Exhibit A: my desk at school. Unfortunately this is its natural state. Okay, fine, it's actually a little less messy than usual. Yes, those calendars on the bulletin board are from December.
Exhibit B: my car. The check engine light has been on since last May. A piece of it fell off while I was driving down the highway a couple weeks ago. (It was making a strange noise which stopped as soon as that piece fell off, so I assumed it was for the best.) The oil hasn't been changed since... well... I guess Tyler changed it last. That means it's been... longer than recommended. I've had one headlight out for at least three months. In my defense, I did try to change the headlight, but I couldn't get the cover off so I gave up and figured that one headlight was better than none. Plus it makes my car look totally badass.
Exhibit C: my utilities. Paying the bills was always Tyler's job. Sometimes I forget to pay a bill until whatever it is I'm not paying for gets shut off. To be fair, this is a very effective reminder technique. Well played, cable company. Well played.
Oh no. Now that I've started listing my irresponsibilities, I can't stop. Sometimes I put meat in the fridge to defrost and forget about it for a couple weeks. Sometimes I put off taking out the trash until the smell forces me to do it. I have incomplete audits on some of my patients' charts that were due last October. I have a strange aversion to writing papers for oral surgery and so I haven't fulfilled a single oral surgery requirement since 2008. Sometimes I keep my Netflix DVDs for 3 weeks at a time because I forget that I have them. AHHH!! Can't stop!!
My point is. I don't do it all. It only looks like I do.
Now please share all of your similar stories in the comments below, to make me feel better. And if you have no similar stories and you actually do "do it all", please refrain from saying so.
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Well, I'm loathe to admit it, but I don't even have a child, and DO have another adult living in my house (namely my husband), and I am still a bit less together than you. So there. ;)
I'm a surgical resident with a 5-year-old. When his kindergarten recently asked us to bake something for a school fundraiser I may or may not have bought a package of cookies, ripped them open, and repackaged them in plastic wrap to pass them off as my contribution. Also, as I am sure you in particular will appreciate, I really don't think I've been to the dentist (for me) since my son was born.
Well, I hope this doesn't freak you out too much since you don't know who I am (I forget how I ended up on your blog -- a friend of a friend had a tag to it or something, i was bored, and it had a catchy title... ) but I've been reading for a couple weeks now. (I promise I'm not too overly creepy.)
I'd like to share with you my list of "shortcuts":
1) I don't brush the 1 1/2 year old's hair. It's just going to revert back to sticking straight up anyways.
2)when my 4 year old says she wants corndogs for supper, i get excited because that means i don't have to cook.
3)if the kids don't have any visible crust on them, i sometimes skip bath time and catch up on 'The Bachelor' or 'House Hunters' on DVR instead.
Please feel free to blog-stalk me back! I've been feeling a bit guilty that I haven't announced my reading-presence earlier...
believe me, there is not one woman who does not have a list. even monica on friends had her secret closet where she stashed all of her crap. ;)
I'm not sure I have the time to write down all of mine, but they are lengthy. Which is further proof that my OCD is sometimes optional as I seem to only be OCD about some things and then lazy about others. I used to be a FREAK about Reese's cleanliness and now I am far more relaxed, like hey I don't think she looks homeless yet so she's good to go out in public like that. I often play games on my phone while she bathes because really after the washing I am bored and she's have a grand time so really its win win right?
Dude- I had a netflix DVD for about 2 mos. Turns out I wasn't as interested in watching it as I thought I was. Also, my sink is currently full of dishes. I am the only one who lives here and I haven't been all that busy lately. More like I get lazy sometimes until my OCD brain goes "kelly, this is gross- you don't live like this." Except apparently sometimes I do.
put your bills on auto pay
Girl please. I don't have to do it on my own so it's even worse for me to admit this but I will.
Last night. I noticed the bathtub was grimy. like, bad grimy. but it was already 20 minutes past the normal bath time and I really REALLY need my "after bed time" time... so in my toddler went.
Into the GRIME. For his BATH. I am ashamed.
ugh. I did scrub it out after he was in bed. It was just at that point.
Hahaha. Thanks everyone.
Anonymous- well that wouldn't make for very good blogging, now would it. Just sayin!
I have a two month old, and couldn't figure out for the LIFE OF ME why my car smelled like crap. Not to mention the car is BRAND NEW! I searched and searched only to find a horribly poopy diaper under the driver seat. My feet are always cold so I always have the heat on the ground, so I was pretty much dutch ovening myself with my baby's poop in my own car... Nice!
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