I Have a Honey-Do List a Mile Long & No Honey To Do It

I am the Queen of Procrastination when it comes to most home projects. I know certain things have to be done, but I just can't make myself do them in a timely manner. Unfortunately, because I'm single, I also can't pass the projects on to someone else. If they're going to be done, I have to do them. I just don't want to.

Just look at the list I have going now:

1. Dishes. I have a dishwasher, but I also have soft water and very little water pressure, which renders that dishwasher pretty much useless. As such, I tend to wash most dishes by hand and use paper or Styrofoam whenever possible. (Yes, I know the latter is environmentally unfriendly, but a mountain of stomach-curdling, food-covered, ceramic plates are Staci-unfriendly. Sometimes you just have to make sacrifices.) A few days ago I ran out of disposable plates and was forced to use the real thing. Now I have a pile in the sink that is calling out, "Wash me! Wash me!" whenever I walk by. I would just shove some ear plugs into my ears and ignore them a little longer, but the smell is starting to waft upstairs. Plus, if I don't take care of them tonight, I'll have to learn how to eat ice cream with a fork.
2. Carpet. The Mighty Mister has been at it again this week, proving his neutered manhood by marking everything upright. He has also been on a dog food strike for the last two days, which predictably has led to another bout of indigestion and lovely yellow bile on my carpet. That bile is harder to get up than urine. I'm going to have to steam clean tonight for the same reason I'm going to have to wash dishes. My nose can only take so much. Good times on a Friday night!
3. Light bulbs. I have those vanity bulbs in all of my bathrooms. I have been meaning to replace three or four blown ones for months now. I have the bulbs. They're sitting on the vanity. I just can't bring myself to climb on the sink and put them in.
4. Pictures. Last week I rearranged a couple of pieces of furniture in the living room and dining room. With the new arrangement, some pictures had to be moved or switched out as well. I managed to hang most of them. The last two wouldn't even take me five minutes to hang, but I still can't make myself pick up a hammer.
5. The hole in the tub. I have a crack in my master bathtub. I patched it a year or two ago, but sometime around Thanksgiving, it opened back up. I immediately ran to Lowe's, bought another repair kit, washed the tub, and then did nothing more than sit the repair kit on the side of the tub. Because I have another bathroom I can shower in, I haven't made scooping that goop out and pressing it into the crack my top priority. I need to though for no other reason than, when I soak in the hallway bathtub and try to throw Bella her ball, I have to sit up and scoot towards the faucet to keep from throwing the ball down the stairs. Dumb reason, I know, but I gave up taking a bath sans a room full of ball-carrying dogs a long time ago.
6. The backyard lantana. It's a tall, twiggy mess, but I have put off cutting it back for so long that I will now have to wait until spring to cut it back or risk killing the plants.
7. The missing outlet in the garage. I know it's there. I need to find it so I can plug in my elliptical. I just don't feel like moving everything around to find.
8. The fluorescent lights in the kitchen. The fixture needs a new ballast. When I can afford an electrician, I'll get one. Until then, I can make do with the spotlight or the chandelier.
9. The vinyl floor. I need to figure out how to glue it down in the places where the idiot builder cut it too short for the baseboard to hold it down.
10. My sister's pillow. I've been meaning to sew it and mail it since New Year's. It's now almost March, and I have yet to thread a needle.
11. The refrigerator. It needs cleaning out again. How does so much stuff get in there when I never cook?
12. The medicine cabinet. I probably need to clean it out, too. It has been awhile.
13. Makeup brushes. I've had them sitting in a bowl on my dresser for three weeks now. I just haven't taken the time out to pour the water and soap in there and wash them.
14. The Pilates Performer. I took my mom's Pilates machine when she died. I finally put it together a few days ago and realized why she never used it. The thing is ridiculously long and bulky. I need to move it to another room, but I have to clean carpet and move furniture around first.
15. Clothes and towels. For someone who only goes to the grocery store and Petsmart, I seem to get a lot of clothes and towels dirty. I'm always washing them, and I always have several baskets to fold.
    
16. Transmission fluid. I've had a bottle sitting on the kitchen counter for a month. All I need to do is go outside, pop the hood, stick the funnel in the right place, and pour it in. So why haven't I done so?
17. Nail holes. When I brought back some of my mom's artwork last summer, I had to move things around. I also moved things around last week. Now I have all the nail holes that need to be filled with spackle and touched up with paint.
18. My grandmother's birdhouses and trays. The trays were last year's birthday gift. The birdhouses were this year's. I spent several days working on them. Then the whole restaurant drama occurred, and she failed to so much as send me a birthday card so I stopped working on them. I'm going to finish them one day, just not for her. I'm going to paint them for myself.
19. The office armoire. I have decided that I really want to paint it. It is just too dark the way it is now and matches nothing in that room. It's just not going to happen anytime soon.
    
20. Blogging. It's not exactly a household item, but I have had problems lately finding the energy to write anything or read other blogs. The job search is so depressing and tiring that by the end of the day, the only thing I want to do is pull the covers over my head and cry. Hopefully, I'll have something soon, and I can't get back to the things I enjoy.

If I sit here any longer, I'm sure I could thing of other things I need to do around the house. I'm sure there's a toilet that needs to be scrubbed, a drain that needs to be unstopped. or a spider that needs to be smashed into oblivion somewhere. However, the longer I sit here, the longer I procrastinate, and the less those things get done.

So I'll just say this. A list a mile long may be a flaw, but at least I can never say I have nothing to do.