Who are these "most people?"
- sigh* My sister. Who has more energy and drive at 59 than I've had at any point in my whole life.
when I am overwhelmed, which happens on days ending with "-day."
heh. Yeah.
It's like writing -- "Shitty First Draft."
oh, hell, yes, this is why I don't write anymore.
I don't think I can give myself permission to only do 5 things. Of course, logically, it's better than doing nothing, but I haven't given myself permission to do nothing, I'm feeling dreadful about it, so that's totally different. (Logic, clearly, has nothing to do with this. And now I feel like my hero and role model Spock is silently disappointed in me. argh. Don't look at me with those Vulcan eyes!)
ION, one of my friends Twittered that she'd made her first strawberry rhubarb pie and it was awesome. I'm starting to suspect she's a secret Buffista. Except she never watched Buffy.
home security system consisting of a moat filled with robot sharks with lasers on their heads
I really don't see how any security system could be better than that. I assume there are surveillance cameras, just so the videos can be posted to YouTube.
Timers do work to keep me focused. I keep forgetting about them. (What a surprise.)
It's the extraordinary things we rise to. It's scrubbing the toilet that defeats us.
Very true. Although, in specific, I got the housework stuff covered: I hired a cleaning service. See, if I could just pay someone to come and do this FOR me? Man, I would seriously give someone my whole next paycheck to come organize my house and get rid of shit I don't need and tell me where shit goes and what's actually OK to get rid of. While I curl up on the couch in a ball of gratitude and shame.
I was in Rose's (the poor woman's Wal-Mart) (yeah, think about that one for a minute) just now, focusing on getting 3 things, and practically hyperventilating over not being able to find 2 of them! Dammit.
Lists. I make to-do lists, but then it's OMG-look-at-all-this-crap and then I need the inhaler. Nothing is one-step, either. "Cancel Dish Network" is really "Call Dish. Wait on phone. Cancel. Find out how to send back the machine. Pack the machine in the box they send. Take the box to UPS. Check bank account to make sure they canceled." This is why I stopped using Dish 3 weeks ago, but I'm still paying for it, and the machine is still on the floor.