Stuff I Don’t Wanna Do
Apr 15th 2009
Karen RoseGoddess Grins & Karen Rose & On Writing!
For those of you not living in the US, today is TAX DAY.
Now, some of us here (and I am not included in this number), have already filed their taxes and gotten their refunds. I am not of this number because A) I never get a refund and B) I just don’t get it done super early. I’m an April 14 kind of girl, always filing one day early in the event of catastrophe. Filing taxes tops the list of “STUFF I DON’T WANNA DO.”
The list, abridged:
- File my taxes. ‘Nuff said.
- Clean out my closet. I have a walk-in closet in name only. I can’t walk into it because I’ve piled too much crap on the floor. I keep meaning to clean it out, because somewhere in the pile is my karate gi. My yellow belt is actually hanging nicely on a hanger as it is disrespectful for the belt to touch the floor. I am a slob, but a respectful one. (I did, however, clean off the dining room table so that we could have Easter dinner on it. Woot! Except some of the stuff ended up in the closet. Noooo!)
- Get on the treadmill. Duh.
- Have a colonoscopy. Double duh. I did have my annual exam and my mammogram, but just hearing the name of the other makes me shudder. Perhaps if they called it “The test that should not be named” it would be easier. Nah.
- Watch the last seasons of Stargate SG-1. ‘Cause it has no Jack O’Neill. I’ve had these DVD’s staring me in the face for a year now, a gift from DH, but I can’t bring myself to watch them without Jack. (Yes, I’d like a little cheese with my whine.)
- Throw ou
t a giftbox of Cadbury chocolates I bought in England last year. Okay, let me preface this by saying this box was one of the things I found while cleaning off my dining room table for Easter dinner. I socked it away in a “safe” place, meaning one my chocolate-inhaling minions (children) would not find. I know I should just throw it away, but it’s like a security blanket, having a little chocolate hidden away. You know, in case of fire, break glass. In case of stress, eat chocolate. It’s an assortment, so at least some of it will be dark chocolate, which has antioxidants, which are like … good for me, right? I am SO full of it, aren’t I? Okay, fine. It’s CADBURY. From ENGLAND. Which is WAY BETTER than Cadbury here. Besides, if I put it off long enough, it will go bad, in which case I will be able to throw it out without remorse. If I can remember the “safe” place in which I stashed it. Sigh.
What is on your list of STUFF YOU DON’T WANNA DO? And why? What lame-o excuses do you make to yourself? And if you already got your tax refund, I DON’T WANNA HEAR ABOUT IT 
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53 Responses to “Stuff I Don’t Wanna Do”
MizMacgyver on 15 Apr 2009 at 4:34 am #
I don’t wanna go to work cos some of the people there are scary.
I don’t wanna clean out my only closet either cos it is scary in there.
I don’t wanna clean my son’s room cos it is scary in there too.
As far as the chocolate, look in the closet, unless of course, it is scary in there.
Noelle (Chloe Harris) on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:21 am #
Karen,
I completely see your point about Jack O’Neill. I’m a huge fan of SG in all forms. But do try to give Cameron Mitchell a chance. Ben Browder is from my home town and writers did do a good job with the change. I think you’ll find the rest of the SG1 team felt the same as you do.
What I don’t want to do, that’s a lot.
-Get my tooth fixed that needs it. You can’t see it when I smile and it’s not hurting yet.
-Clean out the storage room and garage. There is just too much writing to do to bother with it.
-Send my baby off to college all on her own in August. I have no excuses here. I’m very proud of her but I still don’t want to see her go.
Lisa H on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:22 am #
Karen R – keep that chocolate! I know what it does for your characters’ libido!
Stuff I don’t wanna do:
1. Mop the floor – I hate all the prep, vacuum, move out the chairs, pick up all the shoes and cat food…I hate this job.
2. Clean out the Refridgerator – I spend 4 hours washing down shelves, washing dishes with science experiments growing in them and getting all the “hard stuff” off the condiment bottles and the next day, it’s a mess again.
3. Go to the dentist – I’d rather, A. give birth, B. deal with a screaming 2 year old, or C. Listen to a boring person recite the constitution. or C. All of the above to avoid the dentist.
4. Not a fan of “going out to play” with my toddler. I’ll play in the house with lincoln logs, legos, trucks, crafts, anything really, but I hate standing around at a park “watching” little kids play. I am not an outdoors kind of girl.
