Done vs. to-do
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 11:38 pm✓ sleep in to catch up on sleep.
✓ have porridge with unsweetened cocoa powder and a bit of peanut butter for breakfast.
✓ inspect piles of assorted stuff that have grown on our floors during the past week and throw away half of it.
✓ vacuum everything.
✓ clean all floors.
✓ clean bathroom and dramatically recite "Crossing the Bar" while scrubbing shower.
✓ wipe down all surfaces with furniture polish.
✓ load and run dishwasher.
✓ reorganise kitchen closet.
✓ cut off cables and plugs from lamps to prepare them for being put up in hallway.
✓ nearly electrocute myself doing so because, contrary to what common sense would indicate, the lamps in the hallway are not connected to the fuse labelled "Hall", but to the "Kitchen" fuse.
✓ celebrate fact that growing up I was drilled to use a screwdriver test light before attempting anything on anything electrical.
✓ call my mother to inform her of my near-death experience as she is the one responsible for my test light training.
✓ mope to my mother about fuses, school, and students for an hour.
✓ defrost freezer and peel about 1kg of solid ice off the evaporator coils.
✓ do laundry, including curtains.
✓ play a merry game of sock memory to reunite long-lost sock brethren.
✓ buy black leather coat on eBay for under €6.
✓ buy soft shell coat that looks like a cross between a diving suit and a raincoat but which the reviewers said is very comfortable.
✓ attempt to draw something. Give up when it turns out it sucks.
✓ research short city sightseeing trips Crocky and I could take in the Easter holidays.
✓ research courses offered by the local university and debate feasibility of pulling off completing one while working a full-time job.
Actual to-do-list:
- correct my seventh year's exam.
- talk to the kind crazy cat neighbours.
- draft an exam paper for my other seventh years.
- prepare exercises for my eleventh years for Monday.
- finish minutes of Wednesday's workshop.