Day 155
I am like Santa. I make my list, check it twice … and then go the extra mile (or two) and check it again … and then later in the day I check it again. And each time I check off things that I have done.
Or so it is SUPPOSED to go.
I’m a notorious list maker. I make lists because I have no brain. I have a paper brain. I lose my list and I might as well go to bed because I can’t remember what I’m supposed to do! Seriously. I could flounder for DAYS!
And, confession: I have been known to ADD things to my list that I’ve actually ALREADY DONE … just so I can scratch them off! Now, how sad is that!?!
There are days when I think, “Okay, I’m going to put EAT LUNCH on my list so that I can actually have SOMETHING to scratch off at some time during the day – hopefully before it is dark!” Sad. Very sad.
Some days I think I need to join “List-Makers Anonymous”. But I keep forgetting to put it on my list!
Lately, I haven’t been doing so well with the lists. I make them … and then I forget about them until a day or two (or three) later and I suddenly remember (somehow) that I was to do such and such and it was on my list … if only I knew where that list was!
And it’s not always that I don’t know where my notebook is … because I can usually find it – if I take the initiative to go up/down the stairs to one of the desks … it’s that lately, I just don’t care.
I’ve had the attitude that is probably akin to a sloth’s, “Eh, do it tomorrow.” I figure they must say that all the time. I’ve been moving at a snail’s pace because of the heat lately. Well, it’s cooled down and now I don’t have that excuse anymore.
Today I had a friend stop by and we went to lunch. Not too much later I went to dinner with my folks. I ate a lot today and am moving so slowly (again sloth-like) that I don’t really even care what is on my list – or where it is. I know there are things that I didn’t do all weekend … and I don’t care.
What has gotten into me?! This is not normal!
I just think it’s the whole moving thing. I go in spurts with my energy … maybe today I was conserving so that tomorrow I can look at my new list (that I’ll make tonight) and go gang-busters (whatever that saying means) and have a supremely productive day. We shall see.
In any case, I’ll be Santa, once again, and make my list and check it twice (or three times) and knowing what I need to do already I might just have to add take shower, brush teeth, feed dogs … just so I have a few things that I KNOW, for sure, that I can scratch off … just in case it gets hot or if I feel like a sloth-again.