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

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

1. Dishes [x22, #4 x2]
2. Laundry [x8]
3. Wipe down the kitchen counters [x9]
4. Clean the sinks [x8]
5. Sweep the kitchen floor [x8]
6. Clean the toilet [x6]
7. Plan and prepare dinner [x5, DH x3, takeaway x1]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [DH x1]
9. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center 
10. Drop off donations
11. Library
12. Take #3 and friend to Whangarei (roads flooded, 5 hours in the car, 12th)
13. Take #3 to catch a bus (13th)
14. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (13th)
15. Organize leak inspections/claims/estimates/repairs (3 hours, 14th, 17th, 18th)
16. Source and order hay
17. Get Animal Health Board herd number
18. Pick up vacuum cleaner
19. Buy more retaining wall blocks, potting mix, gravel, mulch, paving stone, brackets and PVC poles
20. Clean windows and window sills in the addition (75 mins)
21. Clean washer lint filter (13th)
22. 27-pick-up in the laundry room (13)
23. Sweep and mop laundry room floor (15th)
24. 27-pick-up in the storage room (15th)
25. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen (15th)
26. 27-pick-up in the addition (2)
27. Make a grocery list (15th)
28. Grocery shopping (18th, DH)
29. Vacuum hallway
30. Vacuum bedroom
31. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch (15th)
32. Sweep and tidy the back porch (15th)
33. Vacuum entry
34. Dust the office (15th)
35. Vacuum office (17th)
36. Dust dining room and lounge (16th)
37. Vacuum dining room and lounge (50 mins, with office, cursory, 17th)
38. 27-pick-up in the office (15th)
39. 15 minutes of filing (15th)
40. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden (3)
41. Remove grass from kill zones in the back porch garden (35 mins, 15th)
42. Spray weed killer in the back porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock 
43. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge (16th)
44. 27-pick-up in the dining room (15)
45. 27-pick-up in the lounge (15)
46. Buy seeds and seedlings for the front porch garden
47. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the lounge
48. Clean windows and window sill in the lounge
49. Straighten and dust lounge bookcases
50. Plant seeds and seedlings in the front porch garden 
51. Clean under couch cushions in the lounge
52. Clean baseboards in the lounge
53. Polish furniture in the lounge
54. Remove grass from kill zones in the front porch garden 
55. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch
56. Sweep the front porch
57. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden (17)
58. Sweep off front porch furniture
59. Wipe down tables, banisters, and light fixtures on the front porch
60. Clean light fixture in entry
61. Spray weed killer in the front porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
62. Clean windows, window sill, and door in entry
63. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the entry
64. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (1)
65. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances
66. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts
67. Empty fridge and thoroughly clean in the inside
68. Weed established beds in the water tank garden (30 mins, 17th)
69. Detailed clean stove and oven
70. Wash canisters and knick-knacks in the kitchen
71. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the kitchen
72. Buy seeds and seedlings for the water tank garden
73. Clean windows and window sill in the kitchen
74. Clean light fixtures in the kitchen
75. Mop the kitchen floor
76. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom
77. 27-pick-up in the bedroom
78. Empty rubbish bags in toilet and bathroom
79. Plant seeds and seedlings in the water tank garden 
80. Clean outside and behind the toilet
81. Scrub fixtures in bathtub, bathroom sink, and shower
82. Clean the tub
83. Mop bathroom and toilet room
84. Change sheets
85. Dust bedroom
86. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage
87. Wipe down top of washer/dryer
88. Wipe down laundry counter
89. Clean inner washer lid
90. Finish off lower retaining wall garden
91. Build blueberry bed 
92. Buy soil and amendments for blueberry bed
93. Touch up office wall paint
94. Finish painting trim in office
95. Paint trim in toilet
96. Order library books
97. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the toilet
98. Remove grass from kill zones in the water tank garden 
99. Code business bank accounts
100. Update calendars and to-do list (20th)

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

• 24 
• The Colbert Report (x4)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (x4)
• Halt and Catch Fire (x2)
• Hemlock Grove
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Oblivion
• Phase IV
• Real Time with Bill Maher (x2)
• Still more West Wing (It's winter, and raining, and all our regular shows are on break.)

Here's what I'm reading:

• "The Country of the Blind" (1904), by H. G. Wells
• Herland (1915), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Invisible Man (1897), by H. G. Wells
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), by H. G. Wells
• A Princess of Mars (1917), by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Reapers Are the Angels (2010), by Alden Bell
• "The Star" (1897), by H. G. Wells