"How Do You Do?" From my To Do List to You

Kevy Baby · 02-01-2005, 11:07 PM

Kevin's to do list:

Live

Cadaverous Pallor · 02-01-2005, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Kevin's to do list:

Live

Well, at least he doesn't feel like a failure at the end of the day.

Claire · 02-01-2005, 11:47 PM

Oh good Lord.

I have this auction creeping up my butt like an errant thong....

Here's my auction to-do list:

~Re-contact all the businesses I first contacted in November and beg them for donations.
~Update my procurement committee on the progress.....haven't done it since last Tuesday.
~Total approximate dollar value of auction items thus far and email it to auction chairs.
~Write overly cheery email to the 45 families in the preschool letting them know that I now considering them on par with my creeping thong since they haven't been turning in all their donation forms. Several of them feel like ingrown hairs, promising much but delivering nada, but I'm going to keep that little nugget of truism to myself.
~Re-re-contact 60 more businesses that I've been hassling and hustling since October.
~Fax a bajillion copies of a form and a letter to the re-contacts and re-re-contacts since the managers/owners of these establishments keep dumping my forms and letters.....but keep stringing me along. I'm the thong in their cracks and I just won't go away.
~Dodge the phone calls of an obsessive-compulsive "I have no life, therefore you must not either, what do you mean you have three kids, work two days a week and you're sick, and you like to leave your house to see other human adults and have a social life and the preschool is not your life, how can the preschool NOT be your life, it's my life and I feel very fulfilled and blessed to be a part of it, it's a co-op and if you don't feel like you can be cooperative then maybe it's not a good fit for you, and I don't need any sleep since I'm not human, I'm actually a robot with zero social skills because hey how can anyone expect me to have social skills when this damn preschool is my fvcking life?" preschool president.
~Put together existing auction items into sizeable packages and "sell" them to the parents as they come and pick up their kids, drop their kids off, or any time they accidentally make eye contact with me, as per the instructions of the obsessive compulsive robot preschool president.
~Kill myself.
~Smile.
~Get drunk at the auction (April 2) and hit on the robot's husband, knowing that I have the full support of my husband who might accidentallyonpurpose run over the robot preschool president in the dark parking lot after the auction.

I might not get to all of the above......but I'm going to try my damnedest, because I'm cooperative and the preschool is my life.

wendybeth · 02-02-2005, 12:21 AM

Claire,

I 'snorked' my drink at "errant thong", and it was downhill from there....

LOL!!!
Even sick, you are hilarious! I bow to you, Suburban Goddess. Good luck with the auction and stuff.*

*I learned to hide from the auction idiots before Tori was out of Kindergarten, but they always nabbed me for a gift basket of haircare **** afterwards. Now I tell them to F/O, since we homeschool and all that....

Claire · 02-02-2005, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by wendybeth

Claire,

I 'snorked' my drink at "errant thong", and it was downhill from there....

LOL!!!
Even sick, you are hilarious! I bow to you, Suburban Goddess. Good luck with the auction and stuff.*

*I learned to hide from the auction idiots before Tori was out of Kindergarten, but they always nabbed me for a gift basket of haircare **** afterwards. Now I tell them to F/O, since we homeschool and all that....

My new title shall read "Auction Idiot" in my mind.

Ponine · 02-02-2005, 09:40 AM

Ponine's To Do List:
Work: Work on, calculate and write up over payments that I have yet to do since I started.
Clean up the crud around and under my desk left over by the person before me. (I got this job the last working day of September)
Find the top of my desk.
Calculate out the two folks goiung on maternity leave.

Remember to stop at the store and get something to bring to the potluck tomorrow. *I think I signed up for drinks
Check with organizier as to what I signed up to bring to the potluck.

Figure out plans for weekend, esp Saturday. Find Childcare.

Clean my room. The tub resurfacers are arriving Monday. No bathroom for three days.

Get off my lazy arse and work on my art journal

Things NOT to do:
Surf the web.
Watch the new movies I just bought.
Sit and play Toontown or Neopets all night.
Finish my book.

