Starting Small

Every Saturday after the shop closes I'm going to work up a list for the coming week of small things that I've been meaning to do. If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, then my road must already have been paved over two or three times, at least! For example, I intended this week to finish washing the dishes in my sink, clean the dust off the panels on the doors on my house (that just really bugs me how dust sticks to my 100 year old doors - the finish on them must be somewhat tacky, ick!), spot clean the carpet at the store...I'm sure I could go on, but I won't, it just depresses me!

Here's my list for the coming week:

1. Spot clean the carpet at the shop. It really does need it, and I haven't done it in ages. How do gross dark spots appear like that when we ask people not to bring in food or drink? I wish I knew!

2. Seriously finish washing the dishes in my sink at home. Ok, ok, and the ones piled in the sink at the shop, too. You'd think I ate regular meals with all the silverware dirty...

3. Take my vitamins every single day. Not really something to DO, but something to REMEMBER. I owe it to myself to keep myself feeling good, so I have the energy to do all I need to do!

4. Start a system of organizing the reams of paperwork at the store. Right now, it's just tossed in boxes, which is why it takes me til October each year to actually do my taxes.

5. Send out at least 10 resumes. I've been slacking on this and I can't if I ever expect to pay off all I owe.

6. Get rid of the piles of untagged merchandise behind the counter at the shop.

7. Box up the piles of books at home. Keep some, maybe donate some back to the library bookshop if I don't think I'll want to read them again. I'm a big fan of passing on books to other readers so everyone can enjoy them, but I'll probably keep the Nora Roberts books because I never get tired of re-reading them!

OK, that's 7 items, or roughly one for each day. Good start, I think!