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What I Should Have Done Today

in Everyday on 06/05/09


What I Should be Doing….cleaning up my house. Mother in Law is babysitting tonight and the house must be beyond regular babysitter clean, it must be Mother in Law clean.
What I’m Doing Instead….shopping for a new pair of jeans that does not make me look like I am wearing a diaper under my pants. Severe case of baggy pants going on here.

What I Should Be Doing….having a salad for lunch. Light on the calories, easy on the hips.
What I’m Doing Instead…Oh Help Me…. I’m munchin away on the dreaded yogurt covered pretzels again!!

What I Should be Doing…..ironing. Again.
What I’m Doing Instead….throwing those shirts back into the dryer and forcing those wrinkles out with the gift of heat!

What I Should Be Doing….hitting the treadmill.
What I’m Doing Instead….hitting the couch.

What I Should be Doing….reading the paper so I know what is going on in the world.
What I am Doing Instead….reading blogs! I can’t stop!

What I Should be Doing….grocery shopping for dinner.
What I’m Doing Instead….thinking it would be a lot easier to order in a pizza.

Life is Short….going to stop kicking myself for what I should be doing!

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    Comments

    1. Carrie says

      June 5, 2009 at 9:43 pm

      Oh, thanks for making me feel much better about what I should be doing…! LOL! Thanks for stopping by and your sweet comments…Mam! {hee hee, I read the previous post too!}

      Have a great weekend…no matter what you are doing! 🙂

    2. Rebel Mother says

      June 5, 2009 at 8:10 pm

      Ha! Gave me a tickle! As you say life is short and it is much better to do ‘Doing Instead’, than ‘Should be Doing’!

      Enjoy!

      PS Have to agree with Eliza – Mother-in-law clean????#

    3. Busy Bee Suz says

      June 5, 2009 at 7:57 pm

      Too funny. It is nice to know that you are just like the rest of us!!!!
      I should be doing a lot of things…but I ain’t!!! (that is the southern in me)

    4. Kristin says

      June 5, 2009 at 7:48 pm

      What I should be doing would fill up a banker’s box, instead I’m blogging.

    5. Eliza says

      June 5, 2009 at 7:17 pm

      Mother in law clean – EEK thats scary 🙂

    6. Kimberly says

      June 5, 2009 at 7:11 pm

      I share many of those same should be’s. I wish there were 35 hours in a day to get the should be’s and the I am doing done all in the same day.

      Have a great weekend!

    7. Stacie's Madness says

      June 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm

      I should be working. 😉

      it took me four times clicking on your blog for it to work…grrr.

    8. Kelloggsville says

      June 5, 2009 at 6:00 pm

      Mirror on my life!

      great post x

    9. Martha says

      June 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm

      Please pass the yogurt pretzels and wait for the dryer to do its’ job. Happy Friday, great post.

    10. Jazzy Cazy says

      June 5, 2009 at 3:56 pm

      “Ahh Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”

      “Stop should’ing all over yourself” sista!

      Some great “shoulda” quotes from Sex and the City – my mantra to life!!

      Can I add one?

      What I Should Be Doing….working on my own business blog
      What I’m Doing Instead….commenting on other people’s blogs!

      Have a fab Friday!

      xjcx

    11. Rachel says

      June 5, 2009 at 3:41 pm

      I’ve got a mother-in-law-coming-over-so-house-must-be-cleaned-today situation here, too. So, what am I doing? Reading blogs, of course! 🙂

    12. Missty says

      June 5, 2009 at 3:41 pm

      Oh I am so right there with you! I should be doing a TON of things, and here I sit! Ugh!! LOL

      But your last line is the BEST! Your right life is short! So enjoy, right!

      Happy weekend! Hope its a good one!

      And funny on the mam thing. It bugs me when I get mam’ed. lol

    13. Loukia says

      June 5, 2009 at 3:05 pm

      Hello, you have stolen my identity and I’d like it back now, please! 😉 Seriously, wow, like could we be twins? Because that sounds like ME! Haha! LOVED IT! (Wait – except for the baggy pants syndrome. I don’t have that, unfortunantly. I have too tight on my ass syndrome right now!)

    14. Randi Troxell says

      June 5, 2009 at 3:03 pm

      love that last line and …. what you should be doing is what you ARE doing! plenty enough time to diet, cook, clean – all that later!! have a great friday!!

    15. Margo says

      June 5, 2009 at 3:00 pm

      AMEN. Who came up with this should business anyway? “Says who?” is what I want to say back many days. Instead of saying “I should”, say, “I choose”. That’s what my life coach tells me. I’m working on it 🙂

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