-Get a good night's sleep the night before. If it takes watching the Biggest Loser AND Bachelor to help you have sweet dreams (from the hours of 8-12:30), then so be it...have your list of TO DOs ready the night before so you don't waste precious time writing it on your TO DO day.
-In the morning, drink coffee. Also, eat a breakfast that will stay with you. None of this sugar cereal or worse...bloody Pop Tarts. Pop Tarts have 1% nutritional value. Did I say 1%? I meant to put that in the negative form. Pop Tarts have -1% nutritional value. Steel cut oats are my favorite stay-with-you-because-you-have-a-lot-TO-DO breakfast.
-In the morning watch Ellen. Because nothing says vacation like Ellen. Well, she might not actually use the word "vacation" but she says some other really really funny words...including TO DO.
-Tell yourself that you will watch NO MORE television for the rest of the day. That is your hour and that is all you will get. Because you have stuff TO DO.
-If possible, do something on your TO DO list whilst watching Ellen. I'm sure she'd be in favor of you TO DOing while watching her, including finishing up your homemade thank you cards. Just make sure you're 100% paying attention when Jillian, who got kicked off of Bachelor the other night, is on.
-When you contact someone from a dentist's office for the first time in a kajillion years, make sure they can oh so very very conveniently fill a one-in-a-million spot that just isn't being filled later that day...otherwise you're looking at a cleaning in a couple of years because they're so backed up. Under "call dentist" on your TO-DO list, write "go to dentist" and then immediately cross it off. Because MAN you feel good about that TO DO item that just showed up.
-Call your "little sister" because you haven't hung out with her since you attended High School Musical 2 at the North Shore Music Theater and although that hang-out session kicked butt, it doesn't give you the license to not call her for the next month. Plan your next day with her. Get excited when your next day is jewelry making, coming this Saturday. Cross if off the TO DO list.
-When you go out to drop off coin cans for fundraising at local businesses, don't get discouraged when they say you can't leave the can there. When they tell you that secretly they don't own the sidewalk outside so you can totally loiter and ask for money that way, Just say NO. Because THAT would be a huge obstacle in the middle of your very productive TO DO day.
-While you're asking them this question, have them grind the whole coffee beans that one of your students gave you as a christmas present because the family thought I'd have a coffee grinder. See how we're multi-tasking here?
-Go spin. And make sure the instructor is your favorite one, you know, the one that you secretly want to be friends with because she is a firecracker of a person and just seems like a lot of fun. Also you want to ironically kill her 10 minutes into class because according to your heart rate monitor, you've burned 50% more calories than you usually do at this point during spinning. Your body has officially been re-jump-started for all TO DO list purposes.
-Go home and take a shower. Have I mentioned that we are doing laundry while all this is going on? Another thing to cross off on the TO DO list.
-It's lunch time. You need to eat and re-fuel. Have a chocolate protein shake. Nothing like a lunch to-go on your TO DO day.
-Go to the dentist. Get really really discouraged when the dentist says you have 13 potential spots for cavities and that he wants to see you 2 times for one-hour long each to give you fillings. Be embarrassed, feel like you're about 5 years old again, and make those next appointments. And DON'T lie and say you floss your teeth. Dentists can always see past that lie. Cross off go to the dentist, but add the same exact TO DO item at the bottom of the list because girl, you're going to get some fillings in 2 days.
-Stop eating so much sugar. This is more of a mental TO DO list item. Don't kick yourself for initiating a trip for dinner to Sylvan Street Grille so you can get Mamma Louanne's Brickle Pie (remember, Mamma Louanne is not real). Then don't be ashamed when you're the only one who wants to order dessert because, well, it IS 11pm.
-Go get your oil changed and also ask them to look at your back rear tire because there has been a slow leak and you're just tired of filling up your tire with air. Because as a friend once said in her blog, you just don't know when you're supposed to stop adding air. What if the tire blows up in your face and you die? That was CERTAINLY not on the TO DO list. Because you've done this, you can now cross off BOTH "oil change" and "tire patch". See how putting 2 items down for one trip makes you feel like a million dollars?
-WHILE your car is getting his oil changed and tire patched, walk to the mall and look for a pair of jeans that FREAKING FIT and don't show butt crack. Because butt crack is absolutely on the top of your list of gross things to see. What the heck is wrong with jeans manufacturers. Stop making them show people's cracks. It's gross. Also, while you are doing this, get more coffee. COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE. When you don't find any jeans that fit, don't get discouraged because you did not just waste time, you got your oil and tire done and you're re-caffeinated.
-Go grocery shopping. Even if you only have 45 minutes until the girl's basketball game starts, you are in TO DO mode, so you can do anything. Even if that DOES mean you are going into Market Basket, which should actually be called Freak Basket, because you are a freak to step into that crazy busy grocery store. So what you're looking at is actually a market full of freaks. Hence, Freak Basket.
-Literally throw your produce into the refrigerator and eat some broccoli and hummus while you are doing this. Because did you hear? You're not eating dinner for another 4 hours. You have a hard bench to sit on for the next 4 hours. Also. Do not get discouraged when you look and see that no one has donated to your fundraising online. It'll come, it'll come. TO DO just keeps getting smaller and smaller:)
-But alas, it is time to be social. When working on a TO DO list, it is important to remember that you are a human being. A human being with friends. A human being with friends who, while in favor of you finishing your TO DO list, are also more in favor of hanging out with you. They will actually go so far as telling you to pretend they want to see your TO DO list, when really all they want to do is add to the list, "hang out with friends". Or something like that. I'm an old TO DO list pro, so I knew better than to let anyone see my TO DO list with a pen in hand. Make sure you tell your friends that you love them and appreciate their support of you completing your TO DO list. They are the best friends for sacrificing their time with you just so you can fill out return addresses on envelopes and get fillings at the dentist.
-With that said, dedicate the night to friends. Put the TO DO list aside and act your age, doggonit.
-Write about your TO DO day in blog form, because your mother wants to hear all about it. Now see? You've communicated your TO DO day with her, while at the same time satisfying everyone's blogging needs.
-Go to bed, mentally preparing yourself for another equally, if not even more productive, day spent crossing off TO DOs.
2 comments:
Best blog to date!
Your Dad loved the blog. He was looking for something TO DO. Ha, ha, ha. I am a riot.
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