Things to Do/Things I Did
This is just a bitch post. Here’s my to-do list from yesterday and today with the stuff that’s been done crossed off. It will grow exponentially as my week progresses.
1. Turn in safety article for work.
2. Turn in product write-up for work.
3. Pull out and re-label high res photos for both articles.
4. Upload them to my server so boss can grab ‘em.
5. Contact PR people for missing photos and suggested retail prices.
6. Turn in book review rewrite (that was easy).
7. Sit down with review books to pick next three to write up.
8. Contact PR people for cover art.
9. Start lining up books for themed issue, upcoming.
10. Find expert for article due at end of month.
11. Find three or four people to interview for slice of life color.
12. Consolidate addresses to turn into boss for web site people.
13. Edit column written by other people for boss.
14. Ongoing: Run through work site and do everyday maintenance. (This is the bulk of my job and can take up a lot of time or very little time depending. But it requires me checking in several times a day and any check-in could turn into an hour or more of busywork.)
15. Answer work message backlog.
16. Answer personal message backlog.
17. Laundry.
18. Help Noah sift out big kid clothes.
19. Move Noah’s winter clothes down to basement.
20. Move up rest of kitchen items still in basement.
21. Sort out books for my sister.
22. Sort out books to donate.
23. Get rid of books to donate.
24. Take Noah to dentist.
25. Babysit Noah’s friend (although this is easy — they sit themselves)
26. Call people re., adoption info they asked for that I said I’d do two weekends ago.
27. Clean bathroom.
28. Buy gift for virtual babyshower.
29. Get Brett’s birthday present from me.
30. Get Brett’s birthday present from Noah.
31. Make menu plan for week.
32. Grocery shop.
33. Use up frozen peaches that have been defrosted for too long.
34. Make gingerbread with apples, which are becoming wizened in their old age.
35. Turn in contract for one job.
36. Turn in invoices for articles recently submitted.
37. Get tickets for trip with J.
38. Switch server host since friend can no longer host me.
39. Call about missing part for bread machine.
40. Register Noah for summer class.
41. Follow up with sister re., childcare.
42. Scan through upcoming calendar and compare with inbox for boss to make sure I’m not missing something that I promised to do.
43. Start lining up news stories for write ups later this week.
44. Take Noah to self-defense class.
Is that it? I think that’s it. Madison won’t go to sleep today. She has a cold and wakes back up when ever I put her down because her nose is so stuffy. You know what this means? It means I won’t get any work done. It means I’ll fall further behind on my list of things to do. I used to get mad at Brett for not taking up the slack but then in the middle of one battle, I realized that he’s doing his fair share. He’s behind on the things he needs to do, too. And he takes on stuff that’s living in my head when he can, like he’s probably going to take care of the airline tickets and registering me for a hotel and reserving a rental car. He’s also in charge of most of the summer camps for Noah (the one on my list is a little Sunday thing) and he does a lot of housework. Not to mention that he handles all of our money, which is a job because I’m a contract worker so there’s my quarterly taxes to manage and then he has all of these weird savings plans and college funds and mutual funds and who knows what.
Today I need to start with #41; I have to find out for sure whether or not my little sister can help.
It’s one of those things where maybe she wants to but things are standing in her way or maybe she doesn’t want to and has conveniently found that things are standing in her way. I need to hammer that out with her because I’m feeling pretty desperate.
Off to change a poopy diaper.
Simple thing you’ve likely heard before: stuffy people often sleep better if proped up, e.g. with a towel under the mattress to hold it at a slight angle.
Cranky sick babies are trying … good luck!
Very, very good luck with all that.
I hate that moment when I stop and realize: the farther behind I am, the farther behind I’m going to get. And I’m never, ever going to claw my way out from under.
I’m stuck there right now. So I can say: at least you got Noah to the dentist’s. That would be a huge accomplishment in my book.