What do you never have time to do?

For me, it's finishing the decoration of my apartment. I also haven't had time to do all my laundry. I never have time to answer my e-mail or write in my cyber-diary as much as I'd like.

What's the answer -- calling in sick? Changing your priorities? Adding another day to the week?

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Answers

I never make time to do my laundry, and I will only do it when I'm out of underwear. The saddest thing is that the washing machine is only about 15 feet from my bedroom.

I probably need to write down on my wall calendar to do laundry on certain days, because if I write something on that calendar it is like writing it in stone and it must happen.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Clean my walk-in closet that you can no longer walk into because it is full of crap. When I finish grad school in May, my top priority is to thoroughly clean that damn thing, so it will stop taunting me with its huge bags of unexamined laundry. So my solution is to sit back and do nothing about it now (except glare at the mess).

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Painting, working on my scrapbook, and working on my personal writing projects.

Housecleaning *always* gets in the way. And to avoid cleaning, I sit down in front of the tv to work up energy and feel the guilt of not cleaning.

Tiny houses are so cruel. Too little space, too much stuff, so it's always messy no matter how much you clean. It was supposed to work the other way, dammit! Little spaces are supposed to be easier.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Vacuuming. Painting/wallpapering. Dusting. Grooming the dogs properly instead of going clipper-happy and hacking away till they look they just got mauled.

The things that just aren't interesting don't get done unless there's a vital need.

My solution has been to acquire a real tolerance for clutter and to tell people my child cuts my dogs' hair.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming. Writing. Working on journal submissions. Spending quality time with The Husband-Type Man.

I'd like to see another day added to the week, personally. A non-work day, natch.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I need to go to the grocery store big-time. I think I'll have to skip something tomorrow night so I can go. Sadly, when my daughter gets sick (not too sick), it's a relief for me 'cause I can stay home with her and get some stuff done or catch up on some much needed sleep.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Working on my personal web and DVD projects. Seems I'm always doing projects for everyone else, especially my wife, and not really setting aside the time for my own stuff, the things that interest me the most. But usually I make the time for most everything else.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I never have time to do anything. But somehow I always manage to find time to be online.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Amen, Shelly.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Oh, Lord, Nicole, I have gone out and bought my kid more socks just to avoid laundry for three more days. We have to go to the laundrymat, so it's quite a painful process. Kids generate a lot of dirty clothes.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Dwanollah! YOU ACTUALLY don't get things done? What?! I thought you were the Martha Stewart of Gwentown and could talk on the phone and bathe the dog at the same time. With dinner on. You're slipping.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I did a load of laundry today. Thought I'd give the wife a break. james

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I never have time to do the 50 million crazy ideas that I have on my list. So I work on all of them at once. Then I get nothing done. My new motto is "one thing at a time". So far it's working. But telling myself "no" is very hard.

I need clones of myself to do all the boring mundane day-to-day life stuff so that my time can be cleared to do whatever I want.

Somehow I always manage to sneak in a little session with The Sims though. Damn them all to hell! I bought this damn game when it first came out and can you believe I'm still completely addicted!

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

*head toss* No, no, Bubba darling, I am not the UberHousewife Mrtha Stywrrt... I am the Stuck Up Pretentious Bitchy Mrtha Stywrrt who is FAR too busy harrassing the butcher for the perfect cut of rib roast and throwing together scrummy Italian feasts that I can't be bothered with the little things like dusting and vacuuming.... "Bathe the dog"...? Ha. As if.

:)

Actually, I'm more apt to be trying to do everything with my nose in a book... and there's the problem.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

These days, Gwen, I never have time to pick up those tables that were gifts from friends. Sorry.

No, seriously. Walking. Dammit. I just want 1.5 hours a day, 3-4 days out of the week, to strech, walk my 3 miles, stretch and therefore feel better in many ways. It has been many, many months since I've been able to do that. And too many times that I tried starting again and ended up stopping. What is sadder is that this isn't the day I start again, and tomorrow won't be that day either.

Maybe Thursday. Boo-hoo.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

I almost called you from work today, but then I didn't fucking have time. Don't feel bad coz I still haven't cleaned off the table yet, anyway. I want to go to Westheimer and get a dresser. I checked Heights Sunday but they didn't have as much as Westheimer. I did see this one art deco marble top, though...

And um... yeah, I don't have time to walk, either. I was going to try to walk SATURDAYS ONLY, and I can't even fucking do that. I walked around Sharpstown a little this morning. Does that count?

Fucking work. I blame ANPO.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

Not only have I not done my taxes yet, but I haven't even found my W-2, which is somewhere in my "stuff", which is folders of crap that I should file, if I had a filing cabinet. Which I don't. It's hard for me to get to the gym, I should go in the morning, but it's DARK in the morning (waah!) and I'll do anything instead, so if someone, for example, says "want to go to a worm fight?", I'm like "yeah, I'm in, I was going to go to the gym but the hell with it". So I've been going at lunch. Which is apain in the ass, so I don't do it too often.

I make a lot of lists. Sometimes I drop my laundry off and have it done. I'd like to add another day to the week - in the summer we have off on Friday's, I hope I can use it and not just waste it. We'll see.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

I dropped my laundry off for the laundromat people to do yesterday, even though it costs twice as much. But I figure that a)it gives me time to go to the gym and clean my apartment, and b)gets me out of doing laundry, so it's well worth it.

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

Usually, I'd say that writing poetry is what I don't have time to do. This week and last, it's all I've been doing and I can't find time to do the other things, i.e. cleaning my filthy house and sending off signed contracts to a magazine that hired me to do an essay that's due in SEVEN DAYS and which I have NOT written.

My only solution is sleepless nights and the knowledge of an impending deadline of some sort (house must be clean because guests are expected, etc). Nothing else seems to work.

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001