I love a good list. I know that’s sad but I find there is something very therapeutic about getting everything down on paper. I’m sure it goes hand in hand with the fact that my memory if terrible. It’s always been bad but since I had the boys I find without a list to hand to write things down as they occur to me I’d forget 90% of them.
Last night I was sat feeding T before bed and I knew hub was just about to pop to the supermarket for some milk. I thought of three other bits we needed, yep just three, and by the time I got downstairs I’d forgotten them. To my credit, I at least remembered that there had been three things which was a start. After 20 minutes of hub helpfully listing everything you can buy in a supermarket (charcoal, no, selotape, NO, tupperware, shut up now) we’d managed to work out two of them and I gave up and sent him off. 24 hours later I still can not remember the third item. It’s like having the housewife’s equivalent of the sword of Damacles hanging over me because I know at some point over the next couple of days it will become obvious what it was. That point will be the precise second when I need it and realise we don’t have it.
E was in Holiday Club today so it was just me and baby T and I was planning on getting lots done. So I didn’t forget anything important my ‘to do’ list looked like this:
- Do the washing
- Get chicken out of the freezer for dinner
- Tidy kitchen
- Write a blog post
- Pay cheque into bank
- Sort out invitations for my sister’s leaving party
However, I left the list on the dining room table so what I’ve actually achieved unfortunately looked more like this:
- Play with T who is being very entertaining at the moment
- Put T down for nap
- Put the washing on (good so far)
- Put roasting tray in sink to soak then realise I can’t use the sink for anything else and therefore put off the rest of the tidying
- Sit down to write post but get distracted by twitter, facebook and general piddling about on the internet
- Get T up and ready to go to the bank
- Pay in cheque (big tick)
- Walk past bakery and decide to get doughnuts to celebrate my supremely productive day
- Decide to go to the park because the weather is so lovely
- Get home and put washing in drier (excellent)
- Make cup of tea and sit and play with T until hub comes home with E, feeling relatively content
- Realise I have forgotten to get the bloody chicken out of the freezer and we now have doughnuts for tea
- Facepalm
This is just getting ridiculous. At least I’ve done a post now I suppose. But wasn’t there something else…
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Emma says
Ha ha I’m exactly the same – must make lists other nothing gets done! Not that much gets done with a little person in the house.
Doughnuts for tea sounds good to me!
Shouldn’t moan about doughnut really, I do love them 🙂
🙂 I can relate. I hate it the most when I create a grocery shopping list of all the things we need in the house….and then forget it on the counter, but only realize that when I walk into the store and start searching for the list….
I’ve certainly done that 🙁
Ha that’s exactly the reason i don’t ‘do’ lists! 🙂 Knowing me, I’d have a great big list of good intentions and things to tick off, then get all depressed and realise I’ve done a big fat nothing on it and a load of other faffing things as well! 🙂
Lists all well and good in reality, but for me they just don’t work out that way!
Yep, I’m full of good intentions!
I hate it when I think of things we need but forget it before it makes the list. I love making lists and tend to do it half way through doing things, then I have loads to tick off and I feel v satisfied! (and a bit of a fraud!)
Me too, a bit of a cheat but quite motivational so I think it’s allowed!
H aha oh yes sounds like my lists xxxx
Glad it’s not just me 🙂
I totally understand where you are coming from on the list thing. I only have to walk in to the next room now days and say to my husband, what did I come in here for?! I started to play some memory games to see if I can improve my memory lol… but im not sure that will ever happen!
I thing I should give them a try, don’t want to be going senile in my 30s!
Yep, I’m all about lots of lists and little execution. But small children are always a handy excuse!