Things I should also do:
Go to sleep before 1am.

wendybeth · 02-02-2005, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Claire

My new title shall read "Auction Idiot" in my mind.

No, you misunderstand, dear. The Auction Idiot is :
"Dodge the phone calls of an obsessive-compulsive "I have no life, therefore you must not either, what do you mean you have three kids, work two days a week and you're sick, and you like to leave your house to see other human adults and have a social life and the preschool is not your life, how can the preschool NOT be your life, it's my life and I feel very fulfilled and blessed to be a part of it, it's a co-op and if you don't feel like you can be cooperative then maybe it's not a good fit for you, and I don't need any sleep since I'm not human, I'm actually a robot with zero social skills because hey how can anyone expect me to have social skills when this damn preschool is my fvcking life?" preschool president."

Her. We have one , too- she lives down the hill from us. She used to corner me every year, but now she acts as if I don't exist, and I see her almost daily. Must have something to do with the fact that I told her I'd rather send my donation to a school that actually needs the funds.

Claire · 02-03-2005, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Claire

~Dodge the phone calls of an obsessive-compulsive "I have no life, therefore you must not either, what do you mean you have three kids, work two days a week and you're sick, and you like to leave your house to see other human adults and have a social life and the preschool is not your life, how can the preschool NOT be your life, it's my life and I feel very fulfilled and blessed to be a part of it, it's a co-op and if you don't feel like you can be cooperative then maybe it's not a good fit for you, and I don't need any sleep since I'm not human, I'm actually a robot with zero social skills because hey how can anyone expect me to have social skills when this damn preschool is my fvcking life?" preschool president.

She brought me a huge bouquet of flowers today.

I'm eating crow...a little. But just because she does one nice thing (one extremely over-the-top nice thing) doesn't excuse how she's been treating people. I'm just the one who spoke up.

Made oooooodles of calls today. Progress is happening.

tracilicious · 02-05-2005, 04:47 PM

Realistic to-do list (in other words, things I might actually get done because I am a lazy slob):

Up my posting on the LoT. I'm shamefully low.

Sign up for a session at www.dreamdinners.com. I'm thrilled for this! I can make a month's worth of scrummy dinners in two hours! Woo-hoo! No more eating cheese on bread because I'm too lazy to cook!

Play Mario Party. I'm trying really hard to collect enough coins to unlock a secret map.

Clean the carpets. This has to get done because they look yucky and the ultrasound people are coming to my house (It's an ultrasound service primarily for people having homebirths.)

What I should be doing:

Cleaning the carpets.

Sorting laundry.

Cleaning the whole house.

Harrassing Michael to do his list.

Playing Mario Party ( I really wan that map!)

Vowing never to make another to do list.

lindyhop · 02-05-2005, 07:27 PM

Tips on how to get through your to do list from an astonished procrastinator:

Start with projects and deadlines that will fill up every day for the next two months.

Get call from physical therapist that you've got six more weeks of physical therapy approved. Subtract six hours a week from available work time.

Panic.

Then actually get things done. It's amazing what I'll do to avoid working on Saturdays.

(I keep a written to do list because I can't remember anything. Once in a while I do something that I would have written down but didn't. So I write it down just for the satisfaction of checking it off.

)

