OT getting things done

Because of the bad bit that sometimes comes at the end of 'list days' - when the list doesn't get finished (at least, most of mine end that way >gOk, I'll admit it....there are days I seem to bounce around the house,

If you figure that out please let me know. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I felt the same years ago. Now I am happy if more than 50 percent of a list is marked done. So I wonder why I don't make them anymore. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Well, unfortunately (or fortunately?) I'm not compulsive enough to feel badly if the list doesn't get finished. I figure it's just the start of the next list, so I'm ahead of the game! I'm just glad when something DOES get checked off!!!

That's my feeling Debra. My list is short and easy. Mostly little niggling things I haven't done and are easily accomplished. No "paint the living room" chores etc.

I'm with you. My list is things to do not things to do today. Maybe that's why it doesn't bother me to not check off everything. My sister once told me that some days she puts on her list things like "brush teeth" "make the bed" so that she is sure to check something off.

marcella

Paint the livingroom has to be broken down into several steps or you will just be sad at not marking anything off your list. I'd break it down to: buy paint, gather supplies and tools, moving furniture, moving wall art, removing nails and cobwebs (there is always one in an upper corner), laying down tarps, spackle nail holes, tape off trim and such, apply primer if needed, paint the walls, paint the trim, remove tape, put away tools and supplies, replace furniture, re-hang wall art, vac the floor. That is a lot of work and should be listed. Debra in VA See my quilts at

We picked a color (DH & I) the rest was no problem. We hired someone to do the rest of the job. Best money we ever spent. Anna Belle in Palm Bay

I've been stuck on colors for almost two years.

no contest.

jeanne

"KJ" wrote...

I only look at the big paint chips--those little strips are not big enough to get a real idea of how a color looks on a wall. I tape the big chips to the walls and see how the room's light makes it change over the course of the day. Then I just keep eliminating chips, based on the changing light, until I have one.

I must have a blue bedroom, a sunny yellow kitchen, and everywhere else sort of builds from there. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I have a blue bedroom and yellow kitchen :) Trying to decide on the hallway now... so I got a pile of paint pot testers in various shades of yellow and have that painted on in patches. DH says if I keep doing that I won't need to get the decorator in.... yes I just need to get the decorator in!!! Have asked a 3rd mannie let's hope he does it. Had two in already, one never came back after coming to look at the job, the second said he'd start at the begining of August, no sign of him. DH is getting really worried he may have to do it himself. The wall paper is sitting there waiting too. What was the question again........... Oh yes well I did the teeth cleaning bit today.. what else did I have to do? Elly.......... miserably nursing a cold today..:( but it didn't stop me making cranberry muffins and eating 3 of them!

Debra wrote:

We've done a "sunny yellow" kitchen, green living room, muted yellow den/study for SO. He picked den and LR colors, I agreed with resevations on the green which I now love. BUT, he insisted on a PINK hallway, I still have resevations after two years.

Bedroom will be blue, my studio will be bright creamy color with a white ceiling.

Painting is a work in progress in this 15 YO house that was all eggshell white, and never had any new paint when we started this painting with color!

My Mum once had a flamingo pink LR with green furniture!

Bonnie, in Middletown, VA

Ah well, Elly, you know what they say: feed a cold ... and starve a fever! . In message , Elly writes

Well I'm doing my best to feed it:) Just polished off a bowl of jam roly poly and custard!! after my dinner. Hubby went up to the 'corner' shop to get a couple of beers and asked if I wanted some pud. I said yes but nothing too stodgy so he came back with jam rp.?? It tasted fine.:) but now I can't move >BG< what an excuse not to wash up.lol. Elly

Patti wrote:

I love pink, so one year decided I would have pink walls in the living room. I hated it. It drove me up the wall. Now my living room is a cream of sorts, boring but easy to live with. It's needing done again too but must get that hall done first. More decisions.

Elly

B> We've done a "sunny yellow" kitchen, green living room, muted yellow

Gladys Taber (who wrote the Stillmeadow books) said, "Contentment is a list with half of it crossed off."

Nann