Every morning I wake up and ask MPS
‘what is the plan for today?’
I need a plan.
I crave some structure in my life.
With everything so very oooof and meh and OMG and WOW and oh no not now I am more overwhelmed than before.
And the lack of a plan is making it worse.
Roboboot and I hobble around in circles trying to make some sort of order in the world.
Just so I can breathe again.
And my mind is no fucking help. Coming up with NEW and AWESOME ideas for Moo’s party or deciding that today is the day that we should completely rearrange the house or start a marathon or something equally as stupid and unattainable while I am tightly bound in this boot.
As an aside: today I am going to strip furniture and paint it turquoise. I already have my painting clothes on. And done the cleaning prep. SOMEONE STOP ME OMG.
Then there is the feedburner issue and downloading a whole fucking guide and still I am confused, am I going to have to pay MORE MONEY for people to read this crap? Soon a psych is going to be cheaper.
When did blogging get to be a CHORE? Some explain this shit to the brain damaged crazy person pleeeeeeaaaase…
The 0 subscribers is making my ego heart sad.
So the plan.
Kelley you will, from this day forward or maybe starting Monday…
Eat. When you are overwhelmed you forget to eat and then you get dizzy. And then you eat shit. Which makes you feel like shit. So you eat crap. Which is shitty crap and the poo related metaphors continue. STOP IT.
Boundaries. Yes it is a really fucking AWESOME idea to cover the entire house in handmade paper/foam bricks to resemble the inside of Hogwarts, but it is just not going to happen. Let it go. You don’t have to decorate every single room for one party and HONESTLY no one will care or even notice if the beds don’t have bedding matching the party theme.
But I will…
Lists. Stop writing endless lists listing the lists you have already listed. One list for cleaning and one list for baking and one list for decorating and one list for miscellaneous and ONE list of lists of the lists…
Shit.
No party planning until the housework is done. Because mess is overwhelming. Duh.
Leave the house. (I have been really good with this one. I have yet to leave on my own but party planning requires purchases and since discovering that ebay is a motherfucking ripoff (shutup, I am from the country. I thought 37 bucks with shipping for this:
was a fucking bargain until I was informed they were on special at Cosco for 15. Fuck it) I have to venture out amongst the Great Unwashed to purchase shit. So far it has pretty much been the discount store and Bunnings.
I fucking love Bunnings.)
If the Achilles is screaming SIT THE FUCK DOWN! Cause if the fucker snaps MPS will be wiping your arse. True story.
Do one project at a time. Finish what you start and THEN move on to something else. Four hundred partly started projects cause mess and panic attacks.
Me time every day. Bitch your eyebrows are meeting at the middle and making their way down to your bikini line. Which also? WOAH. Make time for some motherfucking grooming already.
So there you have it.
A Plan.
Of sorts.
Now excuse me while I go and paint all of the furniture and clean the ceiling.
What? The Plan starts Monday… next.
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I that 0 before I read the post – OMG !
Wretched !
I think your plan is a good plan anyway.
I just cleaned the oven instead of rearranging or painting the furniture. I have no paint either.
I want those Jelly beans now , I had some yesterday the last of what the little cherubs left me. I picked out all the JB ones and left the pink/white ones.
At least you don’t need to be groomed to go to Bunnings.
One list to rule them all, and in the darkness, bind them!
::nerd reference::
Hey you, I lost all my Feedburner RSS subscribers but I was still able to export all the email subscribers even though there is a big fat 0 there for me too
Monday is the Emmys telecast. Plan should start on Tuesday.
Although it is a good plan.
Carol
I’m with Joanna on the lists…
That said, I’m all for scaling back what’s actually ON the lists to reasonable levels. Hang in there my friend.
xox
You should try losing your entire blog and readers to the great blog heaven in the sky. Still no idea what happened and wasn’t going to start again. But starting over has been kind of cathartic really. Got me back to the “grass roots” of why I started blogging.
Then there’s the “can’t get into my feedreader either so have lost all my blogs” and have no idea what you’re talking about re feedburner and maybe I’ll just stay ignorant by the sounds of all that.
As for the rest of your list – “YOU ARE CRAZY WOMAN AND NEED TO SLOW THE YOU KNOW WHAT DOWN BEFORE YOU KILL YOURSELF!!!!”
I like plans too. Plans are good.
I like lists too.
Lists send me to my organisational happy place though.
Lists are old lady crack.
Your plan is an awesome list!
I’m not really helping here, am I?
and this is why we are friends.
Can you imagine what we could get up to if we were neighbours?
OH THE LISTS WE COULD MAKE!
You need to delegate. Call in your minions and delegate.
But do the lady-grooming yourself.
Or ignore that bit of the plan altogether, I don’t think any of the party guests will notice.
Why turquoise? and can’t you paint the ceiling that colour too? Then you won’t have to wash it. (Of course the minions will be doing this, you will just be resting that achilles and supervising).
Other then the Achilles heel problem, and party planning, I think you just dumped the contents of my brain down! I had to go to the post office today, and the news agency. Both are at a major shopping centre. I walked out of there barely breathing. And that was WITH half a Valium on board before I left!! My anxiety hasn’t been this bad in a long time… The irony that this fact creates further panic is not lost on me. This afternoon I decided that unpacking two boxes was enough for right now, and have proceeded to start drinking pink bubbles on my new patio, while my man cooks a yummy dinner. The fucking lists can fucking wait!!!
Kelley
I so don’t get the feedburner thing. I subscribe via Google Reader (yours is most definitely in there!) so they just pop up when something new appears. I’m trying to put ads in my sidebars etc and can’t seem to friggin’ manage to do it, so it’s driving me insane. Faarck! (So, I understand this – how did this get so hard? – feeling. Plus I’m not very IT-savvy… so I’m screwed!)
I’m big on lists too. They help me feel in control. And yes… I have (on occasions – ahem!) made the same list several times for different reasons – prioritised it, weighted it etc. Just to feel even more in control. Sometimes I break my lists down into teensy tasks, just to get through them.
I reckon you’ll be fine. One room at a time and it’ll be done in no time. And I agree with the others, ‘me’ time is important. (And I’m sure MPS will love to help with the cleaning while you are grooming!)
Deb
x
Yes to lists.
Yes to plans.
Yes to a million half completed projects (okay, projects I have bought the required materials for and gone no further).
Yes to the eyebrows. Jesus Christ, the eyebrows.
I don’t care to mention my toenails…
The 0 is so depressing.
I need to have plans each day.
Sure sounds like an awesome plan! I hope it all works out for you!
Good luck with the plan.
If it helps Annie would totally notice your bedding matched the theme and she would tell every.single.person.ever. Then make me do something similar for her next party.