Oh dear, my task/to-do list is getting out of control! I have been off of work since June 1st and I don't start my new job until July 6th, so you would think that I would have accomplished a great amount of tasks.
Being a SAHW (stay-at-home-wife) is hard! It's all too easy to fall in to the routine of watching tv/movies during the day! Though I am quite proud to say I have been working out just about every morning as part of my routine. But...then I'm so tired from running a lot in the heat that I just crash. Then it's not until noon that I think, "oh, I really need to do something." Then 4:00 rolls around and I panic again since I should be cooking some dinner. I have no excuses not to cook since I have free time and am not bringing in a paycheck. Though I do DETEST cooking. It's a means to an end for me and often I don't even know what I want to eat, so how am I supposed to cook for myself and someone else?!? Now baking, baking I LOVE!
Anyway, back to the post, my list is crazy. I tend to do too many things at once and get immersed in the details. Reference when I clean our loft (which is really just a 4th floor that houses our desks)...I try to throw out magazines and get distracted by going through all of them - bad bad bad! I am making progress. But how to balance all of the cleaning and organizing that I
want to do with the dreaded painting I
need to do? That's the hard part because you can't just paint and then pause to clean...when you paint, you have to paint continuously until you finish all of the walls. It's exhausting! Mark has directed me to focus on painting the dining room and that's it - no cleaning or organizing. It's like a horrible punishment. Painting really does burn me out because I am so s...l...o...w! I'm a perfectionist and it gets the best of me
My overall list looks like this:
- Paint dining room! One more coat to go. Then paint baseboards, fireplace, and crown molding.
- Clean dining room and all furniture in there. Decorate as needed (ummm not much in there!). On the wish-list goes some floating shelves and artwork.
- Rollover 401k to IRA.
- Figure out eye benefits because I am overdue for my eye exam.
- Organize photos - all photos - online and print.
- Store photos on DVDs/flashdrive.
- Finish wedding photos in albums - meaning I need to finish putting all of my prints (not really prints since they are regular photos) from our wedding in these Martha Stewart albums. I'm 75% done! Oh, we've been married 3 years.
- Make parent albums - I need to order parent wedding album's from MyPublisher. This is also so overdue. The Kodak albums I made weren't that great :(
- Clean/organize loft - this entails a lot of work!
- Call Wachovia/WFC to reduce credit limit.
- Tires for both cars - not until I'm working again.
- Where is AMEX account closure?
- Clean up internet bookmarks.
- Order lamp shades from RH - not until I'm working again.
- Return VS swimsuit - oh this goes back to last September - eeekk!
- Best Buy Rewards - need to make sure orders reconcile with rewards - yes, very random.
- Cut Christmas cards for photo coasters.
- Delete BlackBerry photos.
This is only part of my list...some of the items need to be expanded upon. My main goals are to paint many rooms, organize the ENTIRE house, and clean everything. I love organizing and at times it's overwhelming but nothing calms me down like organizing papers, clothes, etc... Needless to say, I have not felt like our house has been organized since we moved here 3 years ago - yikes. So here I go with making some progress in the next two weeks before I start my new gig! I'll update my progress and show before and after photos of the dining room. I love the olive green color I picked!
