Unattainable Goals

Have you ever had one of those days where you had great intentions of what you wanted to get done? You start out working hard, keep working hard, and start working harder, only to find yourself needing to work even harder? You get the point. Today when I got up, I determined to attack my house. My house isn’t bad, but when you figure we’ve been of routine now for well over a week, it just makes sense. Lilly has been home from school since a week ago Tuesday, so that’s 9 school days. It started with the snow of the century (ok, coming from NY state I thought it was the biggest joke when the media got on their kick about the weather coming, but little did I know that Marion only has 7 plows and they don’t know how to use the ones they have. Did it ever occur to the plow driver that the roads are much easier to drive on when they put the plow down and CLEAR the road rather than remove a small portion of the snow? It saves time, $, hassle, etc. Just do it right to begin with and then you can find the time to clear all the roads that need to be cleared. The only reason our street ever got cleared at all was because of the guy our neighborhood hires to plow our drives…. he plowed the road! Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox now), when she had Tuesday thru Thursday off. She wasn’t going on Thursday anyway because she had her tonsils out, but they didn’t have it anyway. Then, Friday, they had a half-day. Anyway, she was going to go back today, but because of our sitter/work/work fiasco, they didn’t get to sleep until about 11 or later. (Note: it wasn’t the sitter who caused the fiasco!) She didn’t wake up until about 7:30 and was in no hurry to consider school. We decided to keep her home. Anyway, somewhere around 10, everything hit the fan. She went into attack mode and ended up sitting with her butt in a snowdrift. (It was the only way I could come up with to creatively cool her attitude down!)

So anyway, back to that working hard to get things done. I had every intention of cleaning the house up. I have worked hard. I swept the entire house (I miss how quick it is to vacuum and be done with it!). Since we have all hardwood floors, we can’t just run a vacuum. I have to sweep, and then mop. I did about 1/3 of the floors (some are different then others, so did part), 4 loads of laundry washed, dried, and folded, 3 beds changed and remade, sheets almost washed and dried, 2 comforters washed and drying, 1 bathroom cleaned, kitchen cleaned, stones (the ones I love to use but hate to wash) cleaned, counter wiped, microwave cleaned, some clothes put away, and then…it happened. I quit. I needed to do some calls for my business since I really hadn’t been home to work much this week. It’s been a busy show week (which is a great problem to have). Tomorrow is my 3rd show of the week. I still have one more on Monday. It’s good. This means business is starting to grow. We desperately need that since we still have no movement on the house since the people walked away from the offer. (There will be someone else who offers us what we are asking!)

I still have so much to do…cleaning up toys, moping the main part of the hardwoods, cleaning the other bathroom, dusting (yeah right! I hardly ever do this!) And a bunch of other things. Then, there’s that office I’m supposed to use to work in that is such a mess I can’t work in it. I spent all day last Saturday in there and accomplished a lot, but still not enough. Then, I started on a project to get all my catalogs and order forms ready for all 4 shows, and ended up quitting because I needed ink for my self-inking stamp. (One of those I know I have it, but can’t find it ANYWHERE, so suck it up and go buy a new re-inker moments.)

I love the fact that since I do the same recipe for all my shows each month, I don’t have to repack the crate except by adding catalogs to it. I even got the chicken ready tonight for the show tomorrow so I can sleep a few minutes longer in the morning! I love sleeping in.

So anyway, it’s been one of those days. I don’t think I even bothered to write down what I needed to do (at least all of it) in my planner because I knew I wouldn’t get to it and would just get frustrated because I had to rewrite it on tomorrow. So, it just sits in my mental to-do list and frustrates me there. You know, this is all my parent’s fault. They are both list-makers and I used to HATE HATE HATE it. Mom would try to get me to make lists and it annoyed me. Then, I had kids and started a business. I began to make lists…lists all over the place and never could locate the one I needed. So Phil suggested I get a planner. I now have a Franklin Covey planner that I love. It’s got lots of room and space for 3 quadrants in my life (normally I use only 2, but hey, there’s always room for more) now, all my lists are in 1 place. The menu is stored in the front so I know where that is each day when I go to look at what’s to eat for supper. The grocery list, the to do list, the show schedule, etc. It really helps.

Wow, I’m really going on tangents tonight. Guess it just means there is a lot going on in my mind tonight. Phil is working FNL. He said he’d be home by midnight, but it is almost 12:30, and no call and no husband. I want to go to bed, but figure it a waste, as he will wake me anyway when he gets home. Boy, he’s going to be tired. He had to be at work at about 8 this morning since it is a chapel day and he is always in charge there. He had a long day yesterday too. Guess Dr. Lisa the Chiropractor will be working on his back tonight.

Ok, well, now that I have accomplished even less since I sat down at the computer, I think I’ll close and get ready for bed. If you can follow my tangents, let me know!