I haven't posted a two second task in a while. I have to post this one. OH my word, how irritated I get with myself for putting off such SIMPLE things. Simple things that make a huge difference. This dresser was mine as a child. When I was decorating my first child's nursery, my mother repainted it for me. In white. But the old … [Read more...]
Two Second Task – Moving Things We Don’t Use
In the summer of 2012, we got a new TV. When we got it, it didn't make any sense to hook up the VCR and DVD players that we never used, but that had been hooked up to our old TV. We didn't hook them up, but we also didn't move them. Right. They sat there. Shoved to the side of a TV that didn't have a flat top for stacking stuff on it. … [Read more...]
Two Second Task: Saving My Sanity
A while back, I wrote a review of the Click 'N Dig Key Finder System. I . . . love . . . my . . . key finders. But recently, one by one . . . they became possessed. Randomly beeping. Clicking. Never being quiet, even when hidden in a drawer or shoved under a pillow or banged impatiently against the table. This went on for … [Read more...]
Two Second Task – Shutting the Pantry Door
Oh my word. I'm so excited about this two-second task. Not that it only took two seconds. But really . . . I had been putting off this TOTALLY overwhelming, TOTALLY time-consuming, TOTALLY impossible task for, ummmm, years. Like, at least four. Right. That pantry door hadn't closed in at least four years. Not that I hadn't tried to … [Read more...]
Two Second Task – Fixing That Curtain
Another two-second task for you. That (stupid) curtain had been whompy-jawed for . . . ummm . . . a while. At least all summer. And I hadn't fixed it. Even when we had friends over for dinner. Even when it bugged me like crazy. I only fixed it when I knew someone was coming over who had likely seen it before. People who hadn't … [Read more...]
2 Second Task – De-Wonkifying Photos
Oh my word, I've been putting off this two-second task for . . . umm . . . a looooong time. Like a year? Maybe more than a year . . . Not that the fallen-down-pictures haven't been driving me crazy. I just didn't fix them. No excuses. I didn't even fix them when my middle child's photo fell completely out! I'm pretty sure that … [Read more...]
A Creature of (the Wrong) Habit
I thought of talking about how refilling the hand-soap dispenser is a two-second task. Not that it's actually done in two seconds. More like thirty. Which still isn't much. It definitely doesn't require blocking off three hours of my busy schedule like my brain tends to think it should. This perfectly-good, perfectly-refillable soap … [Read more...]
Monday – My Most Important Day of the Week
As I shared last week, my schedule has changed and I'm no longer home on Tuesday mornings. For all of my loosi-goosiness, I guess I'm also a schedule-lover because this change in routine makes me want to throw my hands up in the air and totally give up. But today, the second Monday of this new routine, I again cleaned the bathrooms in addition … [Read more...]
Waiting for Friday
As someone who rarely (OK, never) thinks to check pockets before doing laundry, I wash my fair share of Kleenex. Therefore, since my bed is the folding spot, I end up with quite a few of those white doo-lollies seen in the bottom right corner of the above picture. Now, for me . . . that picture could totally be an after picture. It's in … [Read more...]