Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Just do SOMETHING for fifteen minutes...

FlyLady says, no whining. Even if you think you don't feel well, or are sad, or in pain, suck it up and just DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING, for fifteen minutes. Set your timer and go.

I have struggled this week. For some reason, everything is making me feel down and listless. I don't want to DO ANYTHING. Period.

But I HAVE made and cleaned up dinner every night. I HAVE put things away when I was finished with them. I cleaned up my sons room in less than ten minutes, just by putting things back into the closet where they belonged. I have straightened the house before I went to bed every night. My tax info is gathered and waiting for me to do my taxes (shudder....).

I am just not feeling like myself. I don't think I laughed at all today, which is completely unusual for me. Someone send me something that will make me laugh... please?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Im not sure if you will find this as funny as I did tonight, it turned the night around.

I was in rehearsal, and you know Im playing Teddy Roosevelt. Well, in the opening act, there is a VERY long scene where I just sit on this loveseat and listen to one of the ladies and a guy talk, for 5-10 minutes. The problem is I have already emptied my teacup by this time, so there is NOTHING to do.

So, since I was supposed to be crazy, I started of thinking of things to do.

The thing that made me start cracking up (and had to stop rehearsal) was that I dunked my finger in the make-believe tea and started rubbing my finger around and around the rim, like I was trying to make a wine glass hum.

It brought rehearsal to a roaring stop. (if you can imagine)

Anyway, I was on the floor laughing and I just couldnt do it again without cracking up.

Troy

Dawn & Paul said...

A friend sent me this prescription today. Got a smile from me. I love the 15 minute idea. Dawn

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Truth Or Dare, and Naked Twister.

jennifer said...

*choke* Okay, just about inhaled an olive...

That is pretty funny, Troy. I can see it in my mind's eye... I've actually used the whole water goblet trick to keep an unruly crowd of cub scouts occupied. I'm sure their parents loved me for that. My son still can't resist at restaurants... (Okay, I just ate a green olive that tasted like a carrot.... weird...)

Dawn & paul: Thanks for the Tequila™ prescription! No wonder the twenty-somethings at my family Christmas monopolized it :)

Thanks, everyone! I can't wait to see what others have to share! :)

nerdrium said...

You'll appreciate this one....

Last week President Bush met with Donald Rumsfeld for an update on the situation in Iraq. Rumsfeld noted that the situation hadn't changed much--a number of Iraqi police officers had been killed, a few civilians had been kidnapped, and four Brazilian soldiers had been killed while fighting with insurgents.

Bush gasped and put his head in his hands. He sat there motionless for a few moments, then looked back at Rumsfeld and let out a long sigh. He shook his head in disbelief a few times and then stood up and started pacing the room.

Rumsfeld, of course, couldn't understand what the problem was--the report he'd just given wasn't anything out of the ordinary. His previous reports had often contained much more unsettling information.

Finally Bush returned to his chair. He shook his head a few more times and let out another long sigh.

Rumsfeld spoke up. "Mr. President--I don't understand why you are so distraught. Why are you so upset?"

"Don," the president replied, "I just need to know one thing...."






"....How much is in a 'brazilian?'"