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Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

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Here lately I’ve been busy, but just don’t feel like I’m getting anything done. Have you ever had that feeling? Well I have it more often than not. I’ve been thinking about how I can get more accomplished and not being overwhelmed.

As everyone knows, I’m an avid Flylady “stalker” and have been for years. Her voice is permenatly installed into my psyche telling me little things to do each day. I guess that she would call that auto-pilot. Even after all of these years, there are some things that I’m just not good with following through on. I end up getting pretty upset with myself, or overwhelmed when I need to do large projects.

Flylady suggests to break things down into small “baby steps.” I’ve been doing this for years, but at times I get tripped up and take giant steps because I hesitated to start. Sometimes the mountain just looks too high.

So today I’m going to make a plan for the week, and for today. Not an elaborate plan, but something simple. On my todoodlist for today is call for 2 appointments, Buy Groceries, and do my Weekly Home Blessing, and get some exercise in.

Now for the kicker. In the past if I didn’t keep my todoodlist, I would get frustrated and throw it out. To look at it made me beat myself up on the inside. Why? I always felt like I was failure, and couldn’t even complete the whole list. I started thinking. How about all of the stuff on the list that I did mark off! Why not write things down that I just finished, so that I feel accomplished? Its my list, why can’t I do it like I want to!

So starting today, I’m going to open my Control Journal and *gasp* use it! My friend Christy did a roundup of Control Journal’s and other Household Notebooks if you need help  making your own. And there are some great pictures of one on Flickr by Mrs. Happy Housewife.

So now, on to planning in a way that I can’t fail.

100 things I hate

This post idea is shamelessly stolen from Amber, but then again she stole it too.

I HATE…

1. Finals
2. Reading books that have no “personality”
3. that my shoulder pain keeps moving
4. cleaning my house
5. AT&T, especially hate the wirless service
6. that only AT&T has the iPhone
7. weedeating
8. bugs
9. carpet stains
10. When I really can’t keep my eyes open, but its not time to nap
11. When I really can’t sleep and its time to sleep
12. when the other side of the bed is cold and empty
13. when people don’t consider your schedule
14. when people cast judgment, especially when they have NO CLUE what’s going on
15. that I’m taking a class on racism
16. that race exists
17. that I don’t have an athletic body
18. that any child should ever be treated as an adult
19. that it is unacceptable for me to go bra-less everywhere
20. that I have any body hair
21. some people turn things around just for their own amusement
22. I’m not in the pool today
23. that I don’t have a pool.
24. and a raft floating in the pool
25. and my honey beside me on the raft, floating in the pool
26. that money makes the go round
27. that I have headaches that just don’t stop
28. allergies
29. that everything that I enjoy comes in plastic
30. or has pesticides on it
31. or too much sugar
32. or fat
33. or just yucky stuff
34. that laundry ever needs to be done
35. socks
36. that I don’t automatically know things that I think I should
37. that teleporters are not real
38. weeds
39. that weed has really messed up a friend
40. that not everyone gets my sarcasm
41. adultery
42. child abuse
43. sexual child abuse
44. rape
45. any kind of abuse, that should cover it
46. that all magnets are not made equal
47. that things keep falling off of my fridge
48. a person that should remain nameless
49. and a lot of other people’s actions
50. that I’m only halfway here. wow that’s a lot of hate
51. that I hate so many things
52. that our school system sucks
53. that homeschooling isn’t something I can manage for all of my kids
54. that I need money
55. that I can’t find something that requires little effort and lots of cash
56. and that’s legal
57. and ethical
58. that when you self clean your oven, it makes it like a furnace in your kitchen
59. that there are so many toxic cleaners in Walmart
60. that bleach smells like an old lady
61. when old ladies expect me to be a certain way and do certain things without being told or asked
62. cancer
63. that I rarely finish anything that I start
64. I’m not a lot more organized
65. that my kids are growing up so fast
66. that my son is repeating 5th grade, because of what happened 2 years ago
67. that my Mama is not more like my “mentor”
68. that my sister is lonely, but chooses that lifestyle for herself
69. that our country is in the situation it is in.
70. that I can’t color all day, and get paid for it!
71. that my sense of style isn’t what my boyfriend’s is
72. that I don’t have the voice of an angel when she sings.
73. when kids change clothes several times in a day, just because
74. that there are people out there that have never heard of God
75. or accepted him as their Savior
76. that religion has gotten out of hand
77. that my boyfriend is working out of town
78. when I can’t stop thinking about something negative
79. when some people are just idiots, and don’t know it
80. when I don’t know what laundry detergent to buy.
81. when someone asks me to pick them up anything (to eat)
82. when someone asks me to pick somewhere to go, and I do, then they don’t want to go there.
83. Voice mail.
84. when parents don’t take care of their children
85. when parents don’t see any wrong in their children.
86. snakes
87. pens that don’t write
88. pencils that won’t stay sharp
89. erasers that don’t erase
90. dryers that don’t dry
91. empty soap dispensers
92. empty toilet paper dispensers
93. empty paper towel dispensers
94. fast food “workers” that can’t get your order right
95. when anyone is taken advantage of
96. when my nails break and I can’t find a file.
97. paper cuts
98. razor cuts
99. nair burns
100. regular burns

I Heart Faces Awesome Giveaway

This is an amazing Giveaway from I Heart Faces.

