May 20: Scatterbrained

 

Do you ever have those times when you are just scattered brain?  I forgot to pay the electric bill.  In all the years we have been here that is only the second time it's been late.  I caught it within the grace period, took it in and paid the late fee (just $6) but still...I forgot it, completely forgot it.

I've been sitting here trying to remember if I've paid another bill, one that is due in five days.  I'd swear I mailed it out but then again, I can't swear that I did.  If I did mail it, it was barely within the ten days allotted to get it there.  I can't find a notation anywhere in the checkbook saying I paid it. 

I'm positive I printed out the bill because this particular company does online billing and they send you through all the loops, hoops and gymnastics to even get into your account each month.  No need to save your password and login information because by the time the next bill is due, they make you start all over again.  So yes, I do recall printing out the bill.  And I can't find it anywhere amongst my papers, but then again...No notation that I wrote a check, either.  Did I pay it?  Did I not?  Darned if I know.

Disgusted with myself, I've already sat down with the June calendar and noted due dates for all of the bills we typically pay in a month.  As I mail them off in the weeks ahead, I mean to write on that due date in June exactly what day each check was mailed out.  That should eliminate any further confusion...or missed payments!

I slept incredibly well last night.  In fact, I took a nice nap prior to going to bed last night and then slept like a rock all through the night.  I woke feeling quite well this morning which was a blessing because Isaac and Millie were here at an early hour.  Sam dropped them here complete with plates filled with breakfast and left to return to Butler where he'd been less than a half hour before.  Josh's program at school was scheduled earlier than Sam had thought it was.

He came in to pick up the kids and took Millie straight to the doctor.  Katie had apparently been in touch warning him that Bella had ended up sick and at the doctor's and she was contagious. Millie and Bella played together Saturday.  Sam felt he would be on the safe side to take Millie on to the doctor and that ended being a blessing too, because while they couldn't say she had the same thing Bella has (cultures were taken and sent off), she did have double ear infections, so it was caught before she was in fever and pain and she's on antibiotics.  If she were getting what Bella has it's being nipped in the bud already.  

After the kids left around noon today, I felt restless.  It was too early to start lunch.  Too hot to work outdoors.  I settled for clearing out my upper dresser drawer.  I sorted and organized half of it yesterday when I was putting away underthings.  Today I sorted out the half of the drawer that has all my costume jewelry.  I decided to part with some pieces I'd bought but have never worn.  I went through the earrings and decided some of those could go as well since I seldom wear anything except hoops and my lovely little diamonds and the pretty pearl earrings that John has gifted over the years.  

When that job was done, I made lunch.  I got right up after lunch and tackled more jobs.  I neatened the bookcases in the living room, sorted out under the sink cabinet, cleaned the sink window, cleaned out the drawer in the buffet that holds the children's puzzles and coloring things, sorted out two or three other things.  It was a very putter-y day but satisfying, too, because things really got done not just noticed and put on the back burner to await another day.  I'm satisfied that I accomplished something.  It wasn't one of the big tasks that needed doing, but these little ones needed to be done, too.

I finished the evening off making a sheet pan dinner for supper.  I haven't planned meals yet and here we are at Tuesday.  It does seem I am not keeping to my much-needed routines and I'm being entirely random.  No doubt that is what led to the bill mess-ups as well.  Time to be mindful once more of routines and schedules.

I do wonder though, why it is that habits take 21 days to make but only a day or two to break and lose?  It seems unfair somehow, doesn't it?  

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