5. Fill out forms. I found the forms to get into college more difficult than actually going to school. I despise this!!!!
Karen Hawkins on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:27 am #
Oh Karen, I feel your pain!
1) That T word that is due April 15. I don’t like to even say it.
2) Clean my office. It needs it, but that’s too bad. I’m too busy working to clean it out, although if it was clean, maybe my work would get done in a more organized fashion — it’s a catch 22.
3) Organize my closet. Karen, I think we have the same one except there’s no yellow belt in mine (darn it!)
4) Talk to certain friends I’ve had since high school who’ve become a little negative over the years unless I’ve had at LEAST one glass of wine or a valium.
5) Visit the dentist.
6) Wash my dogs. They’re big and hairy and — oh, it’s a job. A REAL job. I do it anyway, but I don’t like it.
Now I feel like a whiner. :-/
Pesky on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:42 am #
*shuddah* *Pulling blinds down and covers over head* I don’t want to think about this.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:42 am #
LOL, girls!
Miz MacG – do you have to take a rake into your son’s room to clean it? If so, we can commiserate. As for going to work, my co-worker is me, and I’m kind of scary sometimes, (especially before coffee and/or TAB) so we can commiserate on that too!
Noelle – ditto on the dentist! I’m trying to find someone to knock me out. I never hated the dentist until my root canal without Novacaine. As for your college-bound daughter, been there, done that, sung those blues. I’m in the airport in Orlando as I type, ready to fly north to help her pack up her room (see fear of children’s rooms per Miz Mac G – yikes!)
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:46 am #
Lisa H – chuckling. And the book I’m writing is the story of a previously introduced very sexy hunk! Tease, tease. I’m thinking he will warrant LOTS of chocolate, LOL.
You know, cleaning, mopping, etc isn’t that hard. It’s all the straightening up you have to do first that’s the pain. I had a relative that just started turning her lights really low so you couldn’t see how dirty the floor was. As a youngster of 21, I said “How Rude!” Now, I’m likin’ it.
I hate forms too. I am the one the rebate people depend on to recoup their losses. I can count on one finger the number of rebate forms I’ve filled out and actually sent in…
I hope my husband doesn’t see what I just wrote. Ack.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:48 am #
KarenH – cleaning my office is up there, too, but I’ve whined about that in the past, so I picked a new room to complain about cleaning, LOL.
I also hate to wash my dog. He looks so miserable when he’s all wet.
Pesky – which part are you shuddering about? Taxes or closets?
Pesky on 15 Apr 2009 at 5:57 am #
Taxes, closets, spring cleaning, looking at New Year’s Resolutions again, dusting off the resume, culling through my books so they don’t take over the house, painting, clipping the cat’s nails….oi.
Becky on 15 Apr 2009 at 6:01 am #
1)I don’t wanna pack up my room to move back in with my parents. It’s entirely too much work when I’m already comfortable.
2)I don’t wanna move back in with my parents. I have no money thanks to tuition and NO DEBT, but it means I also get NO FREEDOM.
3)I don’t wanna take my car in cuz I hate the smell of those places and the magazines in the waiting room are practically shredded and hardly recent.
4)I don’t wanna spend the entire summer in the shadow of my mega-athlete amazingly talented and always positive sister. I love her to death, but the comparisons I can do without, thanks.
5)I don’t wanna go to school since I’m only going to write during class and I can do that much more comfortably from my desk in my room wearing sweats, drinking cocoa, and eating Easter candy.
Now that I have revealed my little 5 year old self, I’m going to take myself to time-out…where the Reese’s collection is….
Freedom Writer on 15 Apr 2009 at 6:01 am #
I don’t wanna do anything that involves a vacuum cleaner.
I don’t wanna do anything that involves a washer and dryer.
I don’t wanna do anything that involves a sink, a wash cloth and dirty dishes.
I don’t wanna do anything that involves a cat box.
Now for me taxes are not a problem. First of all I don’t earn enough to pay any taxes. Secondly, I have worked in the accounting field and have been a tax preparer in a former life so I am very “organized” and can whip out a tax return in no time.
Closet cleaning? That’s what closet doors are for.
