Does anyone else feel totally unmotivated to 'get things done?'

[Mere]

By 'things' I mean putting your pictures in the photo album (or printing them for that matter), fixing that cabinet door that has been broken for forever but is still functional, or changing the two (out of 3) burnt out lightbulbs over your bathroom mirror mirror. Or raking leaves. Or weeding the garden. Or vaccuuming out the car. Dh and I manage to get all the absolute essentials done, like basic cleaning, laundry, and paying bills, but anything that's not essential gets assigned a low priority (which means it doesn't get done for forever).

At the beginning of September I made a list of all the things I wanted to get done, and I still have only done one or two things. I'm starting to feel like real slacker, especially when I've got friends with similar aged kids who are out installing sprinkler systems or repainting their kids' rooms. I don't think my kids are that much more demanding than any other kids their age, but still, whenever I have free time (when ds naps or after bedtime) all I want to do is sit down with a good book. I know it's just the young age of my children, but still, we are thinking of having one more - maybe that's just craziness.

Thanks for listening to my rant .

[johub]

That's us too.
I just chalk it up to our temperaments. We'd rather spend our downtime readign a good book (or in dh's case, playing ps2) than doing anything that isnt an absolute must.
So everything , and I mean everything that isnt on the "urgent" list, simply never makes it high enough on the to-do list to get done.
Joline

[shanagirl]

Me three. I just had dinner with a friend where we talked about this at length. I'd rather go to dinner with a friend than do any housework, so I have a really messy living room right now. My house is never all clean, all at once, there is always laundry to be done, there are always dishes. I gave up on my garden in recent years. That's for another time when I don't have a young child. I work part time so in my spare time, my priorities are:
1. fun and love with family and friends
2. reading/music
3. writing

Housework, projects, are done when necessary. DH is better about this than me. So sometimes I feel guilty. Yes I would love my pictures organized in photo albums but I know it ain't gonna happen in the next few years.

[oldcrunchymom]

Well, personally I hate gardening/yard work. It is not calming or fulfulling to me. It is buggy, weedy, dirty, sweaty WORK. I raked all the leaves into a huge pile a few weeks ago and there they sit, now covered with snow.

OTOH, I don't mind housework except for the dishes (which much like the leaves are sitting in a pile right now). So the house is usually relatively clean and it does make me feel better to clean it. I actually like rearranging furniture and decluttering and stuff like that, too. It's fun to me.

Photos and other projects... forget it. The photos from when the kids were babies are still sitting in photo boxes (but at least they're in dated ziplocks--ha!). There are abandoned projects hidden away all over the place. I'd rather watch a movie or read a book. :