Isn’t it funny how a day that starts out with no firm plans fills up quickly?
That’s how yesterday went. The day seemed pretty empty in the morning, but boy was I busy after all! My to-do list was a single load of laundry and ironing, plus some little computer-based projects…nothing too overwhelming.
Instead, I worked on the computer in the morning and then went to start the last load of laundry. We bought Eric some new dress shirts, so I finally had enough light colored ironing clothes for a load. In getting the dirty shirts, I realized that I needed to wash a load of sheets, too, so now I had two loads of laundry to do. 
Then when I started opening up Eric’s new shirts, I realized that we’d gotten one in the wrong size. 
So I ran to the mall to exchange it. Thankfully, they had the exact shirt in the right size (it was on the clearance rack to begin with), and I stopped at the church to pick up Eric’s coffee mug that he’d left in the orchestra pit on Sunday. I’m such a good wife!
I got home and finished getting Eric’s shirts ready for wash. Those dress shirts come with a LOT of pins, paper and tags attached! 
Then I had lunch and worked on the laundry and ironing and cleaned up the kitchen. I wrote some in the afternoon, made dinner, cleaned up dinner and started the grading that I avoided for all of Spring Break, which I will have to finish today. I finished the day with phone calls from my mom and to Karen before finally heading to bed.
And that is what happens on days when I don’t have much on my to-do list!
Isn’t it amazing that a day of “not doing much” gets filled up with alot of STUFF. Sorry you procrastinated on the papers. Now you have to do them on your last day of freedom!! Oh well, this will be over soon!!
I have a very impressive collection of straight pins on the end of my ironing board, just from shirts. Men, bless their hearts, just have no idea….
I’m with Kimberly…..plan nothing.
Half the time, the men don’t even do the buying of the shirt – the women do!
Shan, try not planning at all. Then sit on the couch.
Maybe it’s because women buy so many more clothes than men, they complain if it takes too long to get to them! The men never know, because their wives go through and take out all the annoying stuff. They just think they buy a shirt, and it’s hanging in their closet for them when they need it!
And then, men have the nerve to complain about how complicated women’s clothing is…what’s up with that!?!
Men’s dress shirts amaze me. I go to the store and buy a fancy blouse. It is hanging on hanger with a tag attached, and maybe one of those anti-theft buzzers or ink packs. We buy a comparable shirt for my husband, and it is folded up around a cardboard form, lined with tissue paper, pinned in 46 different places, has that plastic doo-hickey to keep the neck stiff, and has tags attached in 4 different places. It is also in a plastic bag. Now explain to me the difference!