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ahedderick · 1 year

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My mother used to write me chore lists when I was a kid, using a little spiral notepad like this one. I’ve gone through various iterations of list-making throughout my adult life, centering around the back-of-a-random-envelope motif. March of ‘22, though, when I was sitting in the hospital marking my father’s last days, I bought a full-sized notebook. I was making lists while I was sitting there; things I needed to do for his house, for my house, business/financial/cleaning/organizing. I used it to take notes when Drs or nurses were giving me advice.

After he passed away, the list-making kicked into a heretofore undiscovered high gear. I had categories of lists.

I’ve done a lot in the last 13 months, but having this large, less-losable notebook has been a real help. I can page back and see when I met with a finance person, look up the phone number for the ‘mystery lawyer’* who does not seem to exist in the phone book or on the web. I can look at the thiings I’ve already accomplished when I feel like I’m not getting ANYTHING done. I am. Just never as fast as I want.

Bless the Bigass Notebook. Long may it reign.

* He’s a nice guy and very helpful - but I don’t know how the HECK anyone contacts him if they haven’t already met him in person. He is a phantom.

#organize #making lists #momblr #adult adhd #living with adhd

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resentful-reads · 8 months

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Carry on By Rainbow Rowell

#resentful reads #carry on #simon snow trilogy #boom 1 #rainbow rowell #bookblr #book quotes #book excerpt #book photography #making lists #missing things #simon perspective

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deathspeaker · 2 years

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A more forgiving (and useful) way to use To-Do Lists

So I have both ADHD and autism. BAD. I struggle with time management as well as even perceiving time. So sometimes five minutes feels like an hour and an hour feels like five minutes and I can blink and suddenly the sun is fucking rising and I feel not even a hint of tiredness to indicate I stayed up all night.

The usual advice is ‘Keep a to-do list!’ but this created a different issue where I would make a to-do list and then not accomplish all of it then feel like a worthless sack of shit for only managing to do like... one thing on the list.

Then I started doing it a little differently. I made a list per day and would do as much as I could, then the next day make a new list but I would still keep track of the previous days so I could tackle each line without feeling guilty for missing something. I wouldn��t have to keep writing ‘Clean the fish tank’ every day until I got it done, I just had to consult the list and it oddly made it easier to do? I don’t know the psychology behind this but it felt less stressful. It became... forgiving.

I also try to divide up the ‘to-do’s’ in a way that they aren’t too big. I don’t just put ‘clean the kitchen’ because that could actually cover like 10 different tasks and many can’t be done out of order (I can’t load dirty dishes into the dish washer until the clean dishes are unloaded). So instead I start with what steps need to be done first, like the ‘unload clean dishes’. This step probably helps my autism a touch more than my ADHD. If you give me a single task that is actually made up of a dozen tasks it easily overwhelms me, makes it hard to manage and I tend not to accomplish half of it.

Due to my current issue (getting tested for an immune disorder, might have fibromyalgia but doctor wants to rule out Lupus first) I get exhausted quickly, lots of pain and muscle weakness. So I’ve added a timer to it. I set the timer, play video games/watch tv/read then when it goes off I pick something off the list, do that (and because they’re divided up into easy bites I don’t wear myself out) then go back to the ADHD rewarding thing my stupid brain craves while my body gets a chance to relax.

I’m using this timer trick not just for boring things that need to get done but to help me manage learning new skills, doing something fun but educational (Duolingo with Spanish!). Playing with my pets, doing some stretches, etc.

If this helps anyone I’ll be happy! I’m 40, getting more disabled it seems so I’ve picked up a few things. It also keeps me busy so I don’t fall into a worse depression spiral.

#time management #ADHD #autism #advice #managing expectations #making lists #to-do lists #I also made a cute note book that's just a to-do list that I can fill out #making it cute helps!#tips #lifehack #brain no work good

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commedesgarconsliketheboys · 1 year

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tidal when the pawn extraordinary machine the idler wheel fetch the bolt cutters

lush retired from sad new career in business bury me at makeout creek puberty 2 be the cowboy laurel hell

whatever people say i am thats what im not favourite worst nightmare humbug suck it and see am tranquility base hotel and casino the car

psychopomp soft sounds from another planet jubilee

Pretty Things Shark Smile Capacity Watering Coma Great White Shark Mythological Beauty Objects Haley Mary Black Diamonds

#making lists

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nicxxx5 · 2 years

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i love making lists idk why and i lowkey want to start making lists of my interests and sharing them but idk if people would care

#lists #making lists #interests #special interest #autistic #actually autistic #idk if thats why but probably is #neurdivergent #blog ideas #future post ideas #post ideas #future blog ideas #would anyone be interested?

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so-many-ocs · 5 months

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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

#🌿 misc #idk how to tag this #i just love making lists #and sorting things into categories #pinterest #??#this is part of what motivates me to write i just love making lists of scenes and then sorting them into categories #bangers

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spitblaze · 7 months

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considering how many transmascs were legitimately way angrier BEFORE starting T and have since calmed down significantly have we perhaps considered that maybe the reason so many cis dudes are angry and aggressive isn't because of testosterone but maybe. like. personal issues. unmet needs. a social climate that teaches them that there are only like three acceptable emotional outlets for men max and one of them is being angry and shouting

#spitblaze says things #source: i got angry SO easily before i started t #i had jokes about the list of things you could say to me that would make me rant and rave in a fury #i still have things that piss me off but im not like. to that degree #doin numbers

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 5 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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thymbyll · 2 months

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#making lists #listology #listographer #alphabetical #tumblr #alphabetizer #to do lists #microsoft word

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vizthedatum · 2 months

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Okay some goals for today:

Rest and keep checking in with myself after my bladder appointment.

