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12-11-11 Sunday

9:30 am

                Man I am astoundingly glum today. I suppose because there is so much yuckola stuff I must do, and little fun. Oh I should amend that – I’ve been spinning some really nice variegated orange stuff so there is that to do. I have the bookclub book to finish which is theoretically a good thing to do, except that it is the Scarlet Letter which is not exactly uplifting. Pretty glum stuff. And then there is all the actually yuckola stuff: look at fair stuff, look at mom’s stuff, finish grading the power points (I only have 2 to go, what is the problem?), finances finances finances. As ever I have this green around the gills feel. I feel like my eyes are just drooping and sad. I’ve been feeling crappy stomach-wise. What I must do is just gird myself and start tackling things. Fair stuff first since I was supposed to meet with the workshop coordinator but she postponed so I might as well use the time figuring out what I should have done before the meeting. Funny: last weekend I was at the fair both days, all day. The weekend before I had the fair meeting. this weekend I had nothing (just this meeting and bookclub tonight) which should have been lovely ecstasy, but has been truly glum. Well, I spent a big part of yesterday doing errands. I managed to do some xmas shopping for the girls, and get all kinds of suggestions from K who spent the time telling me what he wants (to be fair I had asked) in great detail while I was wanting to think about getting things for the girls. Then we got groceries and things from cvs. All stuff that needed doing and was the only time to do it, since I so rarely have the car these days. Still it took up most of the day. Today, once K gets home from church I must again take the car and pick up the CSA share. At least it goes all the way through today. I was afraid I had missed it.

                Really the whole reason I am writing is to avoid doing the crappola stuff. Like going through the huge piles of papers. And paying bills. And looking at Mom’s finances. I guess I’d better break it all into tiny steps:

·         Get out the fair notebook

·         Look up the things I should do before fair meeting next week

·         Put the piles of paper on the table

·         Go through one at a time

·         Do the things that need to be done from the pile

·         Check into bills on line

·         Pay any that need paying

·         Pull up the 2 power points I still need to grade

·         Pull up the grading rubric

·         Write comments on them

·         Add grades

·         Check back at all the others to see if the final grades make sense

·         Put final grades on them

·         Send off the filled out rubrics

·         Get out Mom’s finance papers

·         Decide what next steps I need to take:

o   What questions to ask her financial adv

o   What to talk to the accountant about

So does this not all seem like “enough”? I think I will print out this list and get to it.

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