Well, no more. On a few items anyway. The Fibro is currently beaming under the weight of freshly steam-cleaned carpets (bonus: under the bed no longer requires dusting - result!). I realise now why I put it off for so long as well. It took one hour to do and yet the furniture is still cluttering up the hallway, awaiting the moment when the carpet is truly dry. I have a bad feeling that once you wet the carpet it will forever feel 'slightly damp', either in reality or in my mind. Jumping over the magazine rack to get to the bathroom is rapidly growing old though.
My second achievement was to arrive at the framing shop with two lovely prints that Mr4 received for his first birthday. Time moves slowly in the Fibro. After half an hour of discussing frames and matting and foamcore and wires, the pictures are in the hands of the expert and will be returned to me, ready to hang, in a fortnight. Are you wondering why it took me so long to get around to this? I know that I am.
So there you have it. An achieving kind of day. I feel ready to tackle anything. Well, anything but the next item on my Lifetime To Do List, that is.
What's on your Lifetime To Do List? Are there things that take you an apparent lifetime to get around to doing?
[image: how cute are these notebooks from ShePinTea/etsy - just the thing for a Lifetime To Do List.]
The carpet clean (twice yearly, as a result of parents in law visits) is a done deal for me.
ReplyDeleteBut photos....eeeek!
They are my "when I get around to it..." thing.
When I am an old lady of 87, I shall still be promising myself to "sort out" three generations of photographs...
Oh, how I wish I could be organised enough to get the carpets cleaned. And the windows, while we're at it.
ReplyDeleteMy big "to do" right now is to go through the giant pile of magazines hiding behind the study door, tear out all the recipes/pictures/articles/whatevers that I want to keep and recycle the rest.
Maybe next weekend?!
Well, you already know about the vacuum cleaner cord...
ReplyDeleteI think I was the bringer of one of those first birthday pictures. I'm shocked. Well, not really. I mean, I did grow up with you. But still, a little shocked. x
Pictures, blinds ... these are All Stars on my life list. I used to think that if I finished my list, I could retire. But alas, I'm pretty sure I'd just end up with a whole new cast of All Stars to get to know, and then promptly avoid.
ReplyDeleteI am soon to cross of 'write will' from my list. Amazing how long one can live without one. Hope I don't die as soon as I sign it. That would be worthy of an Alanis Morrissette song...
@DiminishingLucy - please don't mention the photos...
ReplyDelete@Austflaneur - or the recipes...
@Maxabella - the picture will be very lovely. Now.
@Therhythmmethod - the Will is the one thing I can say that I've done.
I'd like to unpack the rest of my office - it will take a lifetime, I just know it.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a great feeling of accomplishment!
ReplyDeleteI would love to get the carpets steamed but there is absolutely no place to put the furniture. So, for now, I do little spot cleans!
Does "shave my legs" count?? I gotta get around to that one of these days ...
ReplyDeletemy lifetime list seems to have been taken hostage by my partner Aaron, although he is very kind to read of this list to me every night when I come home from work. :)
ReplyDeleteI have a list too long to write here . A goodly number are jobs I started 10 years ago and got to the stage of " That's good enough for now ..." Any moment in time can change my priorities . Guilt and shame have no affect on me now . Only 'someone may come to serious harm if I don't do this' works on me . Those one's I do within a day .
ReplyDeleteI did my one lifetime list item. Have a child. Now it's time to relax. When do we get to relax?
ReplyDeleteRecent move o/s meant an entire lifetime of to dos had to get done in record time. It was exhausting! Now I am busy growing a whole new list. Like this great photo I found when packing that I want to blow up and frame. THe negative has travelled in my handbag across the world... I almost did it yesterday. Oh god, there is no hope!
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Shit. I don't have a list. I think I am about to do a post about the one book you would recommend everyone read in their lifetime because I've realised there are so many I've missed out on. So maybe just educate myself a bit more? And write my own book and stop dicking around.
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That's great! We have so many half finished projects around here it's not funny. As for achievements, we finally put the fire place in :) - nothing like -6 degrees to motivate you!
ReplyDeleteHa! I just read this post now. I've just posted on my blog the deep philosophical question of whether our 20 year old selves are happy with what we've done with our lives now that we are 30 plus-some-and-a-little-bit-more older :-)
ReplyDeleteLifetime to-do lists. Makes me feel better if I don't get it all done today.
