day 4 - to do lists and reality

I have a very clever friend who has a more realistic approach to to-do list making. She puts things like 'do laundry' and 'wash dishes' on her list.

I don't.

Those are everyday things - ever present, like death and taxes 

In fact what Benjamin Franklin should have said is "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and dirty dishes".

Since they're inevitable, unavoidable and omnipresent, I shouldn't need to put them on my list. Right?

Of course, my friend is right. If I put those things on my To Do list I'd probably be more realistic with what I might accomplish in one day. 

If I followed her advice, instead of a To Do list that looks like this:

 

I'd have one that looked like this:

I'd actually cross more stuff off my list at the end of the day.

But that would be too sensible. And I'm me, I believe I'm superwoman. Not only can I do everything on my list, I can do it all without help, I can do it all in one day and still have time to wash dishes, put on 3 loads of washing and mow the lawn!

Yeah! I am SuperZefi!

z

PS. I'm thinking of having a whole body transplant soon. This one is wearing out on me...

day 3 - tidying up

What I wished I'd done:

Tidy the mud room.

What I did do:

Yell at Barney for eating my almost-brand-new sneakers. There's nothing like a dog to remind you that you should have put things away. 

Back when I had Billybear and Scooter (toy poodles) Billy had a habit of peeing on my boyfriends clothes. You can bet the boyfriend learned to pick things up off the floor! Another time he taught the boyfriend's daughter to pick up her dirty underwear by eating out the crutch.

Gotta love a toy poodle who helps train messy people!

Anyway, today was a wonderful day! The weather was perfect and at work we took a group of clients to the old town of Richmond for the day. How lucky to have a job which allows me to spend the day working and having fun out in a beautiful place in lovely weather!

z

day 2 - grooming

 What I did do:

I groomed. Today I groomed a sweet border collie x smithfield girl who loved me even after I groomed her, and on the weekend I groomed a gorgeous toy poodle named Captain. Here he is with his new best friend, Mischa. The look on Mischa's face is priceless.

What I didn't do: 

I didn't groom my own dogs. Mischa is shedding so much we've got enough hair to build another 2 staffies. Barney is getting all whiskery, and the poodles' faces are lost in hair. I think Romeo just bumped into a door cause he couldn't see it.

Captain's a squirmy little thing with a seriously bad attitude towards the dryer. His owner, a macho man who's always had big 'manly' dogs, is totally smitten. 

As Jacqueline Suzanne said in her book, Every Night Josephine: the cute shall inherit the earth.

z

day 1 - 31 days of wishful thinking

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31 Days of What I Wished I Got Done

I wish I could post the To Do List below as my 31 Day topic and actually cross each and every project off the list by November 1.

Projects to finish:

• 4 wire dangles for a customer order
• memory box which was going really well till I stuffed it up
• put up a shelf I've been working on in the toilet
• finish living room curtains I started over a year ago
• memory tin I haven't stuffed up yet
• finish sorting items to donate to the work garage sale

Projects to start (and finish would be good):

• make tea light holders for the porch for summer
• organise hanging baskets for around the house
• fix and put up an old chandelier for the bedroom
• make a hanging light for Wayne's desk
• clean up some old metal baskets and find a home for them in the house
• re-make a drawer unit into a bench for the mudroom
• make a hat rack for mudroom
• make a coat rack for mudroom
• make a small box to hold mobile phones & chargers
• use the flour sacks to make kitchen curtains and cushion covers
• make nifty curtain tiebacks (or rather, ask Wayne to make them for me cause this one involves metal work)
• find a use for some fairy lights I have
• make a broken suitcase into a side table
• finish my tip shop chairs
• fix and paint my gate leg table
• make a shelf under the kitchen window for herbs
• paint the mudroom

Big projects: 

• remove office carpet
• remove linen cupboard from LR WHOO HOO!!!! starting my 31 days with one item crossed off!
  
• paint the toilet walls
• make the smallest room into a walk-in wardrobe
• paint the house - outside
• stain the deck
• repaint most of the house inside, cause I changed my mind on the colours.

How's that for a killer of a To Do List? (and that doesn't even include some of the bigger projects!)

z

PS. The 31 Dayers are hosted by the Nester. My link is #804 and there are over 1,100 links. Go check it out.