Margaret on 15 Apr 2009 at 6:25 am #
Closet cleaning solution for the Karens. Call Claudia! You all could do one of those things like “Wife Swap”. Claudia could spend a week at each of your homes and clean out your closets. She won’t be sentimental about tossing stuff you haven’t worn/used since 10th grade. ITM, you all can loll around her immaculate home eating bon bons and watching Stargate with or without Jack. Does this sound like a plan? I just know Claudia won’t mind a bit.
I don’t wanna go to the dentist. Ever.
I don’t wanna pay bills. I need that money more than the gas/electric/mortgage company.
I don’t wanna wash my dog. That’s why God made dog groomers. Unless they are those scary prima donnas on that American Idol-style dog groomer show. What they do to those poor defenseless animals.
I don’t wanna do any of the stuff Free mentions. You rock, Free!
I don’t mind doing the T thing. My problem is a pesky K1 form that was emailed to me only yesterday. An annual event. Then, I hopped on-line to TurboTax, got ‘er done and e-filed in just a short lifetime.
Margaret on 15 Apr 2009 at 6:26 am #
KarenR, don’t throw out the Cadbury! Chocolate ages like fine wine. Right up to the time it’s so hard you can use it for ammunition.
Lisa Freeman on 15 Apr 2009 at 7:12 am #
Becky, you could almost write a novel from your life story!
I don’t want to clean the house, I hate unloading the dishwasher, I dread walking into the kids rooms after a sporting event (stinky)! The perfect day would be getting the kids off to school, turning on Food Network, curling up in my recliner and reading all day! Supper would magically appear and there would be no complaints about what they were served!
We’ll usually get our taxes prepared by the beginning of April and hold them until the last minute because we always owe too. This year we’re getting a refund so we wish we would have completed them earlier.
amy1242 on 15 Apr 2009 at 7:28 am #
Taxes give me the willies (and are waiting on the kitchen table for one more “look through” before being mailed out today) and so does cleaning the windows. I checked TGB when I got up this morning, then fed the kids and got them on the bus. Directly after, I CLEANED my front window (five bowed panes) and feel much better. Although, I only cleaned the inside. The outside is waiting for me to be on a ladder and screaming from the unexpected dropping spider (the neighbors love that).
Louisa Cornell on 15 Apr 2009 at 7:40 am #
I don’t want to go to work at Wal-Mart because there are some scary people there and the customers are worse!
I don’t want to do the dishes. I would use paper plates, etc because it is just me and my stupid self is environmentally conscious. I don’t want to be environmentally conscious, but I am.
I don’t want to finish my revisions on The Raven’s Heart, but I have to or my CP will come down from Oklahoma and kick my butt.
I don’t want to clean out the litter boxes TWICE a day, but if I don’t my picky cats will crap on the floor.
I don’t want to stare at all those books in my TRB pile and not read them because I haven’t finished my revisions and if I do my CP will know and then SEE ABOVE.
I don’t want to clean out my fridge or my bedroom closet because it just makes me tired to think about it!
I don’t want to work at Wal-Mart the rest of my life because if I do one day you WILL be seeing me on the six o’ clock news with somebody in a blue vest with a smiley on it saying “She was always so quiet. Sat around and read or wrote. I guess she just snapped.”
Bronte on 15 Apr 2009 at 7:45 am #
Like most I really don’t want to do my taxes, sort out my superannuation and I REALLY don’t want to go to the dentist. Similar to Karen I don’t want to watch most of season 8 and 9 of the x-files even though I adore the first seven seasons (no Mulder).
I REALLY don’t want my Aunt to stay with me for a week in May – certain family members are best from a distance of about 1000km. This includes creepy in laws (or outlaws as they may be better called).
Finally, I don’t want to go to work tomorrow:)
Claudia Dain on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:04 am #
I don’t think Zeus will let me list all of mine since he instituted that length restriction!
I don’t do the taxes, Big D does, so I never even pay attention to Tax Day. Aren’t I annoying? The only problem is, he can’t die. Ever. I don’t know the first thing about tax forms and really don’t want to learn. That would be Number One on Stuff I Don’t Wanna Do: learn how to read a tax form. I’m sensing there’s a ton of math involved.
Sabrina Jeffries on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:08 am #
1. Clean the office is probably at the top of all our lists. I actually took a little time off between books this time to do non-book-related stuff, but did I spend it cleaning my office? Nooooo. I did not. So now I still need to clean my office. Not to mention my house, oh, twin-beneath-the-skin KarenR. (Thanks for reminding me. Yeah, thanks.)
