Today is one of my favourite days in the FlyLady routines. It's Anti-Procrastination Day. I am a master at procrastinating. Heck, I even procrastinated writing this post! I should have done it last night, but here I am frantically typing this afternoon!
I will do anything but the one thing I really need to do. In the past, this has meant I cleaned my house, reorganized my closets, baked cookies and cakes, or just plain ignored the task and played on facebook or watched TV. As a teacher, I was always extra bad around report card time. All of a sudden we would be joking in the staffroom that we had so much baking being brought in by the teachers. Seems like I was not alone in my procrastinating ways.
I love to write to-do lists and nothing gives me more pleasure than crossing off items on my lists....but for some reason there are always a couple things that get shifted to new list after new list. For me, it is often making phone calls to companies (the phone company, the insurance company etc) because I hate waiting on hold! I also tend to procrastinate sending mail, like my medical receipts and thank you cards. Today is the day to pick one or two of those tasks and get it done!
As a new mommy I knew I would be writing lots and lots of thank you cards when my baby arrived so I bought a bunch of cards, gathered up all the addresses in one place and made a little Thank You Card Station at home. I have a list in there of all the people that are awaiting a thank you card and I cross them off as I go. Last week, on Anti-Procrastination Day I wrote 20 cards. Ummm.....procrastinate much? These were mostly from Christmas gifts and gifts we got when he was born in December. L'oops. I write them from Hunter's perspective with lots of jokes about how he keeps me so busy and he is sorry the card is so late. Hopefully that buys back our favour with the older relatives that expect thank-you's a little more promptly.
The funny thing is, I love to send and recieve personal mail. I have more stationary than I care to admit and I love using my personalized return address stickers and buying pretty stamps at the post office. I currently have my eye on two self-inking return address stamps on Etsy (pictured above). Aren't they cuuuuute? If only I could decide which one I want....I'll just put it off till next Anti-Procrastination Day. Ha!
This week I only have 5 more thank you cards to go, a couple calls to compare insurance policies and banana bread to make with the oodles of frozen black bananas that fall out of our freezer door all too often, prompting my husband to declare he is throwing them out. He'll regret that statement when he gets a piece of fresh banana bread in his lunch tomorrow.
Happy Anti-Procrastination Day! Don't forget to keep going with your morning and evening routines, and 15 minutes of decluttering each day. See you tomorrow for Errand Day.
p.s While I was cleaning on Monday, I got to thinking about some of the harsher cleansers I use in my house. I want to get rid of the really smelly ones because they give me a headache and I am sure they are not good for the baby! I use Method cleansers mostly, but I do still have some stronger stuff for toilets and showers. I remembered a website I found ages ago about 1001 uses for vinegar and I am looking forward to concocting some cleaners that are easier on us (and the environment!). Anyone out there make their own cleaners? Any tips?
p.p.s - Any hints on cleaning the oven? I set ours on self-clean on Monday and it smells so bad - like chemicals! I googled it and it seems to be still burning off the factory finish? It is a new-ish (2 years) oven and I shamefully have only done the self-clean twice, but turned it off after an hour because the smell was unbearable. What to do?
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