100 Things I Must-Should-Ought-Want to Do (1-10 July 2014)

(symptom: checking and re-checking several to hundreds of times a day, such as self-evaluation)

1. Dishes [x12]
2. Laundry [x7]
3. Wipe down the kitchen counters [x9]
4. Clean the sinks [x9]
5. Sweep the kitchen floor [x7]
6. Clean the toilet [x6]
7. Plan and prepare dinner [x3, DH x3, takeaway x1, scrounge x3]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [x8, DH x2]
9. Birthday shopping for #4 (1st)
10. Wrap presents (2nd)
11. #4's birthday (3rd)
12. Nana time  (4th, 5th, 6th)
13. Pick up #3 in Kerikeri (7th)
14. My birthday (8th)
15. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center (1st)
16. Drop off donations
17. Library (1st)
18. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (1st)
19. Source and order hay
20. Get Animal Health Board herd number
21. Pick up vacuum cleaner
22. Buy more retaining wall blocks, potting mix, gravel, mulch, paving stone, brackets and PVC poles
23. 15 minutes of filing (1st)
24. Dust the office (1st)
25. 27-pick-up in the bedroom (2nd)
26. Change sheets (3rd)
27. Clean the tub (3rd)
28. Mop bathroom and toilet room (1st)
29. Dust bedroom (3rd)
30. Dust dining room and lounge (1st)
31. Vacuum office (1st)
32. Vacuum dining room and lounge (1st)
33. Vacuum entry
34. Vacuum hallway
35. Vacuum bedroom
36. Clean windows and window sills in the addition (45 mins)
37. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen 
38. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch (3rd)
39. Clean back porch furniture (3rd)
40. Clean windows, window sills, and doors in the freezer room (2nd)
41. Clean switch plates and walls in the freezer room (2nd)
42. Weed established beds in the back porch garden (20 mins, 3rd)
43. Clean light fixture in the freezer room (2nd)
44. Dust curtains in the office (2nd)
45. Straighten and dust office bookcases (3rd)
46. Buy seeds and seedlings for the back porch garden (3rd)
47. Clean switch plates, door frames and walls in the office (3rd)
48. Clean windows, window sills, and French doors in the office (3rd)
49. Clean monitor in the office (3rd)
50. Plant seeds and seedlings in the back porch garden (3rd)
51. Clean baseboards in the office (3rd)
52. Clean light fixtures in the office (3rd)
53. Remove grass from kill zones in the back porch garden (50 mins)
54. Weed established beds in the front porch garden (30 mins, 4th)
55. Sweep and tidy the back porch (3rd)
56. 27-pick-up in the office (3rd)
57. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden (10)
58. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge (3rd)
59. 27-pick-up in the dining room (7th)
60. Dust curtains in the dining room (3rd)
61. Clean light fixture in the dining room (3rd)
62. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the dining room (3rd)
63. Clean windows and window sill in the dining room (3rd)
64. Spray weed killer in the back porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
65. Polish dining room table (3rd)
66. Straighten and dust dining room bookcases (3rd)
67. Clean baseboards in the dining room (3rd)
68. 27-pick-up in the lounge (7th)
69. Clean ceiling fan blades in the lounge (3rd)
70. Dust curtains in the lounge (3rd)
71. Clean light fixtures and lamps in the lounge (3rd)
72. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch (3rd)
73. Sweep the front porch (3rd)
74. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden (10)
75. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (2)
76. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances (3rd)
77. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts (3rd)
78. Mop the kitchen floor
79. Make a grocery list
80. Grocery shopping
81. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom (3rd)
82. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage (4th)
83. Wipe down top of washer/dryer (4th)
84. Wipe down laundry counter (4th)
85. Clean inner washer lid (4th)
86. Clean washer lint filter 
87. 27-pick-up in the laundry room
88. Sweep and mop laundry room floor
89. 27-pick-up in the storage room
90. 27-pick-up in the addition
91. Install edging and dog wire along front porch garden
92. Build blueberry bed (20 mins)
93. Buy soil and amendments for blueberry bed
94. Touch up office wall paint
95. Finish painting trim in office
96. Paint trim in toilet
97. Buy seeds and seedlings for the front porch garden
98. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the lounge
99. Code business bank accounts
100. Update calendars and to-do list (10th)

And also, I must watch film with DH.  Here's what we watched together:

• 24 
• Primary Colors
• Transcendence (we both went to sleep)
• Tyrant
• West Wing 2.22 "Two Cathedrals"
• More West Wing

Here's what I'm reading:

