Saturday.

The day routine goes out the window. This is the best and the worst thing about Saturday. It’s nice to relax, spend time together, get things done that just don’t fit into the schedule of the week.

However, I tend to neglect any mundane routine on the weekends. Things such as laundry, dishes, kitchen cleanup, etc just pile up for Monday. This is something that has to change with my new way of doing things.

The beauty of today is that there were barely any dishes to put into the dishwasher. There was just a little trash to throw away. There were just a few cups on the kitchen table. In the past, I would have enjoyed the fact that there were “just a few” by ignoring them. The reality is that it took me less than 5 minutes to make the kitchen look nice. Wow. 5 minutes.

Checklist:

Made bed.

cleaned up kitchen.

Swept kitchen.

Go me!

My kitchen isn’t small, but most of the time my workspace is. My decent-sized counter is usually completely cluttered at each end, leaving just a small amount of space between the stove and the sink. Somehow, in my mind this is justified. One side is for snacks, and the phone sits on the other side, […]

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I just looked at the time on this post. I’m learning that blogger puts the time on the post as the time you start writing it. Normally annoying, but this time I’m glad. I sat down to write my daily checklist, with the desire to be brutally honest about not having accomplished much today. Then […]

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