DAY TWO of doing The Right Stuff first is a mixed bag.
I did s2s first thing, before ever stepping out of the bathroom.
After that, I sorta started spinning my wheels.
Literally, for that matter -- I went to the post office, then came home and looked at the magazine our electric company sends out each month...
Ate and ate and ate... for no apparent reason... so now I'm having that sugar-slump and feeling kinda like I want to go back to sleep.
I did do a quick s/s of the bathrooms.
I WILL NOT DO THAT, however... but I'm struggling to get my day planned.
First of all, I had thought I would vacuum while dh was playing golf... and I still may do that... but so much else is jostling for space in my head.
Maybe writing it down will help.
I need to/want to
[ ] finish laundry
[ ] do Bible reading
[ ] spend time in bedroom zone
* question about this later[ ] go to Wmart to get glasses repaired
* found them in floorboard of SUV with one lens lying there beside them[ ] look for some "dressy" pants at Wmart or maybe Cato, in shopping area next to Wmart
[ ] call dmom
ZONES
I'm trying to follow our zones here this round. I didn't seem to make much progress doing it my way, so I thought, what the heck? Do it THEIR way. And I made myself a card with the zones listed and numbers 1-4 beside them, to keep up with each one as I went through the year, so I'd see if one was being seriously neglected.
The
question is -- I don't see how I can do justice to the bedrooms if I lump them all three together in one week.
And maybe I need another card to keep up with which one I work in and how much? But y'all see where this is headed -- I could spend days just playing with cards and trying to get the PERFECT list written down. It took three tries to do this master zone card. And it is lacking something b/c it doesn't have dates on it, LOL.
My house is like this:
Back entry/laundry, closet
Kitchen
Dining
Baby room (ds's old bedroom), closet
Bathroom connecting two bedrooms, closet
Guest room, closet, hallway, closet
Study, closet
Front entry, closet
Den,
Master bedroom, two closets
Master bath, two closets
Computer room, two closets
PLUSCarport
Large front porch
Patio
Two-story detached garage (pool table upstairs)
Dividing all this into 11 areas is a problem for me.
I don't want to sound like we live in some kind of mansion, but we do have a lot of square footage. There is nothing fancy about our house at all, but we were so cramped in the rental house we lived in when we first married, that we went overboard when designing this one. Of course, we have filled it up too, now, and I guess if we had one twice as big, the clutter would expand to fill it too.
The kitchen/dining/den area is semi-open -- there are no doors between any of them, but there is a hallway that divides the areas from each other, and the kitchen cabinets provide separation of that area. The dining area & guest room never need much attention at all, but I can easily spend an hour in any other room, if I do "focused" vacuuming/dusting, etc. -- so -- lumping "baby" room together with master bedroom seems kinda overwhelming. And that doesn't even mention what if I decided I needed to wash all the bed linens, etc. I can't remember when I washed curtains, for that matter. * sheesh *
Harmony -- I saw your posts in the decluttered home thread, I think, and I am nodding in agreement. It is so difficult for dh and myself to get on the same page re: decluttering. It is easy to see how we raised a borderline-hoarder... shaking my head. That closet in the study? There is no way I would EVER venture into THAT territory. It is packed completely full with sports programs, teaching materials that date back to the 70s, who knows WHAT all dh has packed into it???
But before I get myself really overwhelmed, I'm going to organize that list for today, above, and get started on SOMETHING.
As
blessed keeps saying, even 15 minutes will be more than I would have done otherwise.
I will
* start laundry
* do Bible reading
* do 15 minutes minimum in baby room
* go to Wmart