Do you have a list in your head each day of the things you planned to do that day or the day before that kinda never got done. Like washing the bed sheets or cleaning out a closet, or sweeping the porch. Does not have to be a BIG thing just stuff we need to do and yet other things keep getting in the way. I have this problem of being right in the middle of a project and I go to another room to get something and see something else that is half done and some how forget about the chore I left behind. I feel like the person who's honey-do list has taking control of their life and someday I am going to wake up and find myself buried under that list of chores or maybe someday I will catch up and sit in a comfortable chair the rest of my days. Does this happen to you? Can you see the humor in this? Do you think it is just old age or maybe father time has speeded up the clicking of the clock and we are still lagging behind. I hope some day down the road I will get caught up and my house will be orderly and well organized, but I would not count on that happening any time soon. lol tick-tock........
@Sandy Wood "maybe father time has speeded up the clicking of the clock and we are still lagging behind." Hey, careful now, that could be construed to mean the end of my tunnel is approaching faster than when younger..... Frank
Not meaning to go off-topic, but on a related note: would anyone know the name of the actress (popular movie star from decades ago) who said getting older is like being on a plane speeding forward?
@Janice Martin - not heard that one - sounds like Bette though ................ Sandy ............. You're not alone ..........
Occasionally I like to employ the use of a"punch list", of very specific tasks to do today. No more than 5 or 6 tasks. On that day, I get up & dressed, and out the door. Doing this every day, would be over-kill.
I too get behind on things I should do for time runs out on me everyday. I guess it's something to look forward to everyday a to do list. There is never at time when we have nothing to do is there. Every day that goes by there seems to be something else that gets added to the list that we must do one day. One day we'll get finished and then there will be more things to do.
I thought it was only me who did this. I have a list every day of things that need to be accomplished (some of which I have not interest in doing). My house could be cleaner, my clothes whiter, my food healthier, and my yard neater but do I want to spend every living day doing this???? No! Sometimes, I would just rather take a nap.
I used to be a perfectionist. When I was given my own room during my high school days, it is always spic and span. My parents noticed that and said that I am an organized person since all my things have their proper places - books in the small table, footwear underneath, my clothes in a small cabinet, etc. It was a small room because we lived in an apartment and my father had built a divider one room so I could have privacy. Maybe that feeling of privacy taught me to be organized. Besides, it's easy to organize a small room like that. When I married, I still practiced that spic and span ways. However, my office work consumes most of my waking hours and weekends are reserved for social activities and my chores with my dogs so some of the things in the house have somehow in disarray. But I have learned to take it easy especially when my husband said that how can I keep the house immaculately clean when we have dogs inside. That was food for thought to me. Yeah, I love my dogs and I guess it is all right is the house is not spic and span. So life has to go on, organized or disorganized, the world continues to rotate.