garage burnout

I always have the best of intentions on Sunday night. I think of all the things I'm going to tackle in the coming week. I don't know why but on Sundays I feel like I can do anything. Last week I decided Monday morning that with my new super cleaning power I could take on our garage. My goal was to make my garage more organized so I could park both cars in there instead of just one. I got off to a good start. Me and Megan were cruising along, there is nothing like the umm help of a one and half year old. Unfortunately Megan lost interested and decided to go for a walk with her stroller without me. So I took a break and we spent half an hour walking up and down our little road.

It was twice as hard to get back into the swing of things after our little break but we managed. I had emptied half the contents of our garage on the driveway when my mother in law showed up. She offered to watch Meg for a few so I could work a little longer. So I continued on with my grand plan. The only problem was now I was starting to really feel how tired I was getting. I decided to soldier on. I can't tell you the number of time that I have half cleaned something run out of steam and it ends up being exactly the same as when I started. I did manage to get all the "stuff" that was on the garage floor picked up. We had enough recycle to fill the prius which was just a little incredible. I had $15 in pop bottle, I know I really need to kick that habit. Two garbage bags of well garbage. I didn't manage to get to 3 shelfs because I just plan ran out of time and energy. So the good news is 90% of my garage is clean the bad news is it wore me out for the whole rest of the week.

It's great having a mostly clean garage but I found I just couldn't tackle anything else this week. My super cleaning powers had meet there match in a garage and I needed a week to recover. Even my paperwork assignments got put to the side. I just couldn't find the energy.

This week my assignment is to again tackle the family binder and to tweak my schedule to better fit our family, including figuring regular days for pick up from school for the kids.