From Bathrooms to Bushes, or, How To Poing: My Continual Battle with Tangents

I started out my day--around 6 am today--cleaning my bathroom. It was sorely in need of good scrubdown, and I was getting into it. Witness:
I don't often, but when I do, I get nuts about it. The toothbrush was to encourage the CLR to do its work around the faucet and the nasty little drain holes, as well as around the back of the sink. We have really*REALLY* hard water out here, and the gunk it leaves is amazing.

I digress. It's what I do, evidently.

It's 9:43a.m. right now, and the bathroom still looks exactly like that. I do, however, have another photo to show you:
This is the massive trimmings from the honeysuckle bush between us and the neighbours' drive. It hasn't been sitting there for days. Oh no! I just trimmed, pulled, and broke it off that massive, nasty bush.

How, you might ask, did I go from scrubbing down the bathroom, to wildly hacking at a honeysuckle bush? The steps aren't few, but they're relatively easy to follow:

1. Scrubbing down the bathroom, including the use of CLR, which has to sit for a bit on whatever it is you're hoping it will de-calcify.

2. Take a "break" to allow CLR to do its work.

3. Wash hands at kitchen sink and decide that I should finish the dishes so I can run the dishwasher before 9am (energy saving thing here in the desert).

4. Washing dishes generally means also clearing away whatever paper towels and other bits of trash that might by laying about.

5. While throwing the trash away, recall that it's Monday, and trash day--better take the big bin to the curb.

6. Get into the back yard with the trash, note that there is still a fair amount of space left in the bin, and toss in a few errant branches and pick a few more weeds.

7. Haul the now mostly full bin to the curb, walking by the weeping honeysuckle bush.

8. Note to self that those branches that are sticking out really need to be trimmed. The bin still has room, and it would only take a moment.

9. Oh look! Weeds by the driveway out front as well! Spend a few minutes pulling weeds in the front yard--toss them in the increasingly full bin.

10. Walk *back* by the honeysuckle bush and recall that the branches need trimming.

11. Jog to the back yard for the loppers--too much for the job, but they are handy.

12. Proceed to lop off the offending branches and think to self..."Hm, those dead branches really need clearing out. Might as well do it while I'm here."

13. With each dead branch pulled out, 6 more reveal themselves as candidates for extraction.

14. Periodically jam a handful of branches in the brimming trash bin and think "I really should stop now..."

15. Keep hacking away

16. Realise that the pile of brush I've created is now going to fill the bin full *again* after the men have come to empty it today.

17. Use that, as well as the fact that the sun is starting to get in my eyes, as an excuse to wrap it up. For now.

After all, I've got a bathroom to clean...