My New To Do.
Rule: The Trazzle Sniper Stratagy.
No more "David v Goliath Army" aka Me, Amuchina and Microfibre as the superior technology to Kill the Beast. I am in sniper mode, picking them off one foot soldier at a time. (future rule, stop regarding house and its contents as the enermy that needs to be brutally murdered into submission, become normal person who sees housework as housework not wargames and battle to the death) 
1- Do a Kitchen Cupboard
2- Stop stressing over La Credenza Transformation. Take one shelf to Brico, buy the wood for new shelves, and new blade for jigsaw to create the curve.
3- Go to the spare bedroom. Face the Really Scary Hoard Seed. Choose one file from DS's former homeschool "evidence of work done will you please leave us alone for five minutes", do not throw it away as a knee jerk measure run upstair and frantically start binningnthe lot. Sit down. Flick through, choose five pieces that are just brilliant, or funny becuase of the epic spelling mistakes, or show where it started to highlight progress better, or just cos it evokes a nice memory of homeschool when I didn't want to strangle him with my bare hands becuase he was in mule mode. Take five peice, file in small folder already set aside for that purpose.
4- Stronghold last two members of zoo due for Strongholding.
5- Drill holes in old IKEA IVAR deep drawer on wheels. Ask DS to dig up earth. Make Earth box for the world's most escapy rabbit so he can dig without making it into a POW fantasy. Add lots of lettus and dandelion seed to earth to provide tender nibbles, if anything survives the mad digging.
6- Collect up schoolbook from living room. Accept will never find anybody in Italy that will want British textbooks. Throw away. Order next year's.
7- Sit down and properly go through the minimum requirements of "happy birthday DS" desktop computer being bought for Minecraft purposes. Research how to partition hard drive so he can log on to school without my presence, but does need me to password him in for the Minecraft partition
8- Stop.
9- Don't stop. Send email to Director of Italian School with formal notification that we are still going to hide under the umbrella of homeschooling next year too, so fuck off! But don't actually say fuck off! Get DH tomproof read for creative Italian and implied fuck offs before sending.
10- Now stop.
11- No, don't stop. Assemble ingrediants for tragic cake date. Try not to procrastinate abput how much do not want to go on tragic cake date. Becuase will like it once there. And Italy needs to discover Parkin, so they get over their food superiority complex a bit.
12- Now stop. Possibly. No do stop or it's all David and Goliath again and you'll fall over and feel all Cinderalla and defeatist cos everything will hurt tomorow and you won't want to do anything, then you'll feel like a failure, then go slightly bonkers in reaction to that and take it out on the innocent xams tree who isn't falling off the shelf on purpose.
13 - No don't stop. Go to Mood Gym. Become normal person.