Doing STUFF!

[mrsbrown]

So Rose is finally asleep for the morning, I've had breakfast and read LJ and the paper, so now what do I do?

I've been thinking over the last few days about all the things I thought I was going to get done while I'm home on maternity leave. I know that other mothers don't get stuff done when they have small babies, but I'm different. Rose is my fourth baby, I'm an organised person and I will DO STUFF.

I haven't gotten anything done yet, and I'm having trouble fitting a shower into my day full of nothing, my day that seems to include reading a lot of the internet, refreshing my friends page too often and feeding, changing and putting a baby to sleep. By the time I blink, it's my nap time (I'm still quite tired) and then the older kids are home from school and I'm interacting with them. I am successfully making bread daily, but I haven't done the washing or tidied my bedroom or the family room - the minor things I thought I would get done.

I realised today that I'm not planning to do stuff, so I'm not doing stuff. So here's my short term list of stuff to do;

• get out my non-maternity clothes and organise somewhere to store them


• design the two options for tenbears and splodgenoodles laundry and work out a rough estimate of the respective costs and timeline.


• go to Friends of the Earth foof co-op and buy some interesting breadmaking flour


• spend 15 min on tidying my crap in the family room


• have a shower


• find some non maternity/non frumpy clothes to wear

There are more than 5 things on the list, but showering should be really easy to achieve - Rose just went to sleep, so I probably have at least 2 hours to achieve it. Clothing myself afterwards is another story.

My list of 5 things I want to get done by christmas are as follows;

• finish my tent for festival


• sort out the workshop so I can use it and find things


• make at least 2 new dresses and 1 new underdress for SCA use. They have to be breastfeeding friendly, comfortable and flattering.


• design the house extension and organise budget estimates from at least 2 builders


• make Rose's entire festival wardrobe.

I try to keep my lists to five things because I have a rule that when I get a new enthusiasm, I have to do one of the things on the list before I can add the new thing. It stops discourages me from flitting from project to project.

I will put my long term list up in the toilet, so I remember that I plan to DO STUFF

Comments

[tenbears.livejournal.com]

So only five things on the list is a rule is it?

But it's okay to have more than one list if you have more than 5 things?

Hmm