Start preparing document for things to sell and give away, as part of early spring cleaning.

Find a place where my phone can be when I’m sleeping so I don’t look at my phone right when I wake up!! (A habit I’m trying to break.)

Finish work tasks in allotted chunks of time today.

Watch two movies because I deserve to relax!! I know I’ll be worn out.

Read (and if not read, listen) to books on my list today.

Take a magnesium salt bath.

#healing #neurodivergence #making lists #broad lists #goals

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lindaghill · 3 months

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JusJoJan24 the 22nd - It's the mood

This post is part of Just Jot it January, and today’s prompt comes to us from Dar. Check out her blog here! I get heartburn. Like, sometimes it goes on for days, then sometimes it just disappears. I’ve been watching what I eat for almost four years now—it started when the pandemic did—and trying to figure out if it’s something I’m consuming or how much or how little I’m consuming. For a while, I…

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#inspiration #JusJoJan24 #making lists #mental health #stress-related health issues #writing prompt

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natalaka-lalka · 3 months

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that one meme of patrick bateman bloody and exhausted and someone edited the text to say 'i need to make a list'

#making lists #natalka lalka

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inkskinned · 9 months

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you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

#warm up #this isn't good #writeblr #this is complicated by the fact i can't stand up too long or i fuckken pass out and <3 hit my damn head <3 #but i did take a deep breath and buy myself the stupid rice cooker #and!!! a very cheap sushi kit!!! i have been wanting to try making sushi for literally YEARS #the kit was only like 15 dollars!!!! and i haven't purchased it bc?!!??!?!?!?!!?#..... i didn't get the mixer tho that felt. like a lot. like too much.#on my list is a kitchenaid. one day when i get a check and i have paid off my student debt #and medical debt #i will put that first little bit of cash #into a kitchenaid 5qt stand mixer (with attachments)#i really do just go into their refurbished section and stare lustily at each option #but yeah i feel guilty about the rice cooker even tho i know for a fact this damn thing is gonna be a lifesaver #oh shit also fuck i forgot to mention . poached eggs

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heritageposts · 4 months

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large zionist blocklist below

i've compiled a list of all the blogs positively interacting with the @/israel-palestine-bingo blog

there's more info about how the names were complied under the read more, but just to get an idea of how vile the blog is, i just want to quickly mention that the first prize offered in their pinned post, "eight hours of memi mamtera," is the song used in the viral israeli tiktok trend of kidnapping, humiliating, and torturing palestinians in the west bank.

and the "grand prize," which needs no explanation, is "all of palestine! for free!"

some quick info: all the names here have either approvingly replied to, reblogged from, or liked one or more of @/israel-palestine-bingo's posts. for likes, i've only gathered names that appear under their original posts; mostly ones that have not been reblogged, and some with 2-3 reblogs that have not left the immediate sphere of zionists. i've also made sure that these are blogs who have either liked more than one posts from them, or who frequently reblogs from other zionists.

you can also quickly look through the blog yourself (it doesn't have that many posts), or check out any of the names on the list with a quick 'israel' or 'palestine' in the search bar or their blogs.

there are more screenshots at the end of the posts, including ones showing who made the blog (ani-lo-daredevil / katenotbishop), and the bingo board itself (ashenpumpkin).

blocking tip: fastest way to mass block users (on desktop) is to go to settings -> the blog your blocking them from -> scroll all the way down to 'blocked tumblrs,' and then copy-paste the name your blocking

names listed below in alphabetical order reminder again, block don't engage

2peachy acleverforgery ani-lo-daredevil apollo-enthusiast ashenpumpkin <- credited for making the bingo board, reblogged/liked almost all of their posts. aureatecorvid avi-on-jumblr (main @/clear-what-i-was-seeing) awstheticshit bambahalva bleepiesheepie bluenorther blueredfetch bones-and-crows britneysmeanshirt cannibalism-is-my-love-language captain-navii casavanse celepito chubbybubba ciitrus--fruitz coffeelovinggayidiot da-socks davos-is-the-one-true-king dchan87 disregardenedgnostic elder-millennial-of-zion faggotry-enjoyer fdelopera flowercrownsandfairylights fluffel677 fluffy-art-moss george-lucas-is-god got-chavi icereader12 illegitimatetenenbaum inklingm8 its-hila jewishlivesmatter just-illegal karinhasdacookie

katenotbishop <- the main account of the person running the blog. her sideblog is @/ani-lo-daredevil

kelluinox kingofslush letaot-ze-magniv lingonberryjamistakenwhat lovelyhairedpianist magic-coffee marrymepadfoot marvel-ous-posts masters-puddle <- pornblog mixmangosmangoverse morganas-simp mossadspydolphin multifandermissesanakin nameless370 namiko026 nevleg32 notcrazyiswear oakstar519 perfectlynormalperson psychologeek queerius randomname3 redvodyanoi rhysaka sally006 sbinklebooper scp-1296 shinekocreator <- commented, 'but is this the 8 hour version?' on a post where someone ''won'' the song used in the tiktok torture videos. snakelung sort-of-a-demon soxiyy stuffandatherstuff tearsandice tedious-waffle thebejeweledwatercat the-library-alcove thirdmagic thisgingerhasnosoul timegirl tolaat-bli-toelet <- the person running the bingo blog. mainblog is @/katenotbishop transmascpetewentz tribulation-of-somnolence unexistencerpg viktorrotkiv wanderingmadscientist whiterose-blackrose whitesunlars why5x5