this is how our house is - all. the. time. ALL. THE. TIME!
i will ask if c can do one thing during the day while i work - usually the washing or tidying and vacuuming the floor. by the time he does all the throw away jobs that go with those two jobs (don't ask me how the washing has extra, related, jobs - it just does apparently) i get home and it feels like nothing has been achieved.
this week, my aim was to clean the house, spic and span, ready for rental inspection. it's become rather ordinary because of us being sick over christmas etc. it's started with the need to rearrange of electrical stuff so that we could put on a dvd for the poppet while we worked so she had something to distract her. we had to move the working dvd player into the lounge, the other bits and pieces elsewhere. to get it all to work, we had to pack 9 plastic tubs full of christmas deco's to make room (hadn't been done cos i'd been so unwell) - then i realised the rooms needed dusting, so i managed to get that done, which led to me NEEDING to know where some candle holders were because i wanted the nice smell, so we unpacked more stuff, but it all had dust on it too, so needed to be washed, so that meant doing the dishes to clean the sink - so dishwasher got emptied, reloaded, everything washed - oh crap, we have visitors for dinner, better cook, so that got done, plus another meal for the freezer, and then realised the meat we were supposed to use for yesterdays dinner (but couldn't cos of visitor) still needed to be cooked, so in the slow cooker with that. more dishes, cos i needed to still clean the candle holders, so may as well get it all done. set up the candle holders and got them going (yay) - then moved the old cd player in the bar, dusted some more, set up the other (non working) dvd player as a surround sound system cos the existing dvd player still works but has no speaker. need to vac - meh, floor is grotty, giving up for the night! that was my arvo yesterday. today has been much the same. still haven't vac'd, but now have music in the shed, and a lot of stuff in the shed has been moved around. tomorrow will probably be similar.
i tried lists - it didn't work for me - if i could see something else that needed doing and i was being regimented, i'd end up getting grumpy and doing nothing cos i wasn't seeing the results - all i could see was what i wasn't doing and could be kwim?
sigh, thinking about this, my day tomorrow is going to be horrible - but i should be relaxing so i have energy for work on Monday. sigh.
on the upside, we can have music outside without using c's dodgy old CD player that is even more tempermental than me!
This made me laugh, because I'm exactly the same. I start one thing (e.g. go to put toilet paper into the ensuite - no one else seems to know how to do it) and I'll walk past the pile of dirty washing in our walk in robe, so I'll take that to the laundry and realise I need to put on a load of washing. I'll go into DD's room to collect more and realise her bin needs emptying. I'll decide to empty the kitchen one while I'm at it and get annoyed at how messy the kitchen is. I'll start to clear things off the bench, but of course the dishwasher will need emptying first....and so the list goes on.......all the time the toilet paper hasn't even made it to the ensuite and the washing might not be on.....
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