‘The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry’. Now I heard this quote probably 30 years ago from one of my friends and honestly I’ve never really thought about it again. Well, until tonight.
You probably know by now I’m always looking for things to make me better organized and plan each day better than the day before. So I came up with this brilliant idea. My idea is instead of having one list of To Do items for the day, that I would have the day broke out into categories. The reasoning is so you have a well rounded life. Well anyway that’s what the experts say that you should have. So tonight was the first night of me having this super well rounded life. Yea.. not so much. I guess I should first tell you that my list has these categories on it : HOME, COMPUTER, BILLS, FAMILY, PERSONAL, PHONE CALLS, COMMUNITY, and SUPPER. Your’e probably thinking to yourself by now – Wow, that’s a great idea! Right? Well in each category you only get to identify one thing to do. That way you can get everything on your list done and be this well rounded person. Let me just say that the kick off of this new way of doing things didn’t go so well. I was working on the Supper category and needed to wash some potatoes for the mash potatoes that we were having . When I looked down into the tote that is under the sink that holds not only the veggie scrubber, but also other kitchen cleaning things, it looked pretty grungy. So I thought that I would take all the stuff out of it, empty the dishwasher of the clean dishes and then do a quick wash of this tote. Makes sense right? Well, this tote must have had some dish soap on it that I didn’t see and this is where the trouble starts. After the dishwasher was running for awhile, I opened the dishwasher door. Bubbles started to pour out and onto the floor. What in the heck was that ? Then when I looked inside, it was solid bubbles. Now I knew how Lucille Ball felt because man oh man did I have a mess. I have no clue how many times that I had to start the dishwasher, stop it, and then try to spray down the bubbles to get it cleaned out. I’m still working on getting the bubbles out and it’s going on 11:30 tonight! I’m going to do it one more time and hopefully that will be the end of that. So that brings me to my list. Yea, with only about half of my categories checked off, I think that I’ll have to try to start over again tomorrow. The only difference is that doing dishes are NOT going to be on my list!
did daryl come through the door and say “Lucy! I’m home!”? hahahaha. too funny about the bubbles. i don’t have a dishwasher because i would probably do something to break the darn thing. i can’t even tell you how many garbage disposals i have killed! we don’t have one any more and i am really glad. never liked the darn things anyway. whole lot easier to put scraps in trash or in a bucket to throw behind the garage.