Okay after my Sunday was wasted its time to get down to business I have 5 vacation days where I need to get something done. I need a plan. I am a big fan of lists, when I do stuff on them I feel accomplished. I like that. So here is tomorrows plan...

Living Room

• Remove paper shades, hang curtains, call on back ordered blinds...
• Clean off table, gather DVDs from downstairs and put in boxes, gather random books and find a place on the bookcase for them...par down nick nack collection & declutter book shelves.
  
• Re-hang candle thing so its not behind the TV, hang clock above the bookshelves book shelves.
  
• Declutter windowsill....(Ask Carri which plants can be relocated)
• Sweep/vacuum floors and carpeting.
• Try to clean ottoman...if it doesn't work throw it away

• Dishes, counter tops, appliances
• Go through mail and all the other miscellaneous "stuff" by the mail
• Install a key hook (ahem a nail)
  
• Clear out the dresser in there, move it to the spare bedroom (if too heavy move the drawers to the spare bedroom)
• Take everything out of the pantry and put it on the table...make bags for food shelf donation, replace sparingly. Go through small appliances in the same manner.
  
• Take everything out of the cupboards put things back so they make sense...throw away anything that is falling apart or generally crappy.
• Wood treatment for tables, chairs and cabinets.
• Clean sliding door, wipe down walls
• Mop the floor.

• Gather & sort laundry
• Put away whatever is clean
• Make a stuff to buy list
• shower & eat
• Drink a bottle of wine
• Listen to my RATE ME play list
  

Labels: Lists, To Do Lists

I was inspired by Rory's post so here is my list of this to do / resolutions for 2009.

• Get a Mac and organize my music library
• Go through all my closets and actually get the donations to wherever I'm donating them too.
• Make a list of everything that I need to do to before selling my house
• Pay off my car
• Pass my MT boards
• Create a (groan) landscaping plan for my yard...execute said plan
• Visit Hairnett and Heff in Green Bay
• Visit Cobie for no reason and with no plans
• Crochet a baby blanket for my baby cousin
• Start flute lessons
• Get my car detailed
• Take "after" pictures of my house and organize them in my web album
• Go see a play
• Go to a concert
• Go to a cubs game
• Say yes to an invitation I want to say no to
• Eat at Old Spaghetti factory
• Make homemade macaroni and cheese
• Take a community ed class
• Sigh make some attempt to go to the gym once a week (starting after boards are over)

P.S. This is my 300th post if I wernt so boring I could totally have a book.

Labels: To Do Lists

Picture Stolen From Efikim Gallery.

No this is not a movie review. In fact I haven't even seen the movie "the bucket list" but in my daydreams avoiding the work I brought home tonight I have decided to make my own version.

Now I haven't pre-prepared this so I may have to revise items later. Then again I tend to over analyze so maybe spur of the moment is good for me.

Things to do before I kick the bucket

1- Take two months to tour the following countries: Italy, Great Britain, France, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. 3 weeks: Japan & China, 3 weeks: Australia & New Zealand. I would stay in low budget hotels and take the train...visit museums and eat at local cafes I think I can do it for $50,000.

2- Clean out my entire house and sell anything that I do not love (get rid of that chair I don't like anymore) or need (have not touched in the past month). Any exceptions or keepsakes must be able to fit in a cedar chest, donate or throw away what did sell. Move into a new house that's small, paint every room a different color and actually decorate it to be mine!

3- Compile all my blogs and my journals into a physical book. Have it bound and printed. Put it in a safety deposit box.

4- Write a letter to everyone that has made a difference in my life. To thank them for everything they have done for me. I have passed up so many opportunities to thank people that have helped me in life. Find as many addresses as I can, and send the letters.

5- Shop at co-op, don't make or eat anything made by someone else for 1 full month. (Only visit the produce, dairy and meat sections). If its in a box, bottle or in a restaurant its off limits.

6- Be a mentor or parent to a child. Foster, adopt, have my own whatev.

7- Fix into a size 12...without sucking in after eating a large meal (i.e. a comfortable size 12)

8- Do something amazing for my parents.

9- Give $1,000 dollars anonymously to someone who needs it

10- Read up on at least 10 religions, write what I like and don't like from each one. When I'm done write my final draft of my own beliefs.

Labels: Babies, church, Death, Dreams, Family, Food, Friends, Thoughts, To Do Lists, Weight

am so tired. It’s been a bit of a weekend from hell. I had a 3-day weekend to celebrate my bday. I took off after work on Friday to Madison to meet this boy I’ve been talking to online. I was actually quite smitten with him drawn out long conversations every night that sort of thing.

The date went pretty well. I had fun he has a bit of a temper on him about stupid things but I think he just doesn’t like to be polite to people who don’t deserve it something I quite frankly wish I did more of. After several drinks we end up making out in front of the bar (tacky I know) and then went back to his place for more making out and talking. Not a bad kisser but he did have a bit of garlic breath. So then things got weird. I wanted to go to bed and he didn’t go with. Who does that? I wasn’t going to sleep with him but I could go for more making out and talking just in a more comfortable place but he stayed up and read. The next morning he barely talked to me it was odd. So yeah my high expectations were dashed…typical.

My cable and internet has decided to go out. I’m a bit lost. I’ve been without internet for days and I need to catch up on important things like checking the blogs I read and myspace and talking to my fake friends that I know basically nothing about besides their screen names. Belmont (my dog) is sick after my very log weekend complete with driving and birthday camping I came home to a house filled with dog poop and puke complete with a curt note from my pet sitter. I’ve cleaned it although I can’t get him to do anything but drink water, he won’t even eat the rice I made him. Maybe I can convince him to eat in the morning.

I’m really quite pathetic I don’t know how to entertain myself anymore. I don’t want to read anything I own sometimes I wish there was a Barnes and Nobel connected to my living room. Most likely Id just pick up some trashy magazine with anorexic Nichole Richee and her pregnant belly that bulges less than my double chin. I want culture. I want to not notice my internet is out because I’m too busy reading classic literature and painting to ever get around to going online.

I want to write poetry. I have written one poem since being required to do so school. It’s bad. I was drunk and very upset when I wrote it one of those unreturned love situations. I actually want to go and read it just to reconfirm it was bad but quite frankly I’m just too lazy to go dig up my old journal.

I’m much better with lists than poetry so here is what I want to do in the next 2years.

1- Apply for a promotion at work

2- Be able to close my old pants…that’s a good 50lbs

3- Pay off my car

4- Pay off my credit cards

5- Finish school and pass boards

6- Get a job in Chicago that is not a step down (lateral is just fine)

7- Buy a crappy condo in Chicago that has one bedroom and a balcony.

8- Sell basically everything I own which is not alive or have sentimental value.

9- Start over

Starting over has such a negative connotation. I don’t want to run away I have nothing to run away from. I have a good job and a nice home in a safe decent town. I’ve just decided it just isn’t me. Chicago is where I belong. I’ve gone out on my own and now its time to go home.

Labels: Belmont, Birthdays, Chicago, Internet Dating, To Do Lists