Long Weekend - Day 3

I did quite a bit yesterday - not all of it was good, but I got lots done. It is time to start the last day of this long weekend on a good note and just get it all done. Tomorrow, it is back to the grind, but today is just for me to do what I need to do around here.

The dishwasher is still clogged. It got worse when I tried to "fix" it, so I will need to call someone else in to fix things up. I will do that around 8am when the business opens to see if they can come in today. If not, I'm not sure what I will do - perhaps they can come tomorrow after I am finished with work. I hope I can get things to work pretty soon because I am just not able to continue with things the way they are. Blech!

I need to get to cooking up some food for my next several days at work and here at home. I'm trying some new nutritional programs, so I have to get going to keep up the momentum. I am navigating the things that I cannot eat versus the things that I will not eat (there are LOTS of things on these lists, believe you me!). I am trying really hard to get going with all of this stuff in order to get more healthy and feel better in my skin. Right now, though, I am just trying to figure out what to write about and how to get things going around here.

I have lots of little things to do - hang shelves, buy frames for a sheet music collection display idea that I have for my downstairs bedroom, fold clothing, vacuum upstairs and downstairs, get the robots vacuuming again, cleaning dishes, doing laundry, reading books, trying to use things, and not spend money!

It's time for a list, I think.

Too many things on the list to accommodate the other things that I want to do, but stuff has to get done around here. I've neglected things too much these past months, and it has reached a critical junction. So, the to-do list has to be addressed.

It is past time.

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