March theme: lists

Well, the good news is that my nose isn’t really infected. This is a degree of normal swelling as it heals itself. So, that’s good. That means I can pierce some other stuff. kidding!

New job starts on Thursday. Was supposed to start today, but the person responsible for getting me started isn’t ready for me yet, so two more days of freedom! During which time I can indulge my love of scrabulous! Clean house? Nooooooooo! Play game after game after game of scrabble, on-line! Yeeaaahhhhhh!

I have so much laundry to do . . . I really, really need to:

1. Take it all to the laundromat.

2. When everything is clean and folded, sort the laundry.

3. Make a pile for the resale shop, a pile that I actually wear.

4. On the way home, stop at the resale shop and drop the clothes off.

I wonder what makes me think I need all this stuff? I tend to wear the same thing over and over and over again. If it were socially acceptable, I’d spend the rest of my life in yoga pants.

Wait. If I became a yoga instructor, it would be acceptable. Yes, I am now making career choices based on wardrobe.

I need to make a little to-do list for today, and if I don’t get some of this stuff done, I need to lay off the scrabble. The guiding force in this to-do list is to set myself up for success, so I am going to select small, easily accomplished tasks. Deep breath. Here we go:

To-Do

1. wash dishes in the sink halfway done–does anyone else hate to wash silverware, too? I always leave it to the end MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and I cleaned the sink

2. get laundry from room downstairs did it, and started a new load

3. try on the new blue jeans, make sure they fit–mission accomplished

4. put away stuff I bought yesterday–mission accomplished

After I check that stuff off, I can play some Scrabble, and formulate my next list.

3:33 pm UPDATE I’m making progress. I’m the only person I know who has to parse this stuff out into tiny increments to get it done, but so be it. I even got a couple of other things put away that weren’t on my list! But I have resisted Scrabble so far.

4:45 pm UPDATE Given the small scope of my to-do list, I’m feeling inordinately pleased with myself for finishing it! Scrabble-time!

6:41 pm UPDATE I still haven’t adjusted to daylight savings time. I look outside, see that it’s still quite light out and think “4 o’clock, max”, like it’s still December. It’s been so cold; it snowed yesterday, so in my mind it’s much more December than March. So I’m pretty surprised that it’s nearing 7 pm.

The temperature did almost reach 50 today, just like they said it would. I had my doubts this morning. I’m feeling very German because it’s warmed up a bit, and I threw open my back door and some windows to get some air circulating through the place even though it is a little chilly. I figure I’m immune to the giant dog smell that surely must be here. Although, I don’t know. I just sniffed her, and she doesn’t seem to have a strong odor.

I wonder what dogs think when we smell them? Do they think, nice try, but I know you have a completely inferior sense of smell? Or, huh, the alpha never sniffs me, wonder what’s up.

I love these times when she’s sleeping at the foot of the bed while I play scrabble. For this very moment, all is right in the universe.