• "Annabelle Lee" (1849), by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Artist of the Beautiful" (1846), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Bells" (1848), by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Birthmark" (1843), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Black Cat" (1843), by Edgar Allan Poe
• Dark Eden (2012), by Chris Beckett
• "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845), by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), by H. G. Wells
• "The Oval Portrait" (1842), by Edgar Allan Poe
• "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Raven" (1845), by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Reapers Are the Angels (2010), by Alden Bell
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), by Edgar Allan Poe

100 Things I Must-Should-Ought-Want to Do (21-30 June 2014)

(symptom: checking and re-checking several to hundreds of times a day, such as self-evaluation)

1. Dishes [x17, #4 x2]
2. Laundry [x6]
3. Wipe down the kitchen counters [x4]
4. Clean the sinks [x3]
5. Sweep the kitchen floor [x4]
6. Clean the toilet [x2]
7. Plan and prepare dinner [x5, DH x2, takeaway x2, scrounge x1]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [x9, DHx1]
9. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (21st)
10. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center 
11. Bank (24th)
12. Birthday shopping for #4
13. Make Auckland appointments, travel arrangements (21st)
14. Pick up vacuum cleaner
15. Email Mom (23rd) 
16. Source and order firewood (23rd)
17. Firewood delivery (26th)
18. Dinner at #2's (26th)
19. Source and order hay
20. Get Animal Health Board herd number
21. Meeting with accountant (27th)
22. Book driving test for #3 (30th)
23. Buy more retaining wall blocks, potting mix, gravel, stakes, mulch, edging, paving stones
24. Drop off donations (27th)
25. 15 minutes of filing
26. Vacuum entry
27. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage (21st)
28. Wipe down top of washer/dryer (21st)
29. Wipe down laundry counter (21st)
30. Clean inner washer lid (21st)
31. Clean washer lint filter (21st)
32. 27-pick-up in the laundry room (22nd)
33. 27-pick-up in the storage room (22nd)
34. 27-pick-up in the addition (22nd)
35. Clean downstairs shower in addition (22nd)
36. Clean downstairs toilet in addition (22nd)
37. Dust upstairs shelves in addition (26th)
38. Dust downstairs shelves in addition (26th)
39. Clean windows and window sills in addition
40. Code business bank accounts (23rd)
41. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch (27th)
42. Sweep and tidy the back porch (28th)
43. Dust the office 
44. Vacuum office
45. 27-pick-up in the office (12)
46. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden (26th)
47. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge (26th)
48. Dust dining room and lounge
49. Vacuum dining room and lounge
50. 27-pick-up in the dining room (10)
51. 27-pick-up in the lounge (16)
52. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch (27th)
53. Sweep the front porch (28th)
54. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden (26th)
55. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (26th)
56. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances (30th)
57. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts (30th)
58. Mop the kitchen floor (30th)
59. Make a grocery list (24th)
60. Grocery shopping (24th)
61. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom (28th)
62. 27-pick-up in the bedroom
63. Change sheets
64. Clean the tub
65. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the toilet (26th)
66. Remove grass from kill zones in the water tank garden 
67. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the bathroom (26th)
68. Clean baseboards in the toilet and bathroom 
69. Straighten bathroom shelves and drawers (26th)
70. Spray weed killer in the water tank garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock (28th)
71. Clean siding in shower and around tub
72. Clean light fixtures in the toilet and bathroom
73. Clean windows and window sills in bathroom and toilet
74. Mop bathroom and toilet room
75. Dust bedroom
76. Weed established beds in the shed garden (60 mins)
77. Clean light fixtures in the hallway
78. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the hallway
79. Clean baseboards in the hallway
80. Vacuum hallway
81. Buy seeds and seedlings for the shed garden
82. Clean ceiling fan blades in the bedroom
83. Clean windows and window sill in bedroom
84. Straighten and dust bookcase in bedroom
85. Plant seeds and seedlings in the shed garden 
86. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the bedroom
87. Tidy one section of bedroom closet
88. Clean baseboards in the bedroom
89. Vacuum bedroom
90. Remove grass from kill zones in the shed garden 
91. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the laundry room
92. Clean light fixture in the laundry room
93. Change rubbish bin bag in the laundry room
94. Spray weed killer in the shed garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
95. Sweep and mop laundry room floor (30th)
96. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen
97. Install edging and dog wire along front porch garden
98. Build blueberry bed
99. Submit mooc writing assignments (24th)
100. Update calendars and to-do list (30th)

And also, I must watch TV with DH.  Here's what we watched together:

• 24 
• American Horror Story: Asylum 
• American Horror Story: Coven (x13)
• The Colbert Report (x5)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (x5)
• Groundhog Day
• Halt and Catch Fire (x2)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (x2)
• The Last Ship (x2)
• The Leftovers
• Orphan Black
• Real Time with Bill Maher (x2)
• Tyrant
• Years of Living Dangerously (x2)

Here's what I'm reading:

