Saturday & The Big List Of Things To Do

I realized, yesterday, that all the  big things I have been listing on To Do lists since December, are still not Done.  Except for laundry and ironing.  I can't continue to blame "working" for this discrepancy.  I have to set the blame squarely where it belongs.  The Internet.  Before blogging, I got things done eventually.  Now, I spent larger and larger amounts of time just sitting here opening things up, reading, looking etc and not doing anything but increase the size of my spreading rear end.

Today, I am going to try and get two things marked off my list.  I figured out how to manage my Pilates.  As soon as I get out of bed, I put on my exercise clothes and go directly upstairs to exercise.  I don't stop off in the kitchen to "check for comments" first.  And while upstairs, I look for something I can bring downstairs and put in the recycle box or the donation box.  My arms were full this morning and I won't miss any of those things.  I changed my desk top calendar to April and changed my bulletin board calendar from February to April.  I also removed all the old bits of paper and notes from the desktop. I still have dust bunnies to sweep up.

Yesterday I made meat sauce with the ground beef I forgot I had purchased (for a meatloaf I think) and finally breaded and fried the slices of eggplant I had, also, forgotten in the fridge.  Today, I am making marinara sauce.  G and I shoveled the snow off the driveway.  I finished reading my book.  I had guessed, correctly, who the murderer was and the motivation.  It was too easy.  Today I start my next book, The Leopard by Jo Nesbo.  Once I begin, I won't be able to stop reading.

I have committed myself to having three (and perhaps four) large shopping bags of full yards of fabric ready for pick up by the Linus Project on April 8th.  I  just need to go through the fabric once more to see if any of them is still "needed" for any project.  Each time I have resorted I have found one or two items which shouldn't have been included.  One or two out of 100 isn't too bad a percentage.  I can usually see why I added them to the bags.  It helps to sort through the unfinished project boxes to see what I have "going".  Which is stupid since I haven't worked on any of these things in over 8 years.  But that is beside the point.  Until I decide that I am no longer a "quilter", I need to keep these projects.  I'm not ready to say that yet.  Close.

I have eaten breakfast, have the white laundry ready to wash, need to vacuum the floor and clear the dining room table and make the "list" for the taxes on Turbo Tax.  I think the actual "doing" of the taxes was just shy of 2 hours last time.  Ours and the daughter's.  I could have done them in February.  Was on the list.  Anyway, I am moving forward.  Head down, nose to the grindstone.