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what about just crossing things off - like without actually doing them. It's a skill to be learnt, like saying "no". There are more things in live you don't actually have to do, but most people never questioned it: putting a load of washing on every day, sticking photos in an album, writing Christmas cards,cooking dinner every day, ironing...
ReplyDeleteI personally ditched the photo sticking, I'll get around to it when I am a grandmother and until then, I am not thinking about it. Liberating!!!
oh sooo many things! But the biggest thing is putting all of my old photos on the wall in the collection of matching white frames that I bought AGES ago..Oh and I am always planning on arranging all of my Penguin Classics artfully together on a book shelf somewhere(i saw it once in a magazine and liked the look). If I ever get around to that, I will let you know!
ReplyDeleteI have no such list although I could probably start one. #1 would be to have the TV antenna properly installed so it doesn't rip itself off the roof again in the next big windstorm.
ReplyDeleteLearning to touch type properly is on my list. I moved it to the 52in52 list this year so hopefully I will tick it off. No signs yet x
ReplyDeleteHaha:)..:P...You must be like "Phew!!!...finally"..:P..:) congrats:) Well on my Lifetime To do list is to learn Salsa with a guy who either makes me fall in love or whom I love;) many other things in addition to that though, like controlling my temper etc....:P
ReplyDeleteI'm supposed to be the family record keeping "expert" yet 12 years later I still don't have a proper wedding album, the munchkin's baby book hasn't been updated since his first birthday (he's nearly 5) and family photo albums - well...
ReplyDeletePlus the carpets and couches need steam cleaning (waiting for my new studio to be built - been waiting 6 months now!), the deck railings need to be painted, the veggie garden needs "upgrading" so it actually grows veggies, and I'd really like to create some cute silvery decorating thingie for the fairy garden.
Well done Allison for getting something on your life list done. They're usually things that DO matter. It's a lot of the other stuff we spend time on that doesn't.
I have these lists so long that I need to have a list to say, go to the list.
ReplyDeleteIf I have someone to ring..I tend to put it off if I can til I have a few then ring them all in a row! Other things I have put off and then I get to the point that I no longer want that thing done..the idea is past it's use by date, so I've probably saved a fair bit of money by now. There has to be one upside of procrastination!
ReplyDeleteI have many things on that lifetime list. I always feel a sense of accomplishment if I knock off at least one of them each day though. You should feel extra proud, knocking two off in one day :o)
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to lose the 15 pounds of flesh that seem to have crept up on me over the years! But at least I have my health.
ReplyDeleteReading all the books in our home library... every last one of them. That really will take a lifetime, but that's a happy kind of task. gxo
ReplyDeletei'd like to travel by myself - that's the top of my list at the moment. stopping by from the rewind. x
ReplyDeleteHubby did the steam cleaning of the carpet a few months back and admitted he actually enjoyed it! Now Baby Holly is flat out crawling, it's time to tackle it again. :)
ReplyDeleteTransferring all my super into the same account. Instead I keep on transferring the to-do entry in my diary from one month to the other.
ReplyDeleteUpdating our contents insurance to actually vaguely reflect what we have. We would be in serious trouble in case of fire. Or (the way I like to see it) we wouldn't be able to replace half the crap we have and we'd finally only have what we actually need and use.
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ReplyDeleteStill haven't put up my family photos! The second post in this weekend's Rewind that has reminded me of something I still haven't done. Must stop making comments about things "I am going to do".
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend
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my list would be a mile long, but yet it seems that the daily life gets in the way of the things i manage to keep putting off. but someday, i will clean my carpets, paint my room and organize my photos.
ReplyDeleteOh! That list! Yes, seems I have one of those. Because who thought it was a good idea to scrapbook the first two years of each child's life? Right?
ReplyDeleteTook me five years to do the first one and I've got two more to do which would require me actually printing off photos. Yep. Put that on the list too. LOL
Ummm, I'll stop. I have a LOT on my to do list.
So how do those pictures look?
I find getting the carpets cleaned makes me feel like an uber domestic goddess. Obviously it doesn't take much.
ReplyDeleteStill haven't had any joy with the touch typing! I saw your lifetime lists framed pics in the flesh the other day and they look fab! Thanks for Rewinding x
ReplyDeleteOh this sort of list is never ending really isn't it? I actually just got our carpets cleaned after talking about doing for over a year. Only because we were having friends over :-) this weekend rewind is fun
ReplyDeleteVisiting you from the rewind. ahh framing those prints - always always costs more time choosing and money than you expect! Been there a few times!
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