dear lucy:
on Elvis Standard Time... sheesh. oh my gosh that made me giggle d lucy! I hope your d uncle comes a little later
"I have a problem with this 15 min. thing, when it's a job that clearly takes a lot more than 15 minutes
and it takes a lot more than 15 minutes, and"
I think that might be your perfectionist inside of you taking over - all or nothing syndrome. It's really hard to do tell the job you will get to it later (It's part of the perfectionist/all or nothing syndrome). I literally now tell the job that I am only doing the 15 minutes - sometimes I will set another 15 minutes but nothing more than that! I have found once I swipe the bathroom if I just take my wipes and go over the outside of the toilet daily or every other day and give it a swipe it helps. Just steam one bathroom once a week if that makes you happy but don't make it bigger work than it needs to be. Be good to sweet young lucy! If you make a job too big in your mind than you won't want to touch it. Every job I do I make out bigger than it should be but I turn on my timer and 90% of the time I find out that the job is shorter than I made it to be or that I have to attack it another day if I underestimate a job - I do that tooonce I get the steam cleaner out, I feel I have to get all the baths done.
"And it is sooo easy to get sidetracked by the computer." - lol you are preaching to the choir of at our house.