atleast once a month i will do something that will make matt shake his head and say "i don't know about you". the last time he did it was only a few days ago but i can't for the life of me remember what i did to make him say it that time. he usually follows that with saying something like he's never met anyone like me before and somehow he says it with a sincerity that overrides the cliche. i don't actually try to get under his skin like that, it just sort of happens and actually i think he likes it. well, it's more like he admits he likes it. i guess he's a weirdo too.
he was looking at my to do list the other day, titled the "should do today list". i wouldn't want to put too much pressure on one day to get too much done. but he said it was a breakthrough of honesty. but he also commented that putting 1/2 or 1/3 next to each completed item is cheating. i call it "mapping progress". there are some things you can't really do half of. like you can't half clean the cat box (unless someone really funny like holly calls you when you're only half done the cat box thing) but a cat box is either clean or not clean. there is no 1/3 completion of a cat box. but you can vacuum 1/3 of your house. i have three rooms, i vacuumed one. 1/3. i have two trash cans. i emptied one. take out trash 1/2. now probably it takes more effort to write 1/2 next to the trash line than it would to take out the bathroom trash, but nobody's perfect. he's the kind of matt that doesn't need lists. everything he needs to do gets done right then because he is not a lazy bitch with a blackbelt in procrastination. he's a mature and upstanding young person who doesn't wait to take out the trash or to do the dishes or for the cat to eat those pieces of kibble that fall out of her bowl instead of picking them up. not that i would ever do that either. hmmm. so i guess he doesn't need to map his progress. his progress is ongoing and unmapable. responsible bastard.