One day Christine listed all the things she had accomplished in one day along with taking care of Michael. So I wanted to list all of the things I did on Saturday to see if I am as cool as Christine even though I didn't have a little kid to help me.
1. Got up at 7:30 AM and did my morning stuff
2. Cleaned the bathroom including removing all the hard water gunk build up
3. Changed the sheets on our bed
4. Folded and put away 2 baskets of clothes
5. Cleaned up the closet area
6. Cleaned the kitchen (it was more than usual messy because we had the missionaries as guests for dinner on Friday night)
7. Cleaned the kitchen floor
8. Vaccumed the bedroom, dining room, hall, living room and entry.
9. Dusted every vertical surface in living room
10. Vaccumed all the furniture in living room
11. Cleaned the carpets in the living room, dining room, hall and our bedroom.
12. Mowed the front and back lawn and cleaned the sidewalks and driveway
13. Powerwashed all of the folding chairs
14. Made a cover for the folding chairs so they wouldn't get so dirty in the garage
15. Ate 3 meals and took a 1/2 hour nap
16. Read the newspaper
17. Read 2 chapters in a book called "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society."
18. Corrected tests for 230 students and corrected their homework
19. Posted all of the grades for 5 classes
20. Prepared all of my lessons for next week
21. Generated and printed spreadsheets of all the grades for 3 classes
22. Washed and dried all of the dirty clothes
23. Ironed some of the clothes (not too many though as I'm not a fan of ironing)
24. Recleaned up the kitchen by putting away the clean dishes, reloading the dishwasher and washing the dishes that didn't fit.
25. Took a shower
26. Visited with Daniel, sent Happy Birthday wishes to Leesa and talked to her, and talked to Katie.
26. Made it to bed by 12:30 AM
27. I almost forgot, I picked up a weeks worth of poop in the backyard.
6 comments:
First thing, good job! that is a lot of stuff to do in 1 day. I consider it a productive day if I just put on matching socks. Second thing, in regards to item #27, if you could just get Steve to stop pooping in the backyard you could eliminate that unwholesome labor. Third thing, I especially enjoyed the part of your day where you sat culture, art and good taste down next to each other and slapped all three across the face, or as you put it "read two chapters of "McGillicutty and the Potato Pie Society". ( Sorry Penny, I know I am a book snob and Katie doesn't like it when I tease her about reading those books, but that line was too good to pass up)
Wow! That was productive. At first I thought it was Katie doing the listing; and I thought that is a lot of stuff, but her house is the size of my bathroom so it probably didn't take long. Then when I got to the part about the lawn I thought it was a joke that Bennett put up. Then when I got to the poop I thought it was you also referring to Dad pooping.
You should read the book, it really is great. And it's not McGillicutty it is Guernsey (as in cow). Through a series of letters the author tells you about what life was like during the German occupation of Guernsey Island. But it is done with lots of humor so that it isn't morose. I would be reading a book by the famous Bennett Johnson but he hasn't written it YET!
Holy cow! You did so much! Let's do an experiment: add a 4 month old to that list of stuff and try to get one of those things done. It will take you all day.
Holy crap, that is pretty amazing Mama! You are one productive woman. It takes all of my roommates to clean our tiny apt and it only stays clean for about 20 min. Right now there is a lot of dirt on the table from the fallen cactus that no one has cleaned up since Saturday. We have two full garbage bags in the kitchen because it's cold and no one wants to go two flights down and outside to take them out. I blame it on the city. It tuckers you out, so by the time you get home you do not want to do anything productive. We just watch YouTube videos all night. THis is the life.
You should make this list into a chiasmus
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