I am totally baffled by how people do all the things we are supposed to get done.
For example, there are the obvious things, like every day we have to eat and sleep. And we are supposed to brush our teeth and shower and do our makeup (I guess now "we" mostly means girls). But, you really should also workout and read and do your "quiet time" and water the plants and apply sunscreen and pick up all the junk off the floor. And that's daily.
Then there's the stuff you're supposed to do once a week-- laundry, cleaning, bill paying, grocery shopping... And the bonus stuff-- deep conditioning, nails, meal planning... and that's not even counting all this other random stuff like changing the furnace filter and recycling and cleaning the humidifier and remembering to get an oil change and scraping the orange goo off the bottom of the fridge.
Plus if you have a pet you have to feed them, clean up after them, brush them, give them medicine when the need it, and make sure they have enough water.
And kids? Oh. my. goodness. Millions of tasks seem to be involved with keeping a child fed, dry and happy.
Are you overwhelmed yet? I'm so overwhelmed! And I feel like every day I read or hear about something else I'm supposed to be doing that I never knew I was supposed to do. Like pluck my eyebrows! I had no idea one was supposed to pluck their eyebrows until a few years ago! So now I'm periodically spending precious seconds I will never get back worrying about how my EYEBROWS look!
And simple tasks seem to be getting more and more complicated. Now instead of just brushing my teeth, I'm supposed to brush, floss, rinse and then apply floride-- TWICE a day!
Not to mention not all of these tasks come easily. So then I spend 30 minutes on the computer trying to figure out how I am supposed to get chocolate stains out of my sofa only to realize now I'm out of both time and energy to actually get chocolate stains out of my sofa...
Seriously I have no idea how people get everything done. Especially considering that in the midst of all this I have to work and sleep and drive places and stand in lines. And I really WANT to spend time with friends and my daughter and my husband. But it all takes time and there's only so much time.
I just keep telling myself that there is no way everyone does everything they are "supposed" to do because I definitely do not. In fact, I usually just give up and sit on the couch with a popsicle, telling myself I'll finish the laundry tomorrow. Which is probably why my clothes always smell like mildew.
So, any ideas for getting things done? How do you keep track of everything you "need" to do?
