SISTER WISDOM

As part of my effort to choose Option B) IGNORE THE PAIN as my plan for life, I am making myself list out all those things I want to fix. These are the things I ignore in survival mode. They don’t cease to bother me, I just cease to entertain the idea of actually doing something about them. I think of them as insurmountable, things that must be endured because they cannot be changed. Talk about a pessimistic outlook. Time to get over that one.

And in the “Minor Annoyances” Category…

• No garbage can in the master bedroom.
• Stuff on top of my refrigerator.
• The nail that holds my broom keeps disappearing into the plaster.
• No broom on the back patio.
• Two (growing) piles of papers in the dining room.
• No good place upstairs to work on my laptop.
• A box of clothes to give away sitting in my bedroom. For a month.
• Wire hangers from Joe’s uniforms cluttering up the closet.
• Closet full of clothes that I don’t like/that don’t fit.
• Box full of books that need to go somewhere (like in a bookcase) sitting in the dining room.
• Nowhere sufficiently big enough for all the stuff that comes out of Joe’s pockets at the end of the day.
• Need some outdoor storage something for Mara’s bubbles and sidewalk chalk and balls.
• Toys! Everywhere! Do they procreate?

And in the “Bigger Projects” Category…

• Redo bathroom upstairs (paint walls and cabinets, do something with the floor, put up new shower curtain and rug, get shelves for over the toilet, rehang towel hooks, replace hardware and vent cover).
• Redo master bedroom (paint walls, hang new curtains, get new bedding and rugs, rearrange before April 6th so bassinet will fit).
• Finish up the kids’ room (clean out closet, get/hang something on the walls, make curtains and covers from that roll of material in the closet).
• Redo kitchen cabinets (paint, replace hardware).
• Set up work/play area for Mara upstairs (somewhere?) so I can get some work done in the morning.
• Landscape the front yard. (This should probably go in the “Things That I Cannot Do Myself” category…)
• Put some mulch/pebbles/something down in the back by the patio so we don’t get weed-infested there again.
• Clean up the patio.

And in the “Things That I Cannot Do Myself” Category…

• Put a sump pump in the basement.
• Buy and install a water softener so my glasses don’t look opaque!
• Um…new car? Mini van with two automatic side doors! YES. (Why not?)
• Finish the bathroom in the basement…
• Finish the laundry room, bedroom, storage room in the basement.
• Clean up the pile of lumber in the backyard.

I think I’d better stop now…