What is it about never-ending “to do’s”??!!
First there’s “to do’s” (“to dos”?) that come up as you go through your day. You do one thing and then there is this domino effect that happens causing you to do ten different unplanned “to do’s”. For instance, this morning it started with making coffee (to jack myself up enough to get the never-ending “to do’s” done!). No big deal, except when you’re still half dead, it’s not so easy:
• empty the leftover coffee from yesterday
• clean out pot
• fill up w/water
• empty filter
• clean out filter
• measure right amount of coffee
• actually 1st decide how jacked up you wanna be
• then calculate the number of scoops it will take to do the job
• all this while the baby is eating the grounds off the floor from the trash she managed to take out of the can
• pick her up
• wash her off in the sink
• put her in the playpen
• clean floor
• take out overfilled trash bag out of can
• take out rotten odor absorbing orange peels (it totally works!) out of bottom of can
• take baby out of playpen to change diaper
• coffee grounds in her diaper and stuck to her bottom
• make executive decision to give her a bath even though still decaffeinated and in zombie-mode
• put her in bath
• hose her down
• play referee trying to keep her from climbing out of bathtub
• get ready to dry her off
• she dumps her bath cup full of water all over my pajamas
• take her out of bath to dry her off
• change my pajamas while she crawls around naked and gets into the bathroom cabinets I thought she would never get into with the safety latches I begged my husband to install
…finally after wrestling with her and her cute little outfit that’ll last about an hour, I get myself a cup of coffee.
What I had planned for was to have a cup of coffee. That wasn’t even a “to do”.
Then there are your “to do” lists. I say “lists” cuz I have like 7: one on my kitchen counter, one in my purse, one in my office, one that doubles as a bookmark for one of the 4 books I have been trying to finish for the past 4 months, one for “to do’s” to do later down the road when I have no “to do’s” to do then (yeah right). I cross off one thing and write down 5 more. It’s some sort of masochistic for me, cuz I almost try to think of things to put on the list(s) and the “to do’s” are not THAT important. Then again, they are when in the occasion of not having one done; you realize life would’ve gone a lot smoother if it had been done.
Then there are those “to do’s” that swim around in your head while you are driving and are driving you crazy cuz you know your going to forget all of them except for the one that is already listed on all 7 lists.
I just have that burning desire to have NO “to do’s”. Have everything crossed off all lists, all lists thrown away, all housework done and my head clear of it all. But, I have come to accept the fact that there are ALWAYS going to be “to do’s” and that they will probably NEVER all get done. I have also come to accept that there is ALWAYS going to be dishes, laundry, paperwork to go through, trash to take out, and milk to buy. That hasn’t made it any easier, just a little less frustrating. Oh, zoning out on “The Real World” helps too.
TOP TEN LIST
My Top Ten “to do’s” that never get done... & probably never will:
10. Replacing the “temporary” paper shades in my home office that are now, obviously...not so “temporary”.
9. Reconfiguring my illegible Christmas Card list.
8. Finish hemming the work pants in my closet that #1, I have no use for anymore & #2, are now outdated.
7. Printing out the 726 (and growing) digital photos I have on my computer.
6. Putting those 726 photos in albums.
5. Going through the mystery contents of the boxes in the garage that I apparently have no use for.
4. Updating my expired passport for which my dad lives in fear of my deportation.
3. Returning stuff that by now, I probably can’t.
2. Sorting out the monster pile of paperwork on my desk I’m in complete denial of.
1. Folding the wrinkled clothes in the laundry basket that has become a permanent fixture on my bedroom floor & will soon be empty as a result of my need for the items inside of it.
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