It is funny how a small thing like a lost bus card can set up a chain of events that pushes everything back and makes them more difficult

I keep trying to explain this to J and Youngest when they keep wanting me to do stuff and are miffed when I don't want to because "it should only take a couple ofd minutes" and they can't seem to connect the dots when they're asked to do something that won't take long when time stressed.

the pile gets larger and eats into the opportunity to do the more enjoyable tasks

I sincerely hope you are at least able to get on top of your task lists! I feel like even if I have super productive days and get a lot done it doesn't even make a noticeable scratch in mine ;-; so I tend to just take time out every now and again (and just try to do it to mitigate the inevitable exponential increase in undone tasks) because if I did everything I was supposed to do before doing fun stuff I would probably literally never ever do fun stuff til several decades after dying.

Hope there wasn't too much drama replacing the bus card?