Yay for me!

So today I passed a test. My poker buddies called trying to get me to go out and play poker. Of course I want too, it's fun, there is the chance to win money which is always a happy occasion and who doesn't want to spend time with their friends. But I said no. In addition to the chance that I could lose a lot of money that I don't have. There is the likelyhood that I would have been drunk by now. Which in turn means tomorrow is a write-off. I have plans for tomorrow and goals that I want to accomplish and that just doesn't work if I get hamm-a-lammered tonight.

My new list of goals

My new list of goals

1/2 - cook about a month worth of meals (20 supper and 20 breakfast)
YES - do some decluttering (who can't say that)
NO - mow the lawn for the first time, maybe even rake
YES - fix door in the addition
YES - put door on pan cabinet
YES - move Tupperware cabinet onto counter
YES - pull out stove and clean behind it
- organize my coupons
- finish painting my stairs
- insulate door in the addition
- put work schedule on outlook
- clean out and drywall addition and mudroom
- wash pillows
- change CFL in living room lamp (tedious and time consuming)
- move storage cabinet into the addition
- golf on Wednesday
- baseball on Thursday

So I haven't cooked any suppers yet and I haven't yet decided what I want to cook. I have to peruse some recipes and figure that out.

I often joke about having adult ADHD but the older I get the more I think that it might be more true than funny. Either that or I have a case of the bi-polar. (No offense intended to anyone clinically diagnosed with either ailment, please read further before you get angry.)

I woke up today and I was terrified because I had this crazy dream about a door being in the wall of my basement that only homeless people knew about and used to congregate in my basement when it was cold or rainy. At any rate, after the terror had passed, I got up with some vigour and excitement about the day ahead. I had no definite plan but I felt that today would be productive. And it appears I was right although nothing I did was actually intended.

I made a nice breakfast of waffles and bacon when I awoke and I have discovered that the downfall of regular meals is that you get hungry on a regular basis. I usually don't eat more than one meal a day so this three meal thing is a pain. So I decided I would take a couple of steaks out of the freezer for later. I went into the addition and immediately got sidetracked by a bag of recycling. Before I got to the freezer, I went back into the house to grab some newspapers for the recycling bag.

ASIDE - Usually when I go grocery shopping, I come in the back door with the bags because the kitchen is right there instead of dragging them through the house. During the winter, probably sometime in January, I came in the back door and then spent about 45 minutes trying to get it shut. It was hard to close and I didn't even try to open it again until last week when I figured that the winter melt was over and the door would be easy to open. Well I didn't try because I noticed that the deadbolt was bent as the door had obviously shifted quite dramatically. (Very scary - what does that mean for my foundation? I won't even worry about that until I have to.)

Anyhoo, when I came back with the recycling, my next thought was, Hmm, I should try to get that door open and I can take the recycling out now. So after about an hour, two screwdriver bits and a fair amount of swearing. I did get the door fixed, which is ok after all it was on my list of goals. Oh yes, I have added a few new goals and added the things I did that I didn't plan on. I know I won't get the drywall up in the mudroom and addition but I do intend on cleaning them out. Then I decided I wanted to move my coffeemaker. That involved moving a small cabinet from one counter to another. I then decided to finally put the door on the counter I had just moved the cabinet from. I had put it off because I thought it would be difficult. Guess what, it took me about 10 seconds. Stupid, stupid, why do I procrastinate?!

So all of this took about two and a half hours. I was sweaty and tired and sat down to take a long gulp of my water bottle. I then noticed an odd pain. Damn, I never did take the bloody steaks out of the freezer.

As a result, I went to the addition and I took out the steaks. It was actually a struggle to stay focused. I had so many little projects zipping through my head. But I did take them out and have them for supper and it was fantastic. All that done because of steaks for supper.

Three and a half days left.