Completely Lacking….

Today I realized one of the traits that I pride myself on has not only been lacking lately but completely non existent, and I want it back. So, now I am trying to do just that without getting overwhelmed. See I used to be VERY organized and on top of everything in my life. Things were done quickly or on a to do list that was completed on time, the house was at least spot cleaned regularly and my life nice, neat and orderly. I used to be harassed by friends and family about how anal I was about this, even had a close friend tell all my college professors in one of my majors about how anal I was at the time. I have even been called that dreaded “p” word before – perfectionist. (I remember when I was editor of the Junior High newspaper in the 7th grade and we had someone who complied words for every letter of the alphabet and then put a name next to that word as someone who had that trait or the adjective or adverb described. My name was next to perfectionist and after I looked it up to see what it meant I was offended because I didn’t feel I was one. That was the first and not the last time the “p” word would be used to describe me.)

I have fallen terribly behind on projects lately and even completely forgotten about others, I have NO lists to follow and nothing to tell me what needs to be done though there is plenty to be done. I am starting to clean up the loose ends at work and have a MAJOR to do list that I want to get done NOW and not later (hence less blog posts and less time to complete projects at home). Now I need to get a list of what needs to be done at home made with some projected done dates, and make some of those projects part of my Manic Monday posts. I even have some half completed projects that need to be finished and checked up on.

While I think some of this giving up of things is healthy, I realized today that if I am this bad now and I don’t even have a child yet what happens when we bring baby home and we have a new ruler of the roost? It is looking like that will happen towards the end of this year or even early next year, should I ramp it back up again or just give in to the way things are now and try to come up with a new way to do things? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

So to add to the Manic Monday post – I want to compile a list of ongoing or need to be done projects for my personal life and then a completed date that is one project a week and that one project will be part of my Manic Monday posts.