{"id":2605,"date":"2011-06-13T22:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2013-06-13T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T02:06:08","slug":"put-it-on-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/put-it-on-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Put It on the List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I was complaining on Facebook that I was uninspired by my prospects for the day:<\/p>\n<p><em>Of all the things on my to-do list today, let&#8217;s see&#8230;yep, I want to do not a damn one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"id_4de43125820038738943006\">&#8230;at which point, friend Deborah listed the various and sundry things she and her wife had already accomplished that morning.<\/p>\n<p>I felt compelled to respond that I hadn&#8217;t been sitting on my ass:<\/p>\n<p><em>I cooked breakfast (eggs, sweet potato home fries, and garlic scapes), <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2563\">walked Redford 2 miles to the gym<\/a>, did planks and ring dips and squat cleans, walked Redford 2 miles back from the gym, and tried to start my <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2440\">new mower<\/a>. Stupid fucking thing! I&#8217;ma put my foot through somebody&#8217;s ribcage! I hate gas mowers! Now I&#8217;m going to Home Depot to buy some <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2566\">engine starting fluid<\/a>. And some mulch. That means I&#8217;ll have to mulch. Dammit. In addition, there&#8217;s grocery shopping, paying bills, and doing laundry on the list. Who can&#8217;t my to-do list include eating ice cream and having sex?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Deborah, wise woman that she is, recommended putting those last two on the list and seeing what happened.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2606\" title=\"Photo 7\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-7-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So I did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of the two, I managed only one.<\/p>\n<p>But 50% success rate is not bad! If I can do half of whatever&#8217;s on my list, maybe I just need to make a better list!<\/p>\n<p>What should I put on my to-do list for tomorrow, Avid Bruxistists?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I was complaining on Facebook that I was uninspired by my prospects for the day: Of all the things on my to-do list today, let&#8217;s see&#8230;yep, I want to do not a damn one of them. &#8230;at which point, friend Deborah listed the various and sundry things she and her wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/put-it-on-the-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Put It on the List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cookin","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","category-random","category-the-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}