2. Answer the e-mail that piled up while I was away. Believe it or not, I hate answering e-mail. I know, I know, I’m a writer–I should like it. But I don’t. Yet I do it, because, well, you have to.
3. Decorate my house. We’ve been in this house for 5 years now, and I’ve yet to put paintings or anything else on the wall in our bedroom. You can tell I’m not a house freak like Claudia and Madeline.
4. Organize the attic. We just keep shoving things in there. It’s getting so we can’t walk into our walk-in attic.
Sigh. I’d rather do anything than take care of those four.
LoriHandeland on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:23 am #
Yes! Sabrina! A kindred soul. I took the paintings off the walls at my house probably 8 years ago to paint and didn’t put them back up. We’re now painting again and I may have to break down and haul them out of the boxes. I just don’t notice stuff like that. It’s sad.
Let’s see what DON’T I want to do–
1. Ride herd on my 17 year old for the next year until he goes to college. (you’re 17! Behave!)
2. Make phone calls. (It takes FOREVER to get anything settled with the phone company, the cable company, the department of revenue, etc. So I usually wait to make said phone calls way past the point that I should, which only makes them worse in the end.)
3. The office work for my husband’s business. (But since I’ve been doing “such a good job” for 20 years, I seem to be stuck.)
4. Clean (I’m really BAD at it.)
I could think of more, but those are my big Don’t Wannas.
Cail on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:29 am #
well, taxes are done. my parents do mine, and i did my DH’s with him (mostly to learn how to do mine, which are slightly more complicated, yay for online turbo tax!!)
i don’t want to do homework. at all. thats my big, thing i don’t want to do. everything else pales in comparison to my workload. at least this week i don’t have work on top of it.
Julia London on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:32 am #
Finish this proposal. They’re just too hard to do. But I do like money, and money comes with proposals, so somehow I will make myself do it. Somehow.
evlqn on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:33 am #
Karen R, we waited until yesterday to TurboTax e-file. This year we will get a refund and we can pay off the CC. Disneyland here we come!
Stuff I don’t wanna do is legion! Top of the list is sort through our files and get them back in order. We used to have the most orderly of files. But then we also used to have size 9 bodies too.
I don’t want to empty out our storage unit even though it will save us nearly $90 a month. Do you have any idea how much CRAP you can get into a 10×10 unit??
I don’t want to have one more person coming into measure our bathroom for tile, I would rather have some of the ones who have come through realize that I am not have this done for an HGTV episode and price accordingly. $23,000.00 for 103 square feet of tile?? That’s half what I still owe on my mortgage!
I don’t want to have to compile the paperwork for court with our boys parents, they lost them, they haven’t changed (not for the better at any rate) and they won’t get them back. In the meantime it hurts and scares the boys.
SheridanLA on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:35 am #
I am my magic accountant who waves his magic computer and out pop my tax forms. yay!!
I am in the process of doing things I don’t particularly want to do.. I am headed to the dentist tomorrow..
I am in the middle of a running program.. I keep hearing it gets better.. I am still waiting. I also just did a bunch of filing – more out of necessity since it had all overrun my “to be filed” box. hehe
I just did some cleaning in the main part of my apartment since I had a group of friends over for Easter.. now to tackle the bedroom and closets.. I am not a fan of housework.
after this mad flurry of activity is done, I am sure all or most of the preceding things will appear back on the list.. it is a vicious circle.
Freshechelle on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:46 am #
I don’t want to do all the work necessary to be better. It’s just too tempting to stay on the couch and watch TV or read Goddess-written and -recommended books.
So guess that’s good news for the 4 goddesses with April releases. Cha-ching ladies!
elsiehogarth on 15 Apr 2009 at 9:04 am #
My taxes are done but I had to pay this year.
I don’t like to do any dusting but I like to vaccuum.
I don’t like to do laundry but I love to iron plus I have all kinds of sprays: lavender, orange blossom, lemon/lime, roses etc.
I don’t like getting my teeth cleaned but I don’t mind going to the dentist. The dental hygenist is a killer.
I don’t like cleaning out my walk in closet but I love finding treasures in it and things that I haven’t seen in a while.
SheridanLA on 15 Apr 2009 at 9:24 am #
wait.. sprays for ironing????? Do tell!! I actually love to iron, but hardly wear anything iron-worthy anymore.. but oooohh.. scented ironing sprays???
