Dudes. I am behind on everything. And by everything I mean but the kitchen sink:
- sleeping (*sigh*)
- reading
- housecleaning (story of my life)
- laundry (again with the life, story of)
- personal hygiene (I'm desperate for a haircut…I'm starting to look like a goddamn sasquatch)
- blog reading (sorry), commenting (sorry again)
- ironing (the fucking ironing, Christ, I HATE THE IRONING)
- watering the cat (I hear animals need water to survive…who knew?)
- writing
- household renovations – we’re no further along on our downstairs bathroom than we were two months ago; I still feel like I’m at an Esso whenever I’m in there
- organizing Julia's birthday party – it's next week and I have nothing ready
*sigh* Tell me I'm not the only one. Tell me you're behind on everything too, even if you're not.
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i think it would be a shorter list if i listed the things i wasn’t behind on. ummm…let’s see. actually, i can’t think of anything to even put on that list, apparently i am behind on everything!
May 30th, 2008
Other than sleeping and feeding the cat, none of that stuff HAS to be done right away. Try to cut yourself some slack. You’ll catch up soon enough.
Thanks again for your help.
May 30th, 2008
I’m so behind! *whimpering*
Did that help? :) Hmm – my first suggestion would be fuck the ironing. Life’s too short to iron except for special occasions.
May 30th, 2008
All I can say is WORD {flashes peace sign}
I hit the “mark as read” on my reader yesterday. I couldn’t take it. ;)
May 30th, 2008
-i’m wearing a kerchief on my head today because the grease in my hair makes my dark roots look that much more apparent
-both girls birthdays were in February, still no birthday party on the horizon
-don’t have animals for that very reason of watering/feeding them
-haven’t touched an iron in 3 years
-i limit myself to about 5 blogs (feel special?) i get stressed if i get involved in more people’s lives
-i’d rather comment than write my own post
we’re all on the same Ark!
May 30th, 2008
All of that and more. Well not ALL of that, as we don’t have a cat and I don’t iron. But yeah. Design work, writing, etc. instead.
Let’s go have a drink!
May 30th, 2008
I know this wasn’t your aim, in making this list, but WOW did you make me feel better. ‘Cause now I don’t feel alone in my behind-ness!
May 30th, 2008
I am so behind on everything, my best example is the laundry. I have about 20 loads of clean laundry in my room in the pack-and-play. We just dig through the pile to find our clothes. How klassy is that?
May 30th, 2008
I HAD gotten caught up on laundry, but then a day went by, and now it’ll take the whole weekend to get caught back up, and that’s if I do nothing else but laundry, and, well, HA. Like that’s gonna happen.
The house perpetually looks like it’s been ransacked and has a fine coating of crushed cereal bits on every single carpet.
At any given time, at least one shoe is missing. It simply varies on whose shoe it is.
If it wasn’t for drive thru and delivery service, we’d have nothing to eat but those cereal bits on the carpet.
And we’re supposed to be getting our house ready to sell so we can move? HA! Maybe after we move we can get it ready. Srsly.
And did you reference an Esso? Do they still have those in Canada (they’re all Exxon down here)? Awesome.
May 30th, 2008
my god yes.
our house is somewhere between “yuck” and “shithole”. and that’s just the beginning of the list..
May 30th, 2008
I’m so behind on the ironing that I’m going to pay someone to do it for me!!!
May 30th, 2008
well clearly you can forego ironing for reading and commenting….just sayin’ :p
May 30th, 2008
I’m so far behind that I haven’t even made a list of the things I’m behind on.
May 30th, 2008
i’ve been withholding my best material for when you get caught up, seriously, hurry, it’s hard to hold a kink in my funny hose.
goddamit i loved that last sentence
May 30th, 2008
I’m so behind on many things too!
May 30th, 2008
Your downstairs bathroom reminds me of my dining room. I started painting it at the beginning of April.
May 30th, 2008
My house is only clean right now because my in-laws are coming tonight and I’m at work all day, so it had to be done last night. Okay, it’s clean if you don’t look in the closets, under the beds, or behind large pieces of furniture (where we threw everything last night). I still have 38 loads of laundry to work around their visit this weekend, so’s we’re not all running around pantsless next week. I iron very little (just put it all in drawers and iron when you need it) and I’m in the market for a book to train my cat how to use the tap herself and also scoop out her own litter box. I’m also hoping she’ll read the book, because I don’t have time for that either.
May 30th, 2008
i’m so behind all i do is stare at my ass.
May 30th, 2008
me = so far behind. i’m trying so hard to catch up.
maybe you need to stop ironing. it did wonders for me. hahaha
May 30th, 2008
OMG ironing. Do not want. That is ripe for outsource right there.
May 30th, 2008
Ironing?
You iron? For real?
Girlfriend, ditch that. There ain’t nothin’ a quick spin in the hot dryer or a dry clean won’t take care of. Life is too short to be groomin’ clothes with a hot hunk o’ metal.
Kim (who chucked her iron six years ago)
May 30th, 2008
I’m behind on everything too. Except the ironing, but only because we don’t own an iron. So I’m behind on everything and wearing wrinkled clothes.
May 30th, 2008
I think maybe there might be an iron around here somewhere, but I have no idea where. My nanny bought it for me when I left home and it’s never been out of the box.
Let’s see… I’m still wearing last night’s PJs because I’m so behind on the laundry that I have no clean pants to change into… I noticed while walking the floor with the baby that it was uncomfortably scungy, so instead of sweeping I just put on shoes… the cable bill is overdue because I keep forgetting to pay it.
May 30th, 2008
I don’t iron, either. I stopped when the dog peed all over the ironing board cover a few years ago, and I’ve never looked back. Wrinkles are the new black.
