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Holding it Together
Jul. 1st, 2013 09:37 pmSo for the past few weeks, I've been barely holding it together. I managed to get myself out of the house on Saturday, for example, and made it all the way into DC before realizing that I didn't have my wallet on me. Thank you again, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melydia, for spotting me $2 for a drink at McDonald's. Really, I've been managing to stay together by taking it one thing at a time. And I feel like this is usually what I end up doing when I have a ton on my plate anyway. And ALWAYS in the back of my head, is the phrase "if I can just get past X then things will slow down again." But then they don't. And I keep having to make excuses about still not having my act together since X and now Y is approaching, and the whole cycle continues. But for the past two weeks, that's intensified. Every second of my day is packed with stuff. I even have to schedule in resting or I forget, which has resulted in a few near crashes (not of the falling asleep in car variety, but in the "my eyes are about to fall out and I have to crawl upstairs right now because I can't handle how exhausted my body is right now" variety.
Yesterday I made a daily To Do list with 29 items on it. And I finished 26 of those items. Egads, I was working nonstop yesterday! But, as with most times when I'm busy, I've learned that if I don't write it down, I forget that I have to do it. Which isn't good when that comes to ordering new meds or paying bills or having clean pants--all of which are things that are kind of important to me. Okay, yeah, earning the "Big Bowl o' Fun Challenge" for Fishdom 2 on zone.msn.com is kind of important to me as well, but not really on the same level as paying my HOA.
ANYWAY, today I decided to crack open a brand new journal and christen it my To Do journal. Every day I'm going to list all the shit that I've got to do in that day and then I've got something to work with. Enumerated, do-able tasks that MUST get done before I can sit back and do anything else (though, to be honest, I can't remember the last time I've sat back at all. In fact, even when I'm hanging with friends or doing something fun, I'm itching to hurry up because I need to get to the next thing on my list and GODS my list is long). But my plan is to get as much done in one day--to get everything marked off every day if possible and, if not, to carry that over to the next day's list on the next page.
Like all of my methods/schemes, I suspect this will not last for long. But for now, it's a thing. And I like things. Things like brand new, pretty, bright red To Do journals. And so far today? I'm 11 out of 16. Not too bad! Though making a post about my To Do list wasn't actually on my To Do list.
In other news, http://Xanthe.org is newly redesigned and looking great. And I very nearly embarked on reading an old but new-to-me McShep fic before realizing that I don't have time to do that because I have a massive To Do list.
Also, I really need a new LJ tag for "boring life." lol
melydia, for spotting me $2 for a drink at McDonald's. Really, I've been managing to stay together by taking it one thing at a time. And I feel like this is usually what I end up doing when I have a ton on my plate anyway. And ALWAYS in the back of my head, is the phrase "if I can just get past X then things will slow down again." But then they don't. And I keep having to make excuses about still not having my act together since X and now Y is approaching, and the whole cycle continues. But for the past two weeks, that's intensified. Every second of my day is packed with stuff. I even have to schedule in resting or I forget, which has resulted in a few near crashes (not of the falling asleep in car variety, but in the "my eyes are about to fall out and I have to crawl upstairs right now because I can't handle how exhausted my body is right now" variety. Yesterday I made a daily To Do list with 29 items on it. And I finished 26 of those items. Egads, I was working nonstop yesterday! But, as with most times when I'm busy, I've learned that if I don't write it down, I forget that I have to do it. Which isn't good when that comes to ordering new meds or paying bills or having clean pants--all of which are things that are kind of important to me. Okay, yeah, earning the "Big Bowl o' Fun Challenge" for Fishdom 2 on zone.msn.com is kind of important to me as well, but not really on the same level as paying my HOA.
ANYWAY, today I decided to crack open a brand new journal and christen it my To Do journal. Every day I'm going to list all the shit that I've got to do in that day and then I've got something to work with. Enumerated, do-able tasks that MUST get done before I can sit back and do anything else (though, to be honest, I can't remember the last time I've sat back at all. In fact, even when I'm hanging with friends or doing something fun, I'm itching to hurry up because I need to get to the next thing on my list and GODS my list is long). But my plan is to get as much done in one day--to get everything marked off every day if possible and, if not, to carry that over to the next day's list on the next page.
Like all of my methods/schemes, I suspect this will not last for long. But for now, it's a thing. And I like things. Things like brand new, pretty, bright red To Do journals. And so far today? I'm 11 out of 16. Not too bad! Though making a post about my To Do list wasn't actually on my To Do list.
In other news, http://Xanthe.org is newly redesigned and looking great. And I very nearly embarked on reading an old but new-to-me McShep fic before realizing that I don't have time to do that because I have a massive To Do list.
Also, I really need a new LJ tag for "boring life." lol
