Current Mood : Hopeful
Current Image Notes : Don't own this, but I would have to be hypnotized to enjoy housework, that's fer sure !
Since the ‘do three things' housework plan worked so well last week, I'm gonna keep it going this week ! It'll be a bit of a challenge because I'm doing test proctoring for third grade at Dearest Son's school on Tues. and Friday morning. Just for a couple hours. I'm also gonna try to volunteer two or so hours a week.
Today's tasks were the weekend's dishes, some laundry, and cleaning the kitchen counters and stove top. While the last job doesn't sound like much, it was the most labor-intensive, and took nearly an hour. But the whole kitchen looks much better. Even got the dishes put away while I made dinner.
I actually felt compelled to get it all done ! So maybe this new habit will take root. At least on weekdays. Had no problem sittin' on my round rump Saturday and Sunday !
If there's one thing I've learned - the fastest way to a depression is to stay sitting around. Fastest way out of one is to get up and move around ! Even if it's just Mp3 music or finally getting to the crusty dishes, inactivity is the killer. More you move, the less can settle on ya, and weigh you down !
I stupidly stayed up late, but I finished reading the manga series I began this weekend, Boys over Flowers ( Hana Yori Dango). I feel really stupid for buying even used manga, when most popular series are available as ‘scanlation' (page scans with translation filled in with graphics editing software) online for free. Of course, you can't read scanlations in bed, but it sure saves some cash. F'r instance, Boys runs 37 volumes. Even buying used when you can find ‘em, and using our comic shop's ‘buy four, get one free' promo, it'd cost $140. to snag ‘em all.
I also call it stupid of me, because towards the end, it was really getting bad. Stabbings, amnesia, kidnappings, deserted tropical islands... all in the last two or three volumes ! I'm glad I got to read the whole thing, but I'm not that much into soap-opera style plotlines.
