Lightening Online

And no, you can’t have it.  Well, you can if you like.  You just can’t have mine.

I’ve been concerned that my term of “long service leave” is flashing past at the rate of knots and I’m not going to get anywhere NEAR the number of things done I wanted to.

I probably missed the point a bit in that my plans for long-service leave have pretty much been all related to the house.  Catch up on the housework, decluttering the cupboards, do some deep clean and some painting.  Not too much in there for “me”.

Mind you, a clean, clutter free, freshly painted home would sure make me smile. 

And I’ve been spending some of my time planning our big trip which definitely feels like time spent for me.

Anyway, back to my point about the “roundtoit”.

I’ve been working on a slight change to my weekly schedule.

Back when I had kids at home I used to think of Friday’s as my “day off”.  Not that I actually had the day off (since the kids were home) but it was a day I gave myself permission NOT to feel guilty about not doing any housework.

LOL.  Pretty sad that I needed to give myself permission not to feel guilty really isn’t it?

But housework is the kind of job that is never done and this somehow helped me to go easier on myself.  Whatever works right?

Well, now I’m trying to schedule in time for “me” every day (easier with no kids home during school hours) so I’ve decided to make some changes to my weekly schedule.

I’m making Friday’s my “roundtoit” day.  Every Friday I’m going to try and do something that has been bugging me but I haven’t quite gotten to.

Last week it was washing the lounge room windows and flyscreens.

It’s awesome because everytime I look at them now, they make me smile.

This week was going to be oiling the front decking but I did that yesterday instead.  I’ll probably do the family room windows and get 2 “roundtoit” jobs done this week.

Once I can organise the paint (need to decide on colours first), I’m going to start painting on Fridays.

I’ve realised that if I leave it until I get “round to it”, or I feel like I have the time, it just isn’t going to happen.

For now, this is what my weekly schedule looks like:

MONDAY - Office Day.  Pay Bills, Tidy Desk, Declutter Office/Paperwork (a never ending task).  Gym inthe afternoon.

TUESDAY - Cleaning Day.  Dusting, Vacuuming, Mopping, Bathroom, Toilets.

WEDNESDAY - Town Day (piano lesson, grocery shopping, banking etc) plus “Make It Better” Day where I visit each room and just do something small to “make it better”.

THURSDAY - Kitchen Day.  Clean oven, microwave, fridge and cupboard doors.  Baking.  Also working on decluttering and resorting kitchen cupboards/drawers at the rate of 1 per week.

FRIDAY - Roundtoit Day.  Deep Cleaning (such as windows).  Painting and other niggly jobs that just need me to get around to doing them.  P&F meetings are usually a Friday too - which is another “roundtoit” since I’ve been planning to get involved with P&F for some time now.

SATURDAY - Bedrooms get tidied and a few other small jobs.  Soon to be taken up with sport so we’ll have to rejiggle a bit.

SUNDAY - Church in the morning followed by family time/rest day.

Washing gets done on a daily basis (other than Sundays).  I find it helps to have a theme for each day.  It helps keep me on track and breaks up the week.  Some weeks more gets done around the house than others but that’s life.

Do you work with a weekly or daily schedule?  How do you organise your week so that everything gets done, while still having time for the projects you really want to get to?