Round Tuits

When I was a kid, there was a teacher who gave us all little round wooden disks with "TUIT" written on it. She explained that these were "Round Tuits", so that when we looked at them we would know it was time to get "around to" whatever we might be procrastinating about. Well, today was a Round Tuit day. I finally, finally took all of our dead electronic equipment to our county recycling facility where it will be disposed of properly instead of going to a landfill and leaching bad things into our water table. Whew! That feels so good! I dropped off a very large TV, two computers, a printer, an old battery operated mini TV, two DVR units, and a bunch of miscellaneous items. Most of it was ours, some of it was from my grandmother's house, and ALL of it was stacked up in the corners of my house for WAAAAAAYYYY too long!

It feels so good to both have that stuff out of my house and to have a task that's been hanging over my head for a long time crossed OFF my to do list!

PS: Saturday update: I noticed a pile of stuff right in the middle of my bedroom floor today- a dead computer and a dead VCR I FORGOT TO TAKE TO THE RECYCLING PLACE! How could I have missed it? I mean it's RIGHT in the middle of the floor! MAJOR ARGHHHH!!!!

My To Do List

I had a rare and momentary lull in my to do list today. I mean there's still a lot that needs to be done (laundry, as usual, is up to the ceiling, among many other household tasks) but, and here's the spooky part, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY URGENT "FIRES" TO PUT OUT!!! Nothing urgent for Girl Scouts, although I have a pinning ceremony for 200 I have to plan for Monday night, nothing for my grandmother's estate (she passed away last June and I'm executor), no driving anyone anywhere, no one scheduled to visit, no play dates, nothing! I was going to be free to laze around and enjoy a much needed break today, or so I thought. Sigh... Then something came up for my younger daughter's Girl Scout troop this afternoon that was a drop-everything-and-deal-with-it kind of thing, so I did. Best laid plans, as they say.

The Youngest starts soccer next week too, so that will put a wrinkle in my schedule. They expect parents to stay at the field during practice so I'm at least hoping to multi-task and take my daily walks while I'm there but I'll have to see how that goes. It's his first time playing organized sports so I'm hoping he has fun with it. He's been attending a homeschool P.E. program for a couple of years now so he's been involved with sports through that, but that's not as intense as the youth soccer leagues are by a long shot. He had to go for his "valation" (evaluation) a few weeks ago with his dad and thought the kids he was playing with were going to be on his team. He was telling me about "the fast kid" this morning and I had to explain to him that the kids he met were going to be mixed up on all different teams. He's been talking about it quite a bit so I know he's excited. I'll be taking the camera along for those first few practices! :)