Checking in from another lazy Saturday...
DGD spent the night & was here till around noon, when I took her home, and since then I've been watching/sleeping through tv Westerns with dh.
Now, we are getting ready to go pick up ds/family and go out for supper. This has become our quarantine routine. (Not the sleeping through tv all day; that was already my Saturday routine when not attending a sporting event or music festival.)
Anyway... the year is approaching the halfway point. I have really got to get myself together.
.....
I type that and then I think,
WHO AM I KIDDING??? I have been retired 7 years. Will I EVER "get myself together?"
OTOH, ddil looks at our house and I'm sure she thinks I am a total neat freak, born-organized, possibly some kind of alien.
I guess I have this inner thing from my ddad that makes me think I am supposed to be BUSY BUSY BUSY
ALL the time --
but unfortunately, I did NOT inherit the energy to actually DO the things I "see" that I need to be doing. So I am constantly at war with myself.
Like the Apostle Paul, the thing I want to do, I do not... * sigh *
I went through that planner I bought last December and figured out what kind of zones it has. Our way is MUCH better.
It has you in the kitchen 8 weeks of the year -- just little tasks like one week for the spice rack, one for the refrigerator, one for the freezer, and then it will rotate all that again six months later.
It breaks down to this:
8 weeks kitchen
3 weeks master bath
3 weeks child room/bath
1 week master bedroom
1 week office
1 week den/living room
1 week laundry
1 week dining room
1 week misc storage areas
1 week garage -- all thouse will rotate, so it should be 42 weeks if I did it right --
PLUS
5 weeks Christmas prep
1 week for summer/pool planning/organizing
2 weeks to purge/print & organize pictures on phones
1 week for general phone app organization/etc
1 week for organizing tv/media
1 week for windows
For my house, that totally omits my study and guest room, (I would consider the computer room my “office,”) but I just don't see that being nearly as productive as our 4 rounds. There are also some tiny tasks like "clean light fixtures & fans," "clean mirrors," "clean doorknobs and light switches" which apparently rotate through about once a month, but I think our way, or the F lylady's way is much better. I am sooo glad I did not spend $50 on the pretty printed & bound version.
My problem is just... a combination of my lack of energy & motivation, plus dh's... presence.
Our day is like --
get up, s2s, go to post office, return home, read the paper... and then he watches tv or something till time for me to start supper.
Then he takes his shower, we eat, clean kitchen... watch tv...
Occasionally he might want to go out and do something like trim shrubs, poison ant mounds, something like that, but mostly he is in the house and either (1) don't want to disturb him or (2) don't want to do anything because HE isn't doing anything.
For example -- I know I need to wash the curtain in the dining room... but I know it's going to be awkward and troublesome to get down -- it's on a long rod, bay-window size, and I don't want to have to ask him to help and don't want to get it in a mess that I need him to help.
AUUUGH!
Interrupted now bc he’s ready to leave and wants to delete junk emails!