• Dark Eden (2012), by Chris Beckett
• The Dark Is Rising (1973), by Susan Cooper
• Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker
• Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley

100 Things I Must-Should-Ought-Want to Do (11-20 June 2014)

(symptom: checking and re-checking several to hundreds of times a day, such as self-evaluation)

1. Dishes [x19, #4x1]
2. Laundry [x13]
3. Wipe down the kitchen counters [x9]
4. Clean the sinks [x9]
5. Sweep the kitchen floor [x9]
6. Clean the toilet [x8]
7. Plan and prepare dinner [x3, DHx6, scrounge x1]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [x12, DHx5]
9. Bank [x1]
10. Post office (12th)
11. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center (15th)
12. Order gas canister refill (11th)
13. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (12th)
14. Source and order firewood 
15. Source and order hay
16. Get Animal Health Board herd number
17. Change sheets (12th)
18. Sweep the front porch (12th)
19. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen [x2]
20. Buy more retaining wall blocks, potting mix, gravel, stakes, mulch, edging, paving stones (12th)
21. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch (12th)
22. Sweep and tidy the back porch (12th)
23. Dust the office (12th)
24. Vacuum office (15th)
25. 27-pick-up in the office (12th)
26. 15 minutes of filing 
27. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden (20)
28. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge (13th)
29. Dust dining room and lounge (13th)
30. Buy seeds and seedlings for the front porch garden (12th)
31. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the lounge (13th)
32. Clean windows and window sill in the lounge (13th)
33. Straighten and dust lounge bookcases (13th)
34. Plant seeds and seedlings in the front porch garden (15th)
35. Clean under couch cushions in the lounge (13th)
36. Clean baseboards in the lounge (13th)
37. Polish furniture in the lounge (13th)
38. Vacuum dining room and lounge (13th)
39. 27-pick-up in the dining room (12th)
40. 27-pick-up in the lounge (24)
41. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch (13th)
42. Remove grass from kill zones in the front porch garden (60 mins)
43. Sweep off front porch furniture (15th)
44. Wipe down tables, banisters, and light fixtures on the front porch (15th)
45. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden (13)
46. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (2)
47. Clean light fixture in entry (16th)
48. Spray weed killer in the front porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock (15th)
49. Clean windows, window sill, and door in entry (16th)
50. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the entry (16th)
51. Vacuum entry 
52. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances (16th)
53. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts (16th)
54. Empty fridge and thoroughly clean in the inside (16th)
55. Weed established beds in the water tank garden (20 mins)
56. Detailed clean stove and oven (16th)
57. Wash canisters and knick-knacks in the kitchen (20th)
58. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the kitchen (20th)
59. Buy seeds and seedlings for the water tank garden
60. Clean windows and window sill in the kitchen (16th)
61. Clean light fixtures in the kitchen (16th)
62. Mop the kitchen floor 
63. Make a grocery list (17th)
64. Grocery shopping (DH, 19th)
65. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom (17th)
66. 27-pick-up in the bedroom (17th)
67. Clean the tub (20th)
68. Empty rubbish bags in toilet and bathroom (17th)
69. Plant seeds and seedlings in the water tank garden (20th)
70. Clean outside and behind the toilet
71. Scrub fixtures in bathtub, bathroom sink, and shower
72. Mop bathroom and toilet room
73. Dust bedroom
74. Vacuum hallway
75. Vacuum bedroom
76. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage
77. Wipe down top of washer/dryer
78. Wipe down laundry counter
79. Clean inner washer lid
80. Clean washer lint filter
81. 27-pick-up in the laundry room (4)
82. Sweep and mop laundry room floor
83. 27-pick-up in the storage room
84. 27-pick-up in the addition
85. Clean downstairs shower in addition
86. Clean downstairs toilet in addition
87. Dust upstairs shelves in addition
88. Install edging and dog wire along front porch garden
89. Install landscaping rocks in water tank garden
90. Finish painting feature wall in lounge
91. Paint trim in toilet
92. Source and order bamboo
93. Fill/seal gaps around window exteriors
94. Pick up vacuum cleaner
95. Paint ceiling
96. Source and order shelves for toilet
97. Submit mooc writing assignments (17th)
98. File US tax return
99. Code business bank accounts
100. Update calendars and to-do list (19th)

And also, I must watch TV with DH.  Here's what we watched together:

• The Colbert Report (x7)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (x7)
• Fargo (x10)
• Game of Thrones 
• Halt and Catch Fire (x2)
• Klondike (x3)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (x1)
• Orphan Black
• Real Time with Bill Maher
• Quirke

Here's what I'm reading:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871), by Lewis Carroll
• Dark Eden (2012), by Chris Beckett
• The Dark Is Rising (1973), by Susan Cooper
• Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker
• The Quarry (2013), by Iain Banks