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Daily Checklist? Even When I’m Sick?

December 11, 2011 By Dana White | 5 Comments

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Daily Checklist_ Even When I'm Sick_ - A Slob Comes Clean

There’s the big question.

As someone who LOVES excuses, the I-don’t-feel-so-good one is tops on my list.

We’ve had a strange stomach virus move through the family this week.  It hasn’t involved any vomiting, but it’s hit each one of us, ending (hopefully) with me yesterday. It’s definitely something going around.  Something that makes normally energetic people feel like they just got run over by a truck, and makes them not want to eat.

Anything.

Which . . . believe me, is NOT normal around here.

I know that Flylady says you have to do your routines even when you’re sick, and I suppose she’s right.  I mean, she is Flylady.

But the real issue is not that you should do them, but what happens when you don’t.

Because I didn’t.

And I remember that sense of failure I felt in my Flylady days when I didn’t do them because I was sick.

Here’s the difference between doing things my way and following someone else’s way.  I accept that I didn’t do them, feel thankful that hubby cleaned the kitchen because he knows how important that is to me now, get up tomorrow (hopefully feeling better) . . . . and do my Daily Checklist.

This whole deslobification thing really isn’t about failing or succeeding, it’s about living.

And yes, I know she would tell me I’m not behind, but I would feel behind.

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  1. Kiri says

    December 11, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    Hope you don’t mind – but I mentioned you on my blog.

    http://happinessdiet.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-goal-to-work-on.html

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    • Nony says

      December 11, 2011 at 8:01 pm

      I love links! Thanks!

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  2. Helen Tisdale says

    December 11, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    Nony! You are such an inspiration to all of us who will not come out of the closet! By your honesty it helps us to face our fears, failures & shame of the condition of our homes! Be encouraged! You will feel better tomorrow in Jesus’ Name! One of your biggest fans!

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  3. Elisabeth says

    December 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    I respectfully disagree with Flylady. When I am ill, my only job is to care for myself. We give everybody else the day off when they are ill, and mamas deserve the same respect. Other people can do dishes and clean up after themselves. Anything else can wait until I’m healed.

    If I’m chronically ill, a new set of rules come into play. That’s when it’s vital to be a minimalist (which I’m not yet, but would like to be).

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  4. Roxanne Coffey says

    March 23, 2018 at 8:17 am

    Whew… getting over the flu here (tested positive and everything) — even my hair follicles hurt! And our dishwasher’s pump died… we have no routine for hand washing dishes — where the heck do I put them — and which side of the sink do I use to wash them in? Seriously?

    Anyway, I’d been doing dishes, wiping counters, cleaning bathroom (pickup), and was starting to get my floors swept every day and had a laundry day… then boom! sick, not moving, last load still in wash, no one else has a clue what to do and I’m feeling guilty because I didn’t do anything.

    I’m going to figure this dishes thing out and then I’m going to buy paper plates to use for the next couple days. Since no one else does them that seems the easiest thing for now.

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