact that I am still having nightmares about the movie Contagion) is why I'm so concerned about germs and hand washing and Lysol.
Mitch took the garbage out this morning and when he saw me crossing it off my list he grabbed the pen and said I couldn't cross it off because I didn't do it. I crossed it off anyway and had every intention of taking full credit for it in my mind, but then later when I wasn't sitting by the list he signed his initials next to it so now I guess he has officially made it his.
I'm about half way through the day and it doesn't look like the pets are going to get washed, or the hummingbird feeders either, because although the hummingbirds are gone South, the hornets have been gathering around the feeders and I'm afraid of them. They are very big. I think they might be Africanized bees.
Looks like I'm only going to get about halfway through the list today but I did the hard stuff! I paid the bills, ate meals, blogged, washed my body and am keeping up my hand washing pace! Success! Tomorrow I will make my list easier. More eating, less washing.
I think I know someone in your household that could take care of those bees around the hummingbird feeder....
ReplyDeletethe fact that you had to put take out trash on the list is worthy of having to cross it off.
ReplyDeleteYou handle the Mitch incident so much better than me! I'd have glared and said in a really mean voice, "get your own damn list!" Holy crap no wonder I'm not married.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you've managed to spare some of the skin on your hands. Skin is very important. It keeps the blood on the inside.
You've convinced me I don't want to see that movie!
ReplyDeleteYour battle with Mitch over who gets credit for taking out the trash is so funny. Most of us feel the same way about wanting things clean but not necessarily by us having the work to keep them clean.
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