Lorena on 15 Apr 2009 at 9:33 am #
Waving at KarenR from a few miles north of the airport. Okay, that’s where I was when you were at the airport, but now I’m at work (reading blogs counts as research, in case anyone asks). Hopefully you’re not still at the airport!
Things I don’t want to do:
1. Taxes. Sheesh. This year was the first year I had writing income and also the first year I decided to file my writing expenses. Worth it, but good grief that was painful. This year I will keep better records so I don’t have to dig for everything.
2. Yeah, that’s #2 — keeping files organized and/or going through them to clean them out. Housework, anyone? I have no excuses, btw.
3. Dentist, doctor, etc — my excuse is I’m trying faith healing and other alternative methods. ((Crosses fingers))
4. Exercise. I have NO excuse for this except that it takes away from writing time, which is actually a pretty good excuse.
5. Get rid of clothes I’ve “undergrown.” No good excuse aside from a nagging fear that I’ll gain back the weight I’ve lost. Plus it involves cleaning out the closet, and I’m not sure what’s living in there.
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JudyPatooty on 15 Apr 2009 at 9:54 am #
Oh, I agree with you on the colonoscopy, Karen! Having just turned 50, it’s on my doctor’s list of Tests With Which To Torture Judy.
#1 on my list of Stuff I Don’t Wanna Do is re-organize my second bedroom/home office/junk room. The stacks of papers that need to be sorted, tossed and/or filed are huge. The boxes of things I’ve brought home after cleaning out my late parents’ house are covering the daybed and part of the floor. It’s all just too much right now.
#2 would be go shopping for some new clothes. I know that’s #1 on many women’s lists of Stuff I WANT to Do. It’s never on that list for me. I hate shopping for clothes. But the weather is warm now and I need some new clothes for work and I’ve scoured all of my usual catalog sources and come up empty. So it’s shopping in a store time. Ick.
Oh, and no refund for me this year. I had to pay the IRS an additional $168. Harrrumph.
Kathleen on 15 Apr 2009 at 10:05 am #
My Don’t want to do #1- Clean out the closet and drawers in my bedroom. I need to sort out boxes I have not even unpacked since I moved into this appartment 6 yrs ago. If I have not unpacked them, then I don’t really need the stuff. Then I need to clean out the littel shelf under my mircrowave. I just keep stuffing things in there to get rid of it when guest comes.
#2 on my list is the fridge need to be cleaned out of all those half bottles and jars of stuff I liked but don’t eat anymore. I had that job.
Oh I don’t do my taxes, somebody does them for me, but it still does not mean I get a refund. Not this year and not last year either. I gotta get more deductions.
Kay on 15 Apr 2009 at 10:12 am #
My DH and I did the taxes last week. Chocolate and wine (and whine) accompanied the process. We owe some this year.
Laundry tops my list. Not washing it, but getting it put away! We’re having some construction at our house, so we are down one bathroom and three closets for about another month! Some things will have to stay in the laundry baskets until then –yea.
Mopping is next. I agree with LisaH–the prep is a huge pain, and my kids come home from school and the floor looks like it has never been mopped within minutes.
Cleaning off my desk is another. My piles have piles. It is more of an excavation process to find anything on my desk.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:06 am #
Mercy! Y’all have been busy while I circled Philly for AN HOUR. Okay, got that off my chest.
Aw, Becky, I just want to give you a hug. It must be horrible to have a perfect sister – to love her and hate the shadow at the same time. Good luck on moving back in with your folks.
Oh, and can I go to time out with you? I think someone needs to “examine” the Reese’s collection to make sure no insane zombie bunnies put razor blades or poison in your Easter candy. That one always worked with my kids at Halloween, minus the bunny part. Of course, the Reeses and Hershey bars would always be suspect and need a closer look. Oh, the sacrifices a mother must make for her young. Snicker. (I like those too.)
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:10 am #
Margaret – I’m with you on the dog groomers. I like to pick up my dog all nice and sweet smelling (until he’s been in the car for five seconds and he’s a drooling mess again).
As for having Claudia come to my house, COOL. But I think she’s so tiny she just might get lost amid the mess. Then we’d have to send out a search party and then we’d have more dogs that would need baths.
But, hey, I’m game.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:17 am #
Free, I’m with you on the cat box. That’s why I have a teenager. The cat box is her job. Then she earns computer time. “Not fair!” she cries, but that’s the raw deal in the real world. Gotta scoop the poo to earn the privileges.
