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[edenfalling]

Done so far today:

1. Church (aka, 'advising' the high school youth group)
2. Breakfast
3. Nap
4. Laundry
5. Read two chapters of Life in a Medieval Village
6. Lunch
7. Figured out why a fic had stalled and made an outline from the fix onward
8. Put away half of laundry (washing/drying and folding/putting away are separate tasks, so there)

I still need to do my tax homework for tomorrow, and maybe write a note to Upstairs Neighbors E and T since I am pretty sure I will fink out of actually talking to them about the driveway rent. I think I will leave baking brownies for tomorrow.

Also I got my period and its accompanying cramps this afternoon. Blargh, bodies.

(The youth group, by the way, is great fun. I think every single one of the kids is a geek of some sort, and many of them also seem to be actively in fandom to some degree. I am not entirely sure what to do with this fact except squee along with them over various stuff -- it would be weird to be all, "Why yes, I am also in fandom; this is my internet name; please read my fic!" -- but I am very happy that they have a safe space within the RE program where they can be as ridiculous and open as they want. *grin*)

Comments

[transposable_element]

Sounds like you had a productive day! I've been wondering whether posting little to-do lists here, as I've seen you and a couple of other people do, would help me. Pondering.

[edenfalling]

I tend to be kind of down on myself for 'not doing anything,' so in that sense to-do lists are a useful tool even if I don't get through every item. The ones I DID get through are tangible written proof of stuff I actually did. It may not always be a LOT of stuff, but still. Stuff! :D

That's why I put meals on my lists, because those are necessities of life and managing to feed oneself at appropriate times is a significant accomplishment on bad days. I also tend to put on 'take a walk' and 'go to bed by X time,' since those are likewise basic life care tasks. In this case 'take a walk' was covered by going to church, which is why it's not listed as a separate item.

I also like to leave space at the bottom to add any unplanned tasks I do during the day -- in this case, remove a box from one of my closets, sort its contents, decide to get rid of 2/3 of said contents, put the kept items in more logical places, and use the now-empty box to hold all the hangers I cleared out of the closet a month ago and which had been lying in a messy pile on my floor. \o/

I use to-do lists more during depressive episodes, because I need externalized structure more at those times. Right now I'm just trying to make the most of a three-day weekend, which is easier if I write down the things I want to finish. Otherwise I rely on memory and my wall calendar, where I note a few specific kinds of obligation in color-coded markers: black for work; green for education; purple for church; and blue for trips, birthdays, elections, appointments, blood drives, etc. (Red is for tracking a completely different type of data.)

[transposable_element]

That all makes sense. It's true that writing things down helps me realize that I actually do more than I realize. I need to make some lists, though, because there are a number of Big Things that I'm putting off by spending my time on little things. Maybe if I can schedule a mixture of Big and little things to do it will help. (Yuletig tag set opened today, which doesn't help AT ALL....)

We had an offset version of the three-day weekend. All the schools in our district were closed Friday for "staff development" and are open today. The city libraries are closed today, though, so I suppose it was just the school district that decided not to have any truck with Columbus Day. Luckily the city library in the next town over is open today, so I will have a place to go if I feel like getting out of the house for a while without having to rent a table in a cafe. :-)