It’s Monday. I have the whole week ahead of me and yet still I have that feeling of ‘Too much to do. Too little time!’ I feel like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland – late! and I’m barely out of bed.
I came to my studio early to consult my to-do list and came to the lamentable realisation I do not have one. No wonder I am moving panic stricken from room to room by candlelight, with the gnawing sensation I need to do something but not quite knowing what that is; the To-Do list is the backbone of my life - I simply cannot function without one. I picked up my pen to begin penning but was suddenly struck with a question: Do I write ‘Write To-Do list’ as task one of my list? I wasted 17 minutes pen-tificating on this before a decision was made.
Write To-Do List.Wash tea-towels, they’re stinky.
Buy vitamins (I look grey).
Return library books.
Read library books before returning.
Ask Ali the librarian for coffee on Thursday.
Exercise my body (it’s expanding in undesirable directions).
Call Auntie Shirley.
Draw signage for the pub over the road.
Get the car washed (it’s resembling a lump of mud on wheels).
Plan the wedding: see separate list.
Write a wedding plan: see above task.
Find some wood before we freeze!!!!!!
Put entire wardrobe on Vinted and starter over (should only take 30 mins, I’m told it’s a doddle).
Clean the house, it looks like Miss Haversham lived here.Make Stefan clean the house and scrap task 15.*
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