Friday, October 8, 2010

Never volunteer to do something yourself, when you can get someone else to do it for you

Call it karma, the one time I decide to be responsible for myself and take my car in to get serviced, turns out to be one of those "big services." Here I am, two hours have passed and one more to go. I usually manipulate my dad or brother into taking my car in for me, but today, I thought I'd feel like an independent woman by taking care of my own business. Well, it turns out independence has a price.

I have a checklist of things to do and when I think about it, I am overwhelmed, especially when I think about all the stuff I have to do for school.  Three semesters of putting things off is all catching up with me this semester. For a majority of my time in graduate school I have made it so I don't have to sacrifice any of my fun time, and now I think I may have to compromise, however the great about me is that I am stubborn and determined to keep things the way they are.



Anyway, some of the important things on my list (besides homework) are, catching up on dexter, sending out invitations for my sis-in-law's baby shower (lesson here is never volunteer even if you think it is an easy task. it never is that simple), clean bathrooms and work on my bike, and... probably catch up more on movies and shows.

The most likely outcome for this weekend will be that I end up watching a marathon of ridiculously awesome movies on SyFy as I attempt to clean unsuccessfully.

4 comments:

  1. I love that you put check boxes on your to-do list. It feels so satisfying to check things off. And I'm impressed you have dex on there, as you should. :)

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  2. Looks to me like the problem here may be ambition. There are a lot of boxes on that list.

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  3. yeah, ambition can only mean inconvenience and trouble. i'm working at giving it up.

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  4. I like how you talk about all of the things you have to do for school, and in the next paragraph you list the 'important' things. Smart girl.

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