Getting on a Schedule

1. I am a procrastinator. I work best under pressure and I can not for the life of me make myself work ahead.
2. I love lists. I love crossing "to do"s off of my lists.

So, I am now trying to combine these two conflicting parts of my personality into some semblance of a schedule for housekeeping/cleaning/decluttering/etc.

I am going to vacuum, dust, mop, clean once a week. One day downstairs, one day upstairs. I am going to work through one room/group of rooms the other three days during the week on a rotating basis throughout each month. This way, I should not have to do any housework other than picking up on the weekends and the house should always be company ready.

I am making a schedule with detailed lists of what I want to accomplish each day. I am setting deadlines. This way I am almost constantly marking off my "to do"s and I am also working against a deadline in order to satisfy my inner-procrastinator.

Borrowed Wisdom

This post was copied in whole from one of my good friends at The Conservative Bulwark.

http://theconservativebulwark.com/index.php

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago , another is from Tennessee , and the third is from Minnesota .

All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The
Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the
other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."

"Done!" replies the government official.

And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan will work.

Hat tip to Cosmoh for the story! 8-)

Okay, So I'm Gonna Say It . . .

Do you remember that card game everyone used to play? It had many names: Cheat, BS, I Doubt It, etc. I, however, learned to play the game when it was called "Bullshit".

On the table there is a discard pile, which starts empty. A turn consists of discarding one or more cards face down on the pile and calling out their rank. The first player must discard Aces, the second player discards Twos, the next player Threes, and so on. Since the cards are discarded face down, you don't actually have to play the rank you are calling. For example, if it is your turn to discard Sevens, you can actually discard any card or mixture of cards; in particular, if you don't have any Sevens you will be forced to play some other card or cards.

Any player who suspects that the card(s) discarded by a player do not match the rank called can challenge the play by calling "Bullshit". Then the cards played by the challenged player are exposed and one of two things happens:

1. if they are all of the rank that was called, the challenge is false, and the challenger must pick up the whole discard pile;
2. if any of the played cards is different from the called rank, the challenge is correct, and the person who played the cards must pick up the whole discard pile.

So, in honor of this wonderful past time of my youth, I am calling "Bullshit" on this "stimulus" package. See how great this card game plays into how this thing has spiraled out of control. We don't know what is in it, but I am betting what they are telling us isn't the truth - not even close to it.

If I'm wrong, then America wins, eh, maybe. If I'm right, then Ameria is going to be picking up the cards for a really, really long time.

Facebook

I have been on facebook for a while now. I was introduced to it by one of my internet mommy friends. After our message board blew up, most of the mommies on the board moved over to facebook to keep in touch.

Over the past couple of months, though, I have also reconnected with so many of my high school classmates on facebook. One of my really, really close friends that I lost contact with in college and never thought I would hear from again - there she is on facebook.

It's amazing what technology can do to bring people back together. And I also discovered that I like more of the people from high school as adults than I did as high school kids. I have a feeling, though, that is a pretty universal feeling throughout all of us who have reconnected. High school kids just suck that way, you know.

So, if you aren't already on facebook (and I know most of you are), you might want to consider just setting up a very simple page just to see who finds you. It's very quick and very simple. You can set it up so that you have to approve anyone who wants to be your friend and you can set up your profile so that only your friends can see. It's a little like myspace, but it doesn't scare me as much as myspace for some reason.