[Meme] The struggle is real, especially when The Focus hits on new creative work
[Meme] The struggle is real, especially when The Focus hits on new creative work
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Depicted in the image is Sisyphus pushing his legendary boulder up a hill, written in the boulder are the words, "The fucking dishes and the fucking laundry."
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Straight up though I recently learned a really weird way of editing pictures for creative distortion (it involves Audacity (the sound editor)) and I straight up forgot to do both before work.
Yesterday and today.
Good news is I learned a lot on how editing those pictures works. Bad news is tonight's dinner was cereal eaten out of a mug with a fork.
The biggest thing that helped me: do the chore when you see it. Stop everything and do it now. Not "later" cuz later never comes. Now, because now is all you have
But then the task you stop becomes something that you forget about
uuuh ya :p
When my wife asks me to grab her something, she always says, "You don't have to do it right now."
Yes I do, or it's never getting done
Ok, so what do you do when you notice chores while in the middle of other chores?
Yep. Like folding the laundry as soon as you take them out of the dryer is a habit that has really helped with the problem of having wrinkled laundry laying about in the hamper all week.
You eventually get into the habit of doing "micro chores" as you're just moving about the house
Now, increase the size of the boulder, increase the slope of the hill, and decrease the dudes muscles/strength, and this will be an exact representation :(
I watch something on YouTube while doing them. Putting the dishes away essentially takes place of my fidgeting.
So my tips for doing these chores:
Always have your Bluetooth headphones on and a podcast to listen to while doing chores.
Smells make chores like this better. Make sure you have those nice smell sprinkle tablet things you put in your washing machine - it's nice to take clothes out and then fold them when they smell good.
Get some decent washing up liquid that you love to smell. Consider having a couple of different scents to switch it up
Would maybe a dishwasher help out in situations like that?
I have a really hard time focusing if the floors are dirty, and I happen to have a husky. When he sheds the floors are permanently dirty. A robot vacuum really helped that though, so now the floors are a non-issue.
I guess the important thing is to strike a good balance. My old robot vacuum required maintenance pretty much after every run, I recently upgraded and this one requires me to fill a water tank twice a week, and some light maintenance once every two weeks. It’s a lot more useful and lets me put my focus on other things.
Well, we have a dishwasher and I guess it maybe helps a little? The plates still stack, though it is a bit easier to convince yourself to just put them in the dishwasher real quick, takes less than 10 minutes, than washing them by hand.
Yeah that's how I see it too. Then there's a risk of the clean dishes living in the dishwasher for a bit but at least I have dishes, and it doesn't feel as daunting to deal with. It's like with the floors, pulling out a massive vacuum and dealing with the mop and whatnot is much more daunting than dealing with the dock every so often. Sure it doesn't outright replace proper vacuuming or dusting, you still need to do that, but it helps a lot.
Sure until there is a clean load in the washer and you can't put them back but you can clean the dirty ones until you do.
And I'm done cases the kitchen is to dirty to put the clean dishes back so you have to just hope for a dish fairy to do it so you can get unblocked.
No, because you have to remember to run and unload it. Then the dishes pile up while you wait to unload it.
What kind of vacuum did you upgrade to, if I may ask? I am in need of a good robot servant.
Absolutely. I went from a Roborock S4 to a Roborock S4 Pro Ultra.
I was super satisfied with the S4 already, it’s a few years old by now, but was performing really well. The only problem being the frequent maintenance due to the dog. If I didn’t have pets it probably would’ve been better.
Roborock has solid vacuums, and sells replacement parts so you can repair them should something break. I ran my S4 almost daily for 4 years though and nothing ever did.
The Roborocks all map out the house with LiDAR, and cleans intelligently, even the cheapest ones, unlike some other brands (like Roomba) that just ping-pong about randomly.
The mopping feature is also shockingly effective.
The dock is the big star though. It handles cleaning and drying the mop, emptying the dustbin in the robot, and emptying/refilling the mop water.
My maintenance basically consists of emptying and rinsing out the dirty water, usually once or twice a week. Along that I refill the clean water. I have it mop a lot because I’m pedantic.
Every two weeks I also clean out the water filter, and flip the robot to remove what few hairs have stuck in the brushes.
Every two months I also empty the dust bag.
None of the maintenance tasks alone take more than a couple of minutes. It’s such a small price to pay for clean floors.
Haha! That's happened to me quite often. I'm busy building a Docker container management app and have a sink full of dishes...
Let's just say I'm on a bit of a side quest currently while avoiding my server
It needs it's data properly consolidated so that I no longer have mismatched data pools before I can go about fixing the Docker containers.
Right now the best description of what my Docker setup looks like is 2 cargo ships crashed into each other but still somehow floating.
It's probably a 2 day journey to fix it.
The good news is day one is just data migration (can only copy at gigabit speeds‡), the bad news is day two is everything else. ★
‡ I can only copy at gigabit speeds due to a lack of sata ports (poor planning) and the fastest data interface on the machine being Ethernet (really old machine and poor planning)
★ This is all of course part of a larger plan to completely rebuild it as a new system by the end of the year.
I really need to do my laundry... 😮💨
Dishes ain't a problem for me when I have a working dishwasher.
at least laundry machines you can just dump your shit into and press go, dishwashers need careful loading and unloading which is hell
What!? Laundry is way worse than dishwashers. It's a 3-4 hour time commitment that needs to be repeated if you don't complete it in ~8 hours.
- You can forget about dishes for a day and they will still be clean the next.
- If you forget clothes in the washing machine for a day, they need to be washed again because they smell bad.
- If they are kept in the dryer too long they need to be run through another cycle because of wrinkles.
- You then need to fold them them and put them away.
I would gladly never do laundry again and only use the dishwasher for the rest of my life.
LPT, don't run your clothes through a full cycle to dewrinkle.
Throw in a wet rag and put it on low for ~30m. This will also soften hang dried clothes and remove pet hair.
Hm, i don't see it as a time commitment because i don't spend that much time away from home anyways and thus the only time spent on it is putting it in and taking it out along with setting an alarm so i remember to move it to the drier and then take it out, i also don't care about wrinkles in clothes because i'm not a victorian noble.
As for folding, again we're not victorian nobles so just roll shit up and stuff it in the drawer, it's fine.
True. But on the other hand, at least when you forget about a load of dishes, you still have clean dishes. Forget about a load of laundry and you're right back to where you started.
I wish I'd focus on my creative projects...
I guess the medication worked after all, I wasn't so convinced at first. But now that I don't have it anymore, I definitely feel the difference.
The medicine gives you a normal amount of focus, which isn't magical or anything. That is why you don't notice it until you don't have it.
Like water or food, you don't know what you are missing until you have enough and then don't.