He made a prediction last Saturday, the beginning of Spring Break, that I would be frustrated and exhausted by the end of the week.
Oh, he's only partly right.
But don't tell him I said that part!
I am exhausted, but not totally frustrated.
I'll not bore you with the details of what I did accomplish, though that would be the "healthier" approach for me to take.
See, I have this problem, yes, another one.
I try to fit ten gallons of "stuff" in a five gallon bucket, as my husband refers to my "problem".
I get it from my father, he's the same way.
I have ten hours of daylight, so I plan a thousand chores!
Then when the day is done, I have trouble appreciating the things that were accomplished, because I was unable to complete all my tasks.
Is this a pessimistic attitude? Half full/half empty kinda thing? Hmmmm.
I hope not, because I think I'm actually rather optimistic for the most part.
But I like to get things done.
So, just to indulge myself at the end of my week off work, here are some of the things I didn't complete in relation to blogging:
- A picture of the Italian Cream Cake from my dad's birthday party, that went very well.
- The taxes, not related, but bothers me as April 15th approaches!
- An introduction of myself on my blog. I've never finished setting my page up!
- I didn't get to read all the blogs that I wanted to!
- I have no pictures for today, nor any of the events I have in mind to blog about.
Looking forward to a new day!
This might not work for you, but what I do is after making my list, is go back to each item and estimate how long I think each task will take, then add a lot of padding to that number. It puts a reality check on the list and an appreciation of how much time/work a task really takes.
ReplyDeleteThat is a really interesting idea, listing all the things you didn't get to do! It basically becomes your "to do" list for the next day. Our spring break is just ending, I was too distracted with things I'm doing to spend the real quality time I want to with the kids. I don't usually do that, so I'm sort of kicking myself tonight.
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