House todo

[kaberett]

TODO
deal with Biomull (see below - stage 1 completed)

TADA
requested new Freedom Pass! It only took THREE PHONECALLS.
showered
clothed
two meals!
sunshine
watch Korra 8 (treaaaaaaaat and honestly I deserve it straight off >>)
dealt with comments
respond to AntiWorm's facebook message
get caught up on comments/e-mail
acquired Mechs album
reply to e-mail from counsellor
tidy crap out of room
put away laundry
take meds
put away dry washing-up
do currently-required washing up
put wheelchair on to charge
Biomull stage 1
put recycling in recycling
sort out pasta shelf
floors (not kitchen)
e-mail DLA stuff to GP

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

todo/tada is the other thing you do that I think would be good for me... :)

[kaberett]

hah! I would be delighted if it proved helpful for you :-)

[cosmolinguist]

I've always been wary of to-do lists (I forget them or lose them or ignore them or get intimidated and despondent) so I like the idea of playing attention to what I have done as well as what I need to do.

But I'm torn at the moment between "you've got so much going on, don't make a project out of yourself and your life right now" and "this is a good time to try to sort out/improve your life because you've got so much going on right now." Unsure of how much tweaking to do, I've ended up letting my lack of energy make the decisions for me, but of course I'm unsatisfied with that too.

[kaberett]

mmm. For me, it is very much "list of small discrete immediate tasks", to help with the executive dysfunction that would otherwise get me stuck between things and not getting anything achieved, and also to help with shoddy short-term memory (thx citalopram). So!

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I'm usually the one providing the executive function in this household and I've noticed how badly that's flagging since I lost my job.

[kaberett]

yeeeeeeeeeeep externally-imposed structure is TOTALLY a thing. This is some of what I mean when I say my job makes me healthier, etc etc :-s

[jelazakazone]

To do lists tend to bog me down and make me feel awful. Ta da lists, on the other hand, can be incredibly helpful. Combination of two has worked for me at times as well.

I have to say that I started making ta da lists when I was pretty depressed and felt like I was doing NOTHING. Ta da lists were proof that I was accomplishing something.

I need to get back to my to do/ta da lists. I'm feeling incredibly unmoored at the moment. Summer with no external schedule is wreaking havoc on me.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I'm...if not depressed, something like it now, and pretty convinced I'm accomplishing nothing, which is another reason I thought this might be something good to try right now.

[jelazakazone]

Well, it's a worth a try, then, right?

[kaberett]

Not logged: conversation with mother, supportive conversation with friendperson, all the novels, watering the plants, various bits of digital tidying.