100 Things I Must-Should-Ought-Want to Do (1-10 January 2015)

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

(I'm finding it hard to motivate myself to clean the house just now as soon I'm going off to a tropical island and leaving the boys home alone.  It certainly won't be clean when I return.)

1. Dishes [x20, #4 x1]
2. Laundry [x7]
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, DH x3, #3 x2, takeaway x1]
8. Pick up and drop off #4 [DH x2, #3 x2]
9. Take rubbish and recycling to the transfer center (10th)
10. Pay bills due in the next 10 days (2nd)
11. Shop for new stove (9th)
12. Prepare for a week on tropical island:  shopping with #3 (5th)
13. Prepare for a week on tropical island:  book pedicures (6th)
14. Prepare for a week on tropical island:  replace smoke detector batteries (x1)
15. Buy more retaining wall blocks, backpack sprayer, stakes, mulch, brackets and PVC poles
16. 27-pick-up in the addition
17. 27-pick-up in the storage room/garage
18. 27-pick-up in the office (7)
19. 27-pick-up in the back porch garden
20. 27-pick-up in the dining room (7)
21. 27-pick-up in the lounge (9)
22. 27-pick-up in the front porch garden
23. 27-pick-up in the kitchen (3)
24. 27-pick-up in the bedroom (1)
25. 27-pick-up in the laundry room
26. Spray weed killer in the shed garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
27. Buy seeds and seedlings for the back porch garden
28. Plant seeds and seedlings in the back porch garden 
29. Spray weed killer in the back porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
30. Weed and mulch established beds in the front porch garden (40 mins, 8th)
31. Buy seeds and seedlings for the front porch garden
32. Plant seeds and seedlings in the front porch garden 
33. Remove grass from kill zones in the front porch garden 
34. Spray weed killer in the front porch garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
35. Weed and mulch established beds in the water tank garden (30 mins, 9th)
36. Buy seeds and seedlings for the water tank garden
37. Plant seeds and seedlings in the water tank garden 
38. Spray weed killer in the water tank garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
39. Weed and mulch established beds in the shed garden
40. Buy seeds and seedlings for the shed garden
41. Plant seeds and seedlings in the shed garden 
42. Remove grass from kill zones in the shed garden 
43. Spray weed killer in the shed garden; kill thistle and gorse in the paddock
44. Knock down cobwebs in freezer room, office, back porch
45. Clean back porch furniture
46. Sweep and tidy the back porch
47. Clean windows, window sills, and doors in the freezer room
48. Clean switch plates and walls in the freezer room
49. Straighten and dust office bookcases
50. Clean switch plates, door frames and walls in the office
51. Clean windows, window sills, and French doors in the office
52. Clean monitor in the office
53. Dust the office
54. Vacuum office
55. 15 minutes of filing
56. Knock down cobwebs in dining room and lounge
57. Clean switch plates, door frames, and walls in the dining room
58. Clean windows and window sill in the dining room
59. Polish dining room table
60. Straighten and dust dining room bookcases
61. Dust dining room and lounge
62. Clean ceiling fan blades in the lounge
63. Clean light fixtures and lamps in the lounge
64. Clean under couch cushions in the lounge
65. Vacuum dining room and lounge
66. Knock down cobwebs in entry, kitchen, front porch
67. Sweep the front porch
68. Clean windows, window sill, and door in entry
69. Clean light fixture in entry
70. Vacuum entry
71. Clean fridge, microwave, upright freezer, other appliances
72. Detailed clean stove and oven
73. Clean kitchen cabinet fronts
74. Straighten and wipe down one shelf or cabinet interior in the kitchen
75. Clean windows and window sill in the kitchen
76. Mop the kitchen floor
77. Make a grocery list
78. Grocery shopping
79. Knock down cobwebs in the toilet, bathroom, hallway, bedroom
80. Vacuum hallway
81. Clean the tub
82. Clean windows and window sills in bathroom and toilet
83. Mop bathroom and toilet room
84. Dust bedroom
85. Change sheets
86. Vacuum bedroom
87. Knock down cobwebs in laundry room, garage
88. Wipe down top of washer/dryer
89. Wipe down laundry counter
90. Clean inner washer lid
91. Clean washer lint filter
92. Sweep laundry room floor
93. Clean storage room
94. Work on current retaining wall 
95. Drain and clean hot tub (mostly done by #4)
96. Clean dust in addition's downstairs bathroom (mostly done by #4)
97. Take down the Christmas tree (2nd, 3rd)
98. Email Mom
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:

• Above Suspicion (x3)
• Agent Carter (x2)
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (x4)
• Elementary
• The Good Wife
• The Imitation Game
• The Leftovers (x10)
• The Mentalist
• Modern Family

Here's what I'm reading:

• Doomsday Book (1992), by Connie Willis
• Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), by P. D. James