Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow...

...or next week.

When it comes to house work, this seems to be my motto.  I suck at it.  I look around and think, "If I clean this room up the boys will just mess it up again."  So I don't clean it and it becomes an even bigger mess. 

Martha Stewart I am not but my husband is.  I swear to you that when he cleans, the room sparkles afterwards.  I always marvel at him.  He is just like the energizer bunny when it comes to cleaning, he just keeps going and going until the job is done.  He always tells me you have to clean before you make a mess.  Meaning, if we are going to set up for Christmas and we are going to bring in all the Christmas boxes in we need to clean the whole house  before we can make it a mess with all the boxes.  Me, I say, "the house is how it is, lets decorate."  I'm not sure if that makes any sense. I get overwhelmed by the mess and give up.  There are so many other things to do besides cleaning. 

On that note, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day for me but the time that I have I waste and I don't understand why.  I can spend hours lost in thought or my imagination.  I'm a big fan of the nap and seem to find my way to my bed for a 20 minute snooze everyday.  I waste so much time that by the time my kids get home form school I have so much to do just to keep the house running that I don't feel that I make time for my boys.  My husband always says that he would run thing much better, that he would be a great say at home dad and I would always have a clean house and dinner on the table.  The sad thing is that I know he's right, he would be great, so much better than I am.

Keith, my husband, always tells me that I should put in about 2 hours a day to cleaning and then I would have the rest of the day to do whatever I want.  I know that 2 hours a day is really all day.  I can put in 2 hours of just straight cleaning but there is always something else that needs to be done; grocery shopping, bill paying, dinner making and clean up, the boys homework and school projects, boys activities, rehearsal, and any mess the boys make after I've cleaned up.  I know what your thinking, 'make the boys clean up after themselves.'  Well, that's all well and good but I still have to supervise.  In short, I just feel that there is so much to do that something has to give and housework is one of them.  The other is jewelry but that's another topic.

In all honesty, I want my house to be clean.  I hate the mess and I am disgusted with the dirt.  So heres my plan:  I will devote 1 hour of my day to cleaning something in my house that needs to be clean.  Notice I didn't say 2 hours, I don't want to overwhelme myself, 1 hour of extra clean is more than enough.  So tomorrows extra cleaning is the boys playroom or should I say Malcolm's playroom.  Malcolm has completely distroyed it.  It might take me more than an hour but that is my goal.  I'm also going to make the boys clean their room.  This will be a fight but I'm going to make them do it.

Tomorrow's schedule:
1)exercise
2)clean playroom
3)pay bills
4)dishes and laundry: fold and put them away.  (You might think folding them and putting them away is a given but you would be shocked at how often I do the laundry and let everyone pick through the basket for clean underware and socks.  I hate folding them and loath puting the away.  CRAZY!)
5)go over lines and song.
6)ten minutes of writing.

Well that's the plan, tomorrow I'll make it my reality.
Shel

Goal for 2011

Ok, so tomorrow is the start of my new program I talked about earlier.  I've put it off because of the Holidays but it's time.  I've been doing a little but haven't been really going for it. 

I've made some new goals for myself for this year:

1)  Lose 40 lbs.

2) Audition for the 5th Ave theatre.  They are a professional theatre company.  I'm not planning on getting in, I hear it takes several time auditioning.  I just think it will be good experience for me.

3)  Get my novel written.  It doesn't have to be the finished product just down on paper.  I'm a little ADD and I really need to try and focus.

4)  Get my jewelry up and going.  I am working on my website and hope to have it done soon.  I need someone to take pictures for me.  My camera sucks.  I also want to get my jewelry in some shops.

5)  Get my son ready to start school.  He needs to be able to say his ABC's and write his name.  He has no interest right now.  I still have time for that.

Well, those are my 2011 goals.
I will achieve them if I can stay focused and not become lazy.