As for closing my closet door, duh. I did that. That’s like tool number one in the hate-to-clean handbook. But whenever I want to get any clothes out of the closet I have to lean way in as there isn’t any place to stand.
Lisa F – substitute TNT for Food Network and I’m there! My perfect day is reading and watching Law and Order. All. Day. Long. Of course DH cooks the dinner so that part I always get
Amy – I love a clean window. I have a great view out my back window – lots of lush tropical plants – and I keep that window pretty clean. Makes me calm to sit there. So the windows are something I don’t wanna do that I do anyway.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:20 am #
Louisa, snicker. I’m picturing the scene on CNN with the blue vests with smiley faces. Of course we’ll say, “What? Quiet? No way, we had a betting pool as to when that dame would snap.”
Bronte – is there really such a word as superannuation? That gives me a headache just thinking about it. Good luck with the visiting aunt!
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:21 am #
Claudia, not to fear, taxes aren’t the bad thing. Like mopping, it’s the prep work that’s the PITA (pain in the .. you know). Of course if I kept my finances up to date in Quicken or something, it’s a push of a button. Kind of like not letting your house get cluttered.
Too. Much. Trouble. I’d rather whine about it with you all
Madeline Hunter on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:30 am #
Closet, ditto.
Teeth anything. I tend to make appointments in the winter, in the hopes that there will be bad weather that forces me (or at least excuses me) when I cancel.
DH deals with the taxes, and I only have to organize my receipts. This is not fun, mind you, but not as bad as what he goes through. I stay out of his way the first two weeks of April.
Madeline Hunter on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:32 am #
Oh, jeesh, of course, Karen H. Clean my office. I did not mention it because the topic implied that I would actually do these things that I hate to do, and cleaning my office was taken off the to do list long, long ago. When I go, they will have to bring in archaeologists so the good stuff doesn’t get swept away with the rest.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:36 am #
Sabrina – I also did non book stuff between the books, but did not clean my office.
This was my way of thinking and it would have worked, were it not for that pesky royalty check…
1) Get a mega royalty check (which is where all this starts to unravel)
2) Proceed with plan to convert college kid’s old room into new, svelte, modern office
3) DURING THE MOVE, deal with all the piles
3a) Critical component – hire Handmaiden Kim to come to my house and help me file (she thinks this will be fun. I think she’s a little bit touched. But still uber sweet)
4) Enjoy my new clean office until the piles begin again.
5) Go to 1 and repeat.
So, I thought, why clean my office if I have this fab plan to move? But college tuition trumps my new office and so I’ll have to deal with the office I’ve got for a bit longer…
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:38 am #
Madeline, hah!
I have strata in my office piles. Dinosaur is to Me as the mesozoic era is to “the period during which I wrote book _____” and you can fill in the blank. I can tell the ribbons of strata by what book I was writing at the time I threw it in the pile.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:42 am #
Lori, I dislike making phone calls too. I also find I dislike calling to cancel stuff I have ordered on a rolling basis. Not sure why. Oh, and mail order clothes that don’t fit? Return them? Ha! That’s a strata in my closet.
Cail, hugs on the homework!
Evqln – yes, I know EXACTLY how much can fit into a 10×10 storage unit. The contents of my garage so that I can park my new car inside. Several boxes that were in my office are now in the storage unit. Sigh…
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:45 am #
Julia, hugs to you on the proposal. I hate them, too. And my book rarely ends up like the proposal anyway…
Sheridan, good luck on the running! Of course if your To Be Filed box over runs, you put another box on top of it. Sweetie! I’ll teach you everything I know!
Elsie, you Like to Iron? Do people still do that? I live in FL and we’re coming into the muggy season. If I’m wrinkled, I just walk outside
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:47 am #
Lorena, okay, now you want me to feel sorry for you because you undergrew your clothes? I’m making a face here. Okay, now it’s a smiley face, but it took a minute. Good for you! Toss those old clothes!
Waving right back, but from much further away now…
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:52 am #
Judy P – I am totally with you on clothes shopping. I HATE this. Unless I have a personal shopper (ah, Claudia) to pick stuff out, I dread the shopping experience.
Plus, I got no room in the closet for anything new anyway, LOLOL.
