100 Things I Must-Should-Ought-Want to Do (21-31 December 2014)

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

1. Dishes [x20, #2 x2, #4 x1]
2. Laundry [x10]
3. Wipe down the kitchen counters [x7]
4. Clean the sinks [x7]
5. Sweep the kitchen floor [x6]
6. Clean the toilet [x5]
7. Plan and prepare dinner [x3, DH x1, #3 x2, shared x2, scrounge x3]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [ ]
9. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center (23rd)
10. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (21st)
11. Make a cherry pie (27th)
12. Make a pecan pie (24th)
13. Finish Christmas shopping (5 hrs, 30 mins, 21st, 22nd)
14. Finish wrapping Christmas presents (120 mins, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th)
15. Prepare Christmas dinner for 9 (25th)
16. Christmas
17. Shop for Ed's birthday
18. Ed's birthday (27th)
19. New Year's Eve (31st)
20. Flea treatment (30th)
21. Buy more retaining wall blocks, backpack sprayer, stakes, mulch, brackets and PVC poles
22. 27-pick-up in the addition
23. 27-pick-up in the storage room/garage
24. 27-pick-up in the office (20)
25. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden
26. 27-pick-up in the dining room (2)
27. 27-pick-up in the lounge (10)
28. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden (1)
29. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (2)
30. 27-pick-up in the bedroom (2)
31. 27-pick-up in the laundry room
32. Spray weed killer in the shed garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
33. Buy seeds and seedlings for the back porch garden
34. Plant seeds and seedlings in the back porch garden 
35. Spray weed killer in the back porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
36. Weed and mulch established beds in the front porch garden
37. Buy seeds and seedlings for the front porch garden
38. Plant seeds and seedlings in the front porch garden 
39. Remove grass from kill zones in the front porch garden 
40. Spray weed killer in the front porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
41. Weed and mulch established beds in the water tank garden
42. Buy seeds and seedlings for the water tank garden
43. Plant seeds and seedlings in the water tank garden 
44. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch (27th)
45. Sweep and tidy the back porch (27th)
46. Dust the office (27th)
47. Vacuum office
48. 15 minutes of filing
49. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge (30th)
50. Clean baseboards in the dining room (30th)
51. Dust dining room and lounge (30th)
52. Dust curtains in the lounge (30th)
53. Clean baseboards in the lounge (30th)
54. Vacuum dining room and lounge
55. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch (28th)
56. Wipe down tables, banisters, and light fixtures on the front porch (28th)
57. Sweep the front porch (28th)
58. Clean windows, window sill, and door in entry (28th)
59. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the entry (28th)
60. Vacuum entry
61. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances (28th)
62. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts (28th)
63. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen (28th)
64. Clean windows and window sill in the kitchen (28th)
65. Mop the kitchen floor (28th)
66. Make a grocery list (29th)
67. Grocery shopping (29th)
68. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom
69. Clean light fixtures in the hallway (28th)
70. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the hallway (28th)
71. Vacuum hallway
72. Clean the tub (28th)
73. Clean windows and window sills in bathroom and toilet (28th)
74. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the bathroom (30th)
75. Clean baseboards in the toilet and bathroom (30th)
76. Straighten bathroom shelves and drawers (30th)
77. Clean siding in shower and around tub (31st)
78. Mop bathroom and toilet room (31st)
79. Dust bedroom
80. Change sheets
81. Clean ceiling fan blades in the bedroom
82. Clean windows and window sill in bedroom
83. Straighten and dust bookcase in bedroom
84. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the bedroom
85. Tidy one section of bedroom closet
86. Vacuum bedroom
87. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage (22nd)
88. Wipe down top of washer/dryer (22nd)
89. Wipe down laundry counter (22nd)
90. Clean inner washer lid (22nd)
91. Clean washer lint filter (22nd)
92. Sweep laundry room floor (22nd)
93. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the laundry room (22nd)
94. Change rubbish bin bag in the laundry room (22nd)
95. Mop laundry room floor (22nd)
96. Clean storage room
97. Complete post for Books I Read in 2014 (31st)
98. Work on current retaining wall 
99. Email Mom (21st)
100. Update calendars and to-do list (31st)

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

• Above Suspicion (x7)
• The Colbert Report (x2)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (x2)
• Downton Abbey
• Elementary
• The Mentalist (x2)
• Rome (x12)

Here's what I'm reading:

• Blind Man with a Pistol (1970), by Chester Himes
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2013), by Helen Fielding
• Doomsday Book (1992), by Connie Willis
• Factoring Humanity (1998), by Robert J. Sawyer
• Tenth of December: Stories (2013), by George Saunders