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Today's Strategy

November 18th, 2006 at 02:38 pm

I have a love/hate relationship with weekends. I love them because they abound with time and possibility. I hate them because I usually wind up doing mundane meaningless crap I don't feel like getting to during to week.

And thus the segue into today's strategy Big Grin

My mother is coming over at about 10 this morning, so that's in 40 minutes. I've given up getting the house straightened, the dishes done, or the floors swept before she gets here. Luckily, my mother keeps a plaque on her wall that says "My house was clean yesterday, Wish you could have seen it!", so I don't think she'll mind too much! That, and I'm secretly hoping this will shame DH into getting his butt in gear and helping around the house. Unfortunately, the liklihood of this happening is slim to none, and slim just walked out the door...

*sigh* Not gonna start the housework rant again. All it does is get me frustrated and depressed and feeling like a single mom. Which is weird, as I'm 28 with no kids.

Anywho, my mom is coming over because we have a plan of attack for Thanksgiving shopping. Woohoo, attack attack! My favoritist grocery store has a special till Tuesday: buy $50 in groceries, get a free 10 lb turkey. While I could easily find $50 in stuff to buy, I don't need $50 in stuff. So mom and I are heading to the store together to shop to TG and put all our bits onto one ticket, to make sure we each only get what we need and can still hit the $50 mark. Pretty frugal, no?

I also will hit 5 other stores at some point, though perhaps not today. Walgreens has my deoderant BOGO (one week after CVS, I wonder if it's about to be discontinued?). Publix has Coke products on sale, CVS has Kashi cereal on sale, and I need cat food from PetSmart. Oh, and coffee from Garner's. Sounds like a lot of driving around, but all are within a 4 mile radius. I love living near downtown! I would also love living in the country, but that will have to wait for a time in my life when I'm able to run errands during the week, not just on the weekend.

This afternoon will be spent in a meeting. Yes, a meeting, on the weekend. Grrrrrrrrrr.... I'm helping a cigar customer/friend format a book that he is going to publish, which is pretty cool. Even get to do the cover design myself, also cool.

Not cool is the fact that said friend, brilliant as he is at financial forecasting, is about 80 yrs old working on a 6 year old PC and has no real clue what he's doing when it comes to computers. Let's put it this way: there are 75 tables in the book, and he made them all look like tables by lining text up using spaces, rather than actually creating tables. FORMATTING NIGHTMARE!!! Plus he's using a older version of Word, which winds up messing most if not all of the formatting corrections I make during any given revision.

Absolute frustration in 10... 9... 8... 7... You get the picture. Not a particularly fun way to plan on spending a Saturday afternoon.

And thus is the outline of today's strategy. Tommorow? Who knows about tomorrow: it too abounds with time and possibilities. Most likely, though, it will involve a trip to Home Depot for an axe/maul combo and some serious leaf raking. yay =/

4 Responses to “Today's Strategy”

  1. Aleta Says:
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    You do have an interesting life. Seems as if there's no dull moments. You do have a wonderful talent and helping the man with his project. There's a real need for that. Even in high schools, they love having someone to help with their books. You could probably make some money doing this.

    As for the husband, it sounds like he sees things differently. You know what they say, sometimes you have to be the first one to change. Your change will definitely cause the other person to react differently to you and what you're doing. Everyone has their light bulb moments. Think about how you felt when you starting realizing your own financial maze amd how excited you got. Everything takes time. Even me, I bought the Candle Trio thing yesterday from Glade. Really cute. I had a $5. coupon. I also found it cheaper at a Publix for $9.99 and with the coupon well you know. I came home and said now where am I going to put these 3 candle holders$ I'm thinking twice now when I buy things that will take up my precious space.

  2. yummy64 Says:
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    Tina,

    Have you tried flylady? If not you might want to. I read her list sporadically but am also in another list for flylady's who work which is AMAZING. I know I likely sound like a cult member but it has changed how I look at housework. As you change how you look at housework and what you with respect to housework quite often the men/kids in your life will change too. It is a different approach than using a mallet and giving them a sharp wake up call (however that does sound like a nice idea at times, LOL).

  3. PRICEPLUS Says:
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    It sounds like you have your hands full at the moment. Just remember that this too shall pass. I, like your husband, do not like doing house work! I will dust and vacuum but my wife will follow up an hour later with a critique and a re-doing of the work!

    I get very annoyed when I try to help and get judged on how well I did it. You musses a spot. The dishes are not clean enough!!! AARRGGGHHHHH!!!!

    When you feel that stressed you can comfort yourself knowing that this too shalll pass!Smile

  4. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Hehe, but you DO have a child. Your hubby! Big Grin Just wait until you have more of them though. Mini-me hubbies running. Then the fun will really begin.

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