Today's To Do List

I thought I'd share a look into why my time spins out of control. I often sit down in the morning (or the night before) to jot down a list of what I need to get done. What I need to get done and what I want do do are usually not the same things. For example, I need to wash the cloth wipes today but I would far rather be trying out a new daikon recipe. I need to process the daikons before they go bad but since they keep fairly well, it's not urgent to do it today.


Absolutely have to get done today:

• Wash cloth wipes - they've soaked for 24 hours already which is far too long. I'm out, too, which means I'm wasting toilet paper. Maybe I should go get that done now rather than sit here writing this post...
  
  • DONE - by hand, which took hours. New post coming up about this.


• Put together more instant meal packs for mother-in-law - she's home from the hospital but still tired and weak. Hubby is heading down tomorrow for a visit and we think it would help for her to have easy-to-prepare healthy meals on hand for the next week or two.
  
  • DONE - I used a blend of unbleached flour, cornmeal, and oat flour for the biscuit mix.


• Grind wheat berries into flour - we're out of whole wheat flour and I need some to make the biscuit mix for the meal packs. I'll do that this afternoon so I can watch the Olympics while pedaling.
  
  • DONE - by my sweetie. He's so nice!

Ought to get done today:

• Email a couple of recipes promised to CSA friends.
  
  • DONE


• Dig out last week's leftover CSA produce and figure out what to make with it for lunch.
  
  • DONE - BBQ bean burritos with arugula & mizuna


• Set up the solar oven (now!) so I can cook with the sun....once I figure out what to cook. (Are you starting to see how my plans fall apart?) Oh, damn. Just looked outside and it's overcast. Never mind...


• Take a long walk or bike ride. I've been neglecting my New Year's goals.
  
  • NOT DONE - heavy rain earlier. Laundry problems led to exhaustion from upper body workout. May get a little workout from grinding flour.


• Clean the bathroom - it's bad.
  
  • DONE

Things I should be doing every day but usually don't make time to do:

• Stretches/exercises for my TMJ - they only take about 6 minutes but I am supposed to do them 6 times per day. I'm lucky to get them done once or twice.


• Physical therapy for my shoulder - this is acting up again and likely contributing to the frequent dizziness I am currently experiencing.


• Leg stretches - would probably really help with current foot pain.


• Back exercises and stretches - I need to do these regularly to ease back into a regular core workout to gain strength to prevent back injuries.


• Flossing - might as well throw it in there, especially since I go to the dentist in just over a week. Eek.

Ongoing list of things I keep trying to get done but make little headway on:

• Straighten up the house - it'd be nice to have the whole house looking nice at the same time. Ha!


• Decluttering of specific areas - I have a list but the progress is really, really slow.


• Clean up the computer files, including email (again).


• Actually visit every single link listed in my sidebar. Haven't done that in ages and feel like I should to make sure I want to keep all of them on here.


• Write half a dozen blog posts that I've been meaning to write, in at least one case, for over a year.

These lists don't include a variety of other things I need to do such as pick up a big load of chicken manure next week, get more broken hay for the compost - I'll need it for the chicken manure, pick up more buckets for the garden, pick the fruit off my citrus trees, pick the fruit of two other people's citrus trees (mostly for the Food Bank), check with my neighbors about their fruit tree, read and return a friend's book, read and review some books for here, keep up with maintaining the Book List on the Blogging Bookworm, and so on. Oh yeah, and find a house.

Please, someone call me up and give me something fun to do! Or come help me with the chores because they are more enjoyable with company. I'll feed ya....raw daikons if nothin' else!

*Time spent writing, editing and publishing this post instead of doing something on one of the lists above: 42 minutes.