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

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

1. Dishes [x15, #4 x2]
2. Laundry [x4]
3. Wipe down the kitchen counters [x5]
4. Clean the sinks [x5]
5. Sweep the kitchen floor [x4]
6. Clean the toilet [x4]
7. Plan and prepare dinner [x5, DH x2, scrounge x3]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [DH x1, #2 x2]
9. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center (17th)
10. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (11th)
11. Bee club? (20th)
12. Auckland-Kaitaia flights (12th)
13. Arrange Rarotonga airport-resort transfers (12th)
14. School holidays - O/N guests (12th)
15. Christmas shopping (180 mins, 13th, 15th, 16th)
16. Christmas decorations (300 mins, 12th, 18th, 19th)
17. Drop off donations
18. Flea treatment 
19. Fix the fence (19th)
20. Addition finish-out (11th)
21. Buy more astroturf, hoses, cinder blocks, mulch, backpack sprayer, small pick-ax, brackets and PVC poles
22. 27-pick-up in the addition 
23. 27-pick-up in the storage room/garage (10)
24. 27-pick-up in the office (13)
25. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden (1)
26. 27-pick-up in the dining room (19th)
27. 27-pick-up in the lounge (25)
28. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden (2)
29. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (8)
30. 27-pick-up in the bedroom (8)
31. 27-pick-up in the laundry room (1)
32. Spray weed killer in the shed garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
33. Weed and mulch established beds in the back porch garden  (17th)
34. Buy seeds and seedlings for the back porch garden
35. Plant seeds and seedlings in the back porch garden 
36. Remove grass from kill zones in the back porch garden (60 mins, 13th, 15th)
37. Spray weed killer in the back porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
38. Weed and mulch established beds in the front porch garden
39. Buy seeds and seedlings for the front porch garden
40. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch (15th)
41. Sweep and tidy the back porch (15th)
42. Dust the office (16th)
43. Clean light fixtures in the office (20th)
44. Vacuum office (20th)
45. 15 minutes of filing
46. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge (20th)
47. Dust curtains in the dining room (14th)
48. Clean light fixture in the dining room (16th)
49. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the dining room (16th)
50. Dust dining room and lounge (16th)
51. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the lounge (12th)
52. Clean windows and window sill in the lounge (20th)
53. Clean ceiling fan blades in the lounge (12th)
54. Straighten and dust lounge bookcases (12th)
55. Polish furniture in the lounge (20th)
56. Vacuum dining room and lounge (20th)
57. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch (20th)
58. Sweep the front porch (20th)
59. Sweep off front porch furniture (14th)
60. Wipe down tables, banisters, and light fixtures on the front porch
61. Clean windows, window sill, and door in entry (15th)
62. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the entry
63. Vacuum entry (12th)
64. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances (12th)
65. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts (13th)
66. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen (14th)
67. Clean windows and window sill in the kitchen (16th)
68. Empty fridge and thoroughly clean in the inside (14th)
69. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the kitchen (12th)
70. Mop the kitchen floor (15th)
71. Make a grocery list (19th)
72. Grocery shopping
73. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom (12th)
74. Vacuum hallway (12th)
75. Clean the tub (12th)
76. Clean windows and window sills in bathroom and toilet (14th)
77. Empty rubbish bags in toilet and bathroom (14th)
78. Clean outside and behind the toilet (15th)
79. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the toilet (15th)
80. Mop bathroom and toilet room (15th)
81. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the bedroom (16th)
82. Tidy one section of bedroom closet
83. Dust bedroom (16th)
84. Change sheets (20th)
85. Vacuum bedroom (20th)
86. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage (14th)
87. Wipe down top of washer/dryer (12th)
88. Wipe down laundry counter (12th)
89. Clean inner washer lid (12th)
90. Clean washer lint filter (12th)
91. Sweep laundry room floor (14th)
92. Clean storage room
93. Wrap presents (x4)
94. Work on current retaining wall (90 mins, 14th, 19th)
95. Mow the grass (#4, 18th)
96. Attach stakes to border for Buddha fountain garden
97. Email Mom (16th)
98. Order library books
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:

• The Big Bang Theory
• Bones
• The Colbert Report (x4)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (x4)
• Elementary
• The Fall (x6)
• Homeland (x5)
• The Mentalist
• Modern Family
• The Newsroom

Here's what I'm reading:

• Marooned in Realtime (1986), by Vernor Vinge
• Silver on the Tree (1977), by Susan Cooper
• The Sixth Lamentation (2003), by William Brodrick
• The Soldier's Return (2002), by Melvyn Bragg
• Tenth of December: Stories (2013), by George Saunders