Just because I’m in a hotel…

I can wash dishes with tiny bottles of off-brand dish soap that doesn’t work.

I can have 2 computers running at once, and another on the other side of the room.

I can have lots of bottles of medication everywhere, and stuff all of my things into Scotts shaving kit.

I can write notes, wear my cute new sunglasses and eat lemonheads without any kids distracting me.

I can crochet, and play games with my honey.

Or even take funny pictures of myself when I’m bored.

I can sneak around the hotel and take pictures of the housekeeping carts while the housekeeper isn’t looking.

And drink tomato tea, even if it makes the room smell like garlic.

And watch Scott shave his head, but only from afar, because he will cut the $%^& out of himself if he knows I’m doing it.

And yes he knew I took this one, and didn’t care at all.

And finally, I can try to look sexy and goofy all at the same time, and only me and a few others know.

“Housekeeping”

This week I’ve been in a hotel suite yet again. Its nicer than in a regular hotel room, but not quite a studio apartment. One of the things I love to hear is knock knock knock “Housekeeping.”

The lady comes in quietly, watches tv with me, chats with me, or just ignores me altogether. I really don’t care a whole lot how they act as long as its civil and they do the potty.

This got me to thinking, as I was comming back from doing laundry. How can I make this work in my own house?

1. Make sure that I pick up before I start cleaning.

2. Have everything ready in a little cart. (where can i get a cart like that?)

3. Just hurry and do it, like it or not.

So now I’m going to Craigslist and search for a housekeeping cart or maybe a job to pay for a housekeeper to go with it.

The summer head cold. (Tomato Tea)

The last few days Scott and I have had a summer head cold. we’ve taken OTC meds and they reek havoc on our sleeping schedules. We’ve gone from not sleeping, to sleeping 12+ hours to not sleeping and back again. Neither of us have been on the same schedule at the same time.

As I sit here this morning, I’m sipping on a new tea. New to me. This tea isn’t anything you can buy in the grocery store,  health food store, or even order online. I’ve been up for a couple hours and have been quite miserable with the coughing and congestion. About 5 minutes ago I pulled my tea out and warmed up a cup, and WOW! I feel the effects already.

If I had taken one of the OTC’s or even a prescription medication, there is no way that it would have started working by now. Most medications have adverse effects on me. If its a nighttime medication, I will be up all night, and vice-versa for Daytime meds. Now and then something will work, but it doesn’t usually work the next time I’m sick.

So on with it, I know that you are wondering what this new “miracle” tea may be. Well here’s the recipe:

Recipe: Tomato Tea

Ingredients

• 2 cups V8 Juice
• 2-3 cloves Garlic crushed (use more if you can)
• 2 T Lemon
• Juice Hot Sauce (the more the better, so as much as you can handle)

Instructions

1. Mix and heat in a pan or in the microwave. Sip slowly and re-warm as needed to get the full effects of the fumes. Let it sit in the back of your throat to bathe it. Suck the fumes through your sinuses and also down into your lungs. Its all natural and healthy, so drink as much of it as you want or need until you are SURE the infection is gone. This is past the time when you “feel better.”

My rating: 5.0 stars

Recipe by on.

For reviews and more information : Earth Clinic

Whatcha Reading?

Hey look who I found!

I have been doing the Blog Hop the last two days and have found some great blogs out there that I’d love to share with you. I’m so glad to have found even more blogs to read, and some amazing new friends. Thanks for the comments, emails and tweets from everyone lately. I’ve been having a blast.

Now go click away!

Studio Jewel by Lisa who also has thebeadgirl Etsy shop. (Thanks for the wonderful words that you left for me)

Chick Critique by Regular Women for Regular Women. (lots of authors in other words)

Green Earth Journey by Hyla (Thanks for everything! You are an amazing mama!)

One Nerve Left by Lizz (Thanks for making me laugh until I almost wet my pants)

The Journey by: Christi (Hey she spells her name right so she is def in my list! )

His Fire Fly Photography by Rick, writing by his wife (name?) (WOW is all I can say!)

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