Oh, and as for remodels? We decided to add on to our house starting last August, and we still don’t have trim on windows and doors and have weird drywall patch spots. I don’t think it will be done by this coming August. It’s the remodel that never ends.
May 30th, 2008
Water the cat!! LOL love it.
Girl, you are not alone!! soooo behind over here…
May 30th, 2008
Regarding the laundry: I went to my cousin’s wedding in new Orleans in March, and I have been behind on the laundry since then. I am not kidding when I say that no clothes have been folded or put away in the months since then. We live from washer to dryer to clothes basket and I see no end in sight. All true and I hope it makes you feel better. Just reading it makes me want to weep.
May 30th, 2008
You’re not the only one. I’ve just learned to make peace with it.
May 30th, 2008
Sweetie, I could give you a laundry list of all the things I’m behind on. But it would make my head hurt. And make me neurotic and I’d be up all night long trying to accomplish everything an get nothing done. I just push it out of my head. It will get done. Eventually. I mean, the cat does have to run out of hair to shed so I don’t have to vacuum the living room floor. And clothes really don’t need to get put away if I’m only going to wear them again. And moving papers off the dining room (and kitchen) tables before you eat is just a fun pre-dinner ritual. And by the way, to show you how often I iron, I had my iron in my room, buried under stuff. I got it out one day to see how rusty it was, to see if I needed a new one and Alison looked at it and asked what it was. My 6 YEAR OLD had never in her young life seen an iron before.
May 30th, 2008
I hate the ironing too. It bugs me that I stand there and make the clothes all neat and then my family goes and WEARS THE CLOTHES! So, as a gift of time to myself, I wash the clothes and take the ones that need ironing to the local dry cleaners and let them iron them. The load it takes off of me, is worth the money.
May 30th, 2008
Behind on the ironing??? Good Lord, I wish I could say that I was *behind* on the ironing. When we moved last winter and were sorting through stuff to give to goodwill, I pulled out the iron and with a perplexed look asked my husband, “Do you think this still works?” I didn’t even realize it was funny until he burst out laughing. A year-and-a-half later it still hasn’t been plugged in and I still don’t know if it works. Or where it is. Hmmm….Yes, to be behind on ironing…
May 31st, 2008
I am so behind. You should see my legs. So hairy!
May 31st, 2008
Ironing? I finally fit it into the budget to send it to the local cleaners. I justify it by saying that it is supporting local business. And the rugs? I paid Empire to put new carpet in my whole house and everytime I vaccum the rug runs like a bad pair of stockings, so I haven’t vacuumed in a while either. Yeah. Nice. Thanks for leveling the field…
May 31st, 2008
I have no expectations on ever being ahead of the game. I am taking two steps backwards constantly. Check my blog every now and then to make yourself feel better…or at least, to not feel alone on this matter…
June 1st, 2008
I am so far behind, some of the things on the list I gave up on…cleaning out the closets, unpacking all the boxes from my move of 7 months ago. I scored bit on the ironing though…my mom loves it, I hand it to her and she brings it back all nice and pressed. Even the boys t-shirts and jean shorts are ironed. I love you Mom, you rock!
June 1st, 2008
My son’s b-day party is in 13 days. I sent out about half the invitations and have done no planning at all. But there’s a lot of pressure on me because my daughter bugs me about his party every hour on the hour. I think I’ll just give her my credit card and let he plan the damn thing! She’d probably do a better job…
I live my whole life being behind so I’m feelin’ ya :)
June 1st, 2008
I’m so far behind, the March of Dimes people are gonna come after me to collect the donations in person pretty soon. And our water might get shut off because I just keep forgetting about the bill. Yippee!!! But my blog reading isn’t suffering… can’t forget the important stuff.
June 2nd, 2008
What is this “ironing” thing you speak of?? Never heard of it……………
June 2nd, 2008
Oh yes. And then some. I should be tackling the mountain of freelance work I have waiting for me.
And ironing? Puh-leaze, I don’t even pretend to iron anymore.
June 2nd, 2008
I’m having a birthday party Sunday.
Have yet to do. ANYTHING.
June 2nd, 2008
people actually iron?
June 2nd, 2008
Dude, you iron? I just throw things back in the dryer for a few minutes. :P
June 3rd, 2008
my roots are showing I never iron and I have barely read or commented anywhere and I have not been reading books either and and and and and.
xo
June 3rd, 2008
Dood. I’m so behind I can hardly stand it (I haven’t been here in weeks, just for a start) and I have a pretty high tolerance for behindedness. I don’t iron. Ever. But other than that? Yeah. Except add a dog to the cat for the watering business.
June 3rd, 2008
Ummm… occasionally I’m not so far behind that I actually stop to celebrate only having 5 things on my to-do list.
June 3rd, 2008
You IRON? Man, you’re way more together than I am. I’m lucky to have something that is actually clean. I’ve given up on sleep and am now running on fumes.
June 5th, 2008
Honey, it’s so bad I went and looked at another house tongiht, contemplating just MOVING instead of dealing with it all… and I don’t even iron.
Laundry I will have to run again tomorrow morning, as it has been sitting wet in the washer for two days now – yuk.
Dust bunnies are taking over my house.
Have not yet cleaned up the cat barf in the back hall – I never go there anyhow, so I keep forgetting.
Reno’s we started in December? Still haven’t hauled out the rubble to start the rebuilding part.
yeah, you’re not alone.
June 6th, 2008
Oh honey….
I.
am.
always.
ALWAYS.
behind.
BUT like one day out of a month when I spend it doing EVERYFUCKINGTHING.
*sigh*
June 6th, 2008
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