List Making - To-Do Part 1

I'm going to take a moment, if I may, to say WHAT THE F...my kids are all miraculously napping and I have SO much to do that I'm pretty much rendered useless. I wonder - does this happen to other moms? I used to be the MASTER of list making and now I wouldn't even think of it because I know it would still sit there collecting dust on my desk in a place where I couldn't find it anyways. Right now I have so much shit on my desk that I don't even know what's what. I usually pay bills online or take care of stuff that needs to be mailed back right away so it doesn't get lost in the oblivion so I'm sure it's not THAT bad. I do, however, have a stack of magazines I haven't looked throught (but plan on) 6 inches thick. Ditto on the mail that needs to be filed away - again, WHY I file it? I don't really know but I'm sure it says to in some book somewhere on being organized and which financials to keep for how long. The stuff I DO want to throw away...oh yeah, that's now been piled so high on my piece of shit shredder that it's now littering the floor and Seth frequents it as his "paper haven" where no doubt he swallows little bits every now and again. Getting a new shredder is on my To Do list but what it really comes down to is I HATE to buy that stupid piece of equipment and I wish people would just leave my identity ALONE for god's sake - no one wants to be ME! Just let me throw my sensitive material in the trash whole.

Let's see, also on my desk is a list of dates that my husband will be at meetings. I have yet to put them on the calendar and I've already mistakenly tried to schedule coffee with a friend next Tuesday when Eric will be at meeting. Serves me right. Then there's that stack of CDs that's been sitting there since early June that I've been promising myself I would add to my itunes. For Father's Day I got Eric an ipod and thought I did "an awesome job" putting most of his CDs on it so it would be ready for him to listen to...turns out although it felt like a million CDs I put on, it was really only 5% of all his CDs. The rest are apparently in the basement. Which reminds me - where the hell is that mini-boom box I used to jump rope to down in the basement. It went missing and I keep forgetting to go hunting for it - another To-Do item.

Getting back to my desk though...I'm quite positive I ordered some pictures from the Kodak Gallery and I can't for the life of me find them on my desk but I'm sure they MUST be there. Also lost among the chaos is surely this packet of shrinky dink paper (remember those?!). I thought it was all together with this space project that had been waiting for the perfect moment to be done...yesterday we started this project and had to stop in the middle of it because I couldn't find the rest of the shrinky dink stuff. Hmmm...said project is still sprawled out on the dining room table just pushed to the side so we can eat. What's going to happen, I don't even have to predict I just KNOW, is that eventually it'll get food splattered on it and we'll either finish it half-assed or I'll just quietly slip it in the trash when the boys are away one day. They won't even notice it's gone....or maybe, just maybe I'll find the rest of that paper!

For months there has been boxes of baby clothes and gear sitting on the hearth of my fireplace anxiously waiting to go to Goodwill. In front of that, on the floor, you can always be sure to find the "dry goods" from Market Basket. I always have just enough time to put away all the refrigerated items after grocery shopping...the others, ah well, you know, they can wait....two, three, four days later. It's safe to say we haven't had any playdates here in awhile. Speaking of the refrigerator, last week sometime (maybe longer) something spilled in there and now it's just a dried, sticky mess. You know, so when you take something out and set it on the counter then the counter becomes sticky and gross but yet I still haven't cleaned it up. Just keep on wiping the counter and putting it back in the mess in the refrigerator. Super lazy, right?

Moving on, my email inbox is a disaster. I have one reminding me I better get my ass to library to return a book I haven't finished reading yet. I was hoping to join a new book club next month but I guess that won't happen since I can't renew the book. I have weeks' old emails from friends who I really should get back to but haven't had a chance to sit down and compose my thoughts.

Ok, time to stop bitching and continue on...maybe I can make some progress today! First I must go rescue my already moldy stroller from yet another rain storm!!