I make a lot of lists. I make lists of things I need to buy. Things I need to make. Places I need to be. Movies I want to see; others I want to buy. Events I need to go to. And things I need to do. Yep, I make a lot of To Do Lists. I also have slight OCD; enough so that I hate having things crossed off my list because it makes it "messy." I'd rather rewrite the entire list and re-organize things. It's frustrating because my OCD makes me feel like I *HAVE* to rewrite the list, but the good thing is I tend to remember everything I need to do. The more often I write my lists, the more likely I am to remember even the most minute "to do."
The thing about making lists, well they are almost like the Lernaean Hydra from Hercules. Every time you knock one out, cross one off, etc; you end up adding like eight or nine more. It's a never ending cycle! Doesn't it make you want to pull your hair out? You sit there and think you're making progress when all of a sudden WHAM! You have an almost entirely new list of things to do. Urgh so frustrating.
The question then becomes: Do you knock out the little things on your list? Do you take care of nearly 75% of the list just by doing the simple things? That's a real sense of accomplishment, I know. Suddenly you go from having 10 things to maybe 3. Wow, feels good right? And it didn't take that long either. Oh but then there's the downfall. The fact is those 3 things you have left are large projects. So large, in fact, that completing even one of them would take the same amount of time as completing the seven others put together. So then what?
So I ask the question again: Which do you do first? Me, I like to get the small ones out of the way. I like knowing I actually accomplished something. So even if I end up having a ton of work still left to do, I feel good. I think that's a big part of the lists. Every time something is added, you feel like you've sort of failed because you're that much farther away from your goal again.
My To Do list this weekend? (In NO particular order): Edit video I shot at my aunt's wedding to make her a DVD; take pictures of the books I've read to update the ones on my hubs; reorganize my DVDs with the new ones I've bought recently; make a baby basket for a friend's baby shower with handmade gifts (blanket, personalized chalkboard, and baby hair project); make more personalized chalkboards for some of my god-babies; transfer my recipes from my computer to a recipe book and organize it; laundry; and do my scrapbook for 2011.
What have I gotten done? Edited the footage and made 10 copies, plus put it on youtube; reogranized my DVDs; made the baby basket with the blanket and the baby hair tie project, 4 chalkboards, and another baby project; laundry; finishing up the photos for HubPages; and now actively working on the recipe book now.
So I've done almost everything (or at least started almost everything). Except the scrapbook. And that I think I'll wait on working on. It's something I set aside and look forward to working on every weekend but never seem to get around to working on. And that's okay because that scrapbook is way too important to just throw together just so I can say it's off my list.
And I'm totally okay with that.
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