Life is like a day planner...

...everything is "penciled-in." Or penned, highlighted, doodled or sketched. (At least that is what my planner looks like). I have just been feeling rather "planned." I mean, I write almost everything down. I think people could quote me as saying, "Let me write that down so that I don't forget." I have a to-do list and a to-do list for my to-do list at times! It gets to be insane! I mean, I have come to terms with the fact that I have inherited the "antsy gene" from my father and his side of the family, ok, I get it. I have a hard time sitting still and doing nothing unless everything that I can think of, or that is on my "list" has been accomplished and is put away. Out of sight, out of mind eh? (wow, if I keep up at this rate, I will have all of the cliche sayings in this one entry!)

But the things that I write down aren't always:

A. The most important
B. Things that make me happy
C. Things I need to do right away (I tend to think about things sometimes too far into the future when planning)

I sometimes wish that I could break this cycle, but for work it is EXTREMELY necessary as there are many "drive-by" conversations where someone will ask/tell me to do something and I have another person come by 5 seconds later and ask me to do another thing. I would go bonkers if I had to remember all of the stuff that they tell/ask me to do! Yikes!

Even as I am writing this blog, I stop to think about what I want to accomplish this weekend while I have the house to myself for tonight and tomorrow. (Derick is in Medford celebrating his Grandma's birthday! I could not go because the party was earlier this afternoon, and I could not leave work as we have a floorset first thing Monday morning that I had to stay late to prep for anyway.)

So it is just me and the puppy tonight. I think he is bored with me. Since I got home later than normal, he has wanted to play whereas I have wanted to eat, change into comfy clothes and catch up on my Project Runway from last night.

Well, I guess that is all for tonight. I will try to resist the list. We'll see how I do :) I might have to break open one of the books on my nightstand that keep piling up. (I think I have 5 now that I want to get to reading!)

-L