I started the day with an excellent todo list. We’re rapidly heading towards teatime, and the list is barely even touched. I don’t feel like I’ve stopped, and yet I can’t quite work out what I’ve done.
So I thought I’d take a look at my list, review the day and see if I can work out what’s gone wrong and how to make tomorrow better.
Tomorrow won’t include swimming lessons, so that will be an improvement. Staggering around with a seized back this morning, fitting in several feeds, and getting all the children out of the house for a 10.30 lesson felt like some kind of miracle at the time. I had packed snacks, got my mostly charged netbook, my list of blogposts to do, emails to answer and so on. And instead the baby needed lots more feeding, the toddler required entertaining and there was paralympics on the television which was distracting in all sorts of different ways.
Fast forward to getting home and by the time we’d all got drenched on the way in from the car (shower lovely weather forecast lady? Deluge I think you’ll find.), meaning that the washing on the line got an extra rinse and the tent in the garden is being well destruction tested (two things that now get rolled over til tomorrow for dealing with) and I was a bit frantic. But I managed to sit down and finish a whole blogpost that really needed finishing, so you have the chance to win tickets to an Aardman modelling workshop 😉
And then I managed to do some redrafting for t’other half, and work through half a dozen emails, meaning that my admin list is thinning out. Though I still have to learn more about UIA Household Insurance, to look into the possibility of hiring a campervan for kentwell michaelmas, to source more natural linen for second shifts and a variety of other odd bits to finish off.
I’m beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel though. I’ve still got pizza dough to put on, and I need to find the stupid gizmo thingy for the coop banking so that I can set up the payment for the World Vision fractional child that Merry was organising. (You do remember that, don’t you? The thing where lots of bloggers gathered together to sponsor more children in Niger.) What is with companies and stupid gizmo things anyway? I suppose making it impossible for people to use banking systems at all does increase security to some extent.
Time is rolling on and some of what I need to do is time dependent. Including putting on the pizza dough for tea. Aargh, which reminds me, I needed to pop out for tomatoes and cheese. And it’s nappy change time.
If I ever wondered why my todo lists so often defeat me, today is forming a beautiful explanation of that. I haven’t included the maths lesson I’m trying to give as I’m typing this up, or the whinging toddler that I’m trying to soothe.
Just another normal Thursday. Roll on Friday. Please.
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