List making counts as a skill, right?

I love making lists. If you are ever at a loss for something to give me as a gift just get me one of those pretty little magnet note pads that you can stick on the fridge and some ball point pens(no gel ink, please). I love Christmas time for many reasons but making lists of things I want to get my kids is so much fun. So is making the Christmas card list. I sit down at my computer every day with a little piece of paper and a pen, carefully keeping a list of all the file numbers of the pictures I am editing so I can track my progress and watching the list grow is actually exciting. I enjoy Sunday nights when I walk around making a detailed list of all the things I will need to get at the grocery store on Monday morning. Pathetic much? Perhaps, but I am glad that I have little things in my life that make me happy even if "List making" is one of them. 

It's not at all uncommon on a day like today for me to sit down and write myself a to-do list. Do I check things off as I go? Not usually. Do I even keep track of the list once I have finished writing it...absolutely not. It's usually swiftly collected by a kid with a crayon at which point it turns into their last work of "art". I make it only because it's my favorite way of organizing my thoughts and priorities for the day. Today I woke up with a head all cluttered with goals that I had to meet. I had to burn disks and assemble a package for a client, and actually ship the package. I had to edit and post the pictures to my clients shutterfly album. I had to email some clients. I had to clean Max's cage. I had to call my mother-in-law. I needed to put away some laundry. I needed to wash our sheets. I needed to clean the boys room. I need to clean MY room. I needed to edit more for other clients and upload to their albums. And if I could possibly squeeze it in today, I needed to mop the hallway, the bathroom, the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room. Did I get it all done? Ha ha ha ha, whooo boy did I ever NOT get it all done. I got some of it accomplished, but I wasn't beating myself up over the rest of it.

I find it somewhat odd that when I am making a list, I leave off some of the most important things that I should be doing. And even more odd, those are the things that I am more likely to forget to do because I am so stressed out trying to do all of the things on my list. 

And honestly, you'd think with as many lists as I write, I'd have better handwriting by now...obviously practice doesn't necessarily make perfect.