Do What You Want to Have Done

Maybe it's true as Madonna once sang that girls just want to have fun.
But I say, "Don't do what you want to do.  Do what you want to have done."

I wrote those lines in my head on my way back from the Richmond Y, where I went this morning because the Stonestown Y has closed for renovation for two weeks.

Exercise is a really good example of what I'm talking about.  I don't want to do it, but I want to have done it.  I'm glad I've done it once I've finished.

There are so many things I enjoy doing at the moment, but exercise isn't one, and anything having to do with finances isn't either.

So here's a list of things I want to have done by the end of the day--some of which I actually want to do and some that I just want to have done:

Writing this blog (Want to!  I want to  put writing above everything else except picking up for people I love.  An example of this is my call from Eileen Gertz yesterday.  More on that another time.)

Straightening up according to my very low standard, which means making the bed and doing the dishes and moving piles of clutter to the next best spot.

Transferring the notes I took with Javier yesterday and creating a Spanish translation for some of the dialogue on the first two pages of  You Don't Say, the SuperBowl version of what now takes place on Oscar Night, And the Winner Is...

Getting Melissa Riley, the librarian at the West Portal Libray, on Next Door.com

Getting off the part of NextDoor.com that sends out warnings about suspicious people.

Adding the photo of the Dec. 1 car driving itself south in a north-bound lane on 19th Avenue and changing the subject.

Reading more about Mercury, the play given a Rough Reading at Custom-Made Theatre today at 2:00 PM.

Test out a vegan version of the Spanish potato omelet I've always loved.

Get  Han Kang's The Vegetarian plus the CCSF Enrollment Material I accidentally left at the West Portal Library

Going to the reading of Mercury at the Custom-Made Theatre at 2:00 PM.