Kathleen, oh yuck. My fridge. Recently I cleaned a shelf because somebody spilled honey on it and when I went to grab a carton of cottage cheese, it wouldn’t come off the shelf. I never spill honey. But I ended up cleaning it up because that’s even too gross for me.
Kay, hugs on the remodel. Laundry…. This is my philosophy:
1) Why make a bed if you’re going to sleep in it again that night? Unless company is coming, then close the bedroom door.
2) What difference does it make if you grab a folded shirt from a basket or a drawer. Either way, it looks the same. So why bother putting it away in the drawers?
The drawers are stuffed full of junk anyway. See? My logic astounds even me!
Becky on 15 Apr 2009 at 1:58 pm #
Karen Rose, please do join me in my time out. I’ll scoot over and check your snickers for you. I have kit kats, too….Anyone else want time out? Lisa, maybe I should write one about my life. Find me a sexy hero for it, will ya?
Pesky on 15 Apr 2009 at 3:28 pm #
Ok. I’m going to admit that writing down the things I didn’t want to do forced me out of my doldrums and into actually doing most of my list. (The cat’s claws I’m getting up the nerve to do, Spring Cleaning started but not finished.) Thanks!
Claudia Dain on 15 Apr 2009 at 3:30 pm #
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I would be delighted to come and organize your house for you. The only rule is that I get to throw out anything I deem garbage. I love to clean closets and refrigerators and pantries and offices!
Judy F on 15 Apr 2009 at 3:40 pm #
I am sure I have a long list of I don’t wanna’s
I don’t want to switch my wardrobe over from winter to summer. So far spring/summer has taken a hike so I can put that off.
I hate to take the garbage out. The dumpster gives me the willies.
I need to organize my books. I think they are taking over all the rooms here.
I don’t wanna work on the problem accounts on my desk at work. I have gotten caught up (don’t tell) and they are all I have left.
I hate to clean the litter box too. Sadly its only me and the cat won’t do it.
I need to make the old female appt, don’t wanna.
Karen Rose on 15 Apr 2009 at 6:26 pm #
JudyF – of COURSE the dumpster gives you the willies. That’s where all the bodies get dumped.
Claudia – why do you think I haven’t asked anyone to clean my office? I can’t bear to part with any of the trash!
Bronte on 15 Apr 2009 at 7:38 pm #
There is such a word as superannuation – at least in Australian English. Not sure what the equivalent is in the States. Here is a web definition:
A government regulated investment strategy designed to provide for Australians financially upon their retirement. These are usually in the form of superannuation funds which are built up by a combination of compulsory and voluntary contributions from employers and individuals over their working lives and are preserved (locked away) for a very long time before they can be accessed with the exception of special circumstances.
Michelle B on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:27 pm #
Like Claudia, my DH does the taxes around here for all of us. So I don’t worry about it. Karen, I like the Easter/Halloween candy inspection. My DH does it and calls it the “Candy Tax”, I kid you not. It’s been going on so long that I don’t think our kids ever even whimper over it. Just expected.
I don’t wanna clean the bathrooms cuz I get grumpy when I have to clean so much that I didn’t dirty. I guess I didn’t train them all right so I get what I deserve.
Closets aren’t bad, but I have a corner in the basement that is the catch all, supposed to be my crafting area and is more like a big closet that needs cleaning. I always feel like I don’t want to start it unless I can finish it, and of course there is never enough time for that.
I don’t wanna do the FAFSA forms, AGAIN, every year. I may not do the taxes, but the FAFSA belongs to me and it can be daunting. I hate it because you do this time consuming form and you know from the get go that you don’t qualify for anything, but the college requires it every year so DD#2 can get her scholarship.
TinaLouiseF on 16 Apr 2009 at 6:08 pm #
I procrastinated until April to get my W-2s to the accountant. My taxes were sent off yesterday.
I really need to re-arrange my storage shed, put the extension cord and christmas decorations away. Bring the tote in with the light weight shirts and fill it with winter sweaters.
I should also clean my apartment. There are two piles in the Kitchen, two huge piles in the living room and a huge pile in the bedroom. If I re-arrange the shed, about half the contents of my piles could go into the shed. I may be able to put 1/4 of the piles into the trash. The last 1/4 does not have a home.
Susan Thomas on 21 Apr 2009 at 8:59 pm #
Karen–KILL FOR ME was the first of your books I’ve read! I can’t wait to read it’s predessessors!
You are a great mystery writer! I so enjoyed the book!