02-01-2005, 11:07 PM	#1
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02-01-2005, 11:47 PM	#3
Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	Oh good Lord. I have this auction creeping up my butt like an errant thong.... Here's my auction to-do list: ~Re-contact all the businesses I first contacted in November and beg them for donations. ~Update my procurement committee on the progress.....haven't done it since last Tuesday. ~Total approximate dollar value of auction items thus far and email it to auction chairs. ~Write overly cheery email to the 45 families in the preschool letting them know that I now considering them on par with my creeping thong since they haven't been turning in all their donation forms. Several of them feel like ingrown hairs, promising much but delivering nada, but I'm going to keep that little nugget of truism to myself. ~Re-re-contact 60 more businesses that I've been hassling and hustling since October. ~Fax a bajillion copies of a form and a letter to the re-contacts and re-re-contacts since the managers/owners of these establishments keep dumping my forms and letters.....but keep stringing me along. I'm the thong in their cracks and I just won't go away. ~Dodge the phone calls of an obsessive-compulsive "I have no life, therefore you must not either, what do you mean you have three kids, work two days a week and you're sick, and you like to leave your house to see other human adults and have a social life and the preschool is not your life, how can the preschool NOT be your life, it's my life and I feel very fulfilled and blessed to be a part of it, it's a co-op and if you don't feel like you can be cooperative then maybe it's not a good fit for you, and I don't need any sleep since I'm not human, I'm actually a robot with zero social skills because hey how can anyone expect me to have social skills when this damn preschool is my fvcking life?" preschool president. ~Put together existing auction items into sizeable packages and "sell" them to the parents as they come and pick up their kids, drop their kids off, or any time they accidentally make eye contact with me, as per the instructions of the obsessive compulsive robot preschool president. ~Kill myself. ~Smile. ~Get drunk at the auction (April 2) and hit on the robot's husband, knowing that I have the full support of my husband who might accidentallyonpurpose run over the robot preschool president in the dark parking lot after the auction. I might not get to all of the above......but I'm going to try my damnedest, because I'm cooperative and the preschool is my life. __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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02-02-2005, 12:21 AM	#4
wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	Claire, I 'snorked' my drink at "errant thong", and it was downhill from there.... LOL!!! Even sick, you are hilarious! I bow to you, Suburban Goddess. Good luck with the auction and stuff.* I learned to hide from the auction idiots before Tori was out of Kindergarten, but they always nabbed me for a gift basket of haircare *** afterwards. Now I tell them to F/O, since we homeschool and all that.... __________________
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02-02-2005, 09:40 AM	#6
Ponine Virgin Ears Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,075	Ponine's To Do List: Work: Work on, calculate and write up over payments that I have yet to do since I started. Clean up the crud around and under my desk left over by the person before me. (I got this job the last working day of September) Find the top of my desk. Calculate out the two folks goiung on maternity leave. Remember to stop at the store and get something to bring to the potluck tomorrow. *I think I signed up for drinks Check with organizier as to what I signed up to bring to the potluck. Figure out plans for weekend, esp Saturday. Find Childcare. Clean my room. The tub resurfacers are arriving Monday. No bathroom for three days. Get off my lazy arse and work on my art journal Things NOT to do: Surf the web. Watch the new movies I just bought. Sit and play Toontown or Neopets all night. Finish my book. Things I should also do: Go to sleep before 1am.
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02-05-2005, 04:47 PM	#9
tracilicious avatar transition Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in-between Posts: 2,487	Realistic to-do list (in other words, things I might actually get done because I am a lazy slob): Up my posting on the LoT. I'm shamefully low. Sign up for a session at www.dreamdinners.com. I'm thrilled for this! I can make a month's worth of scrummy dinners in two hours! Woo-hoo! No more eating cheese on bread because I'm too lazy to cook! Play Mario Party. I'm trying really hard to collect enough coins to unlock a secret map. Clean the carpets. This has to get done because they look yucky and the ultrasound people are coming to my house (It's an ultrasound service primarily for people having homebirths.) What I should be doing: Cleaning the carpets. Sorting laundry. Cleaning the whole house. Harrassing Michael to do his list. Playing Mario Party ( I really wan that map!) Vowing never to make another to do list. __________________ And now Harry, let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure! - Albus Dumbledore
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02-05-2005, 07:27 PM	#10
lindyhop Swing Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Long Beach Posts: 997	Tips on how to get through your to do list from an astonished procrastinator: Start with projects and deadlines that will fill up every day for the next two months. Get call from physical therapist that you've got six more weeks of physical therapy approved. Subtract six hours a week from available work time. Panic. Then actually get things done. It's amazing what I'll do to avoid working on Saturdays. (I keep a written to do list because I can't remember anything. Once in a while I do something that I would have written down but didn't. So I write it down just for the satisfaction of checking it off. )
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