I actually made a 42-item home improvement to-do list a few weeks ago. So far I've done #19 and part of #20.

That's what I've been doing in the intervening months...and I hate it. I'm a pretty obsessive time-checker and pulling my phone out of my pocket all day gets tiresome.

3) Get 2nd half of Paris trip and Coachella photos online.

I have about 40 legal-page long "to-do" lists...I've been saving them forever. It's fun to look back at the early stuff that got accidentally done or dropped off due to some cosmic expiration date. My current lists all look like fires that need putting out. It's 10:40 and I just sent an emergency fax to Ireland...that should give you some clue. But I wouldn't want it any other way...I'm the kid who wrote 12-page term papers (complete with fake "rough drafts") at 5 am the day they were due in HS... I LIVE for ze pressure. Oh. yah. :rolleyes:



Oh, and watches? Disposable things. Wear until battery dies. Keep (maybe because it's a Yoda watch) or toss. Replace. Repeat. :) Keeps that kinda stuff offa lists. Makes room for Storage Unit issues! LOL...

It wasn't just me?! I edit as I write, and none of my classes were worth really editing for, so I had to fake the drafts. Did you ever have to fake the "pre-writing"? I do NOT think in cloud maps!

For me, watches are the only form of jewelry I wear. If it was simply a matter of practicality I would have long ago switched to a digital monstrosity rather than the sleek simple things I prefer. For me the ideal watch is thin, has two simple hands and absolutely nothing else on its face. No second hand, no date, no numbers to help you read the time. Just two hands flowing in eternal circles. I'm an obsessive time checker as well, but knowing the time to within a couple minutes is good enough for me. Watches are for the pretty, and they have just enough practical value for me to accept them anyway.

I've actually been pretty good about getting to my to-do stuff the last few weeks. But after a few months of ignoring it it was pretty long. I do need to buy curtains for the living room. And I should get around to hanging the art that has been sitting on the floor in the bedroom since we moved in a 15 months ago.

I just turned in the final drafts and essentially told them to go screw themselves (though more politely) on the make-work pre-writing stuff. Still managed to get through high school (I also never turned in more than a half-dozen homework assignments in four years and rarely read books before writing papers about them; parents, don't let me near your kids with advice on how to get through school).

Oh, I always faked the rough drafts and brainstorming crap. No way my brain worked liked that. My best writing was always after midnight on the final night.

The truly sad thing is - even now they're teaching cloud mapping in school. To me! As in, take this mandatory workshop on brainstorming and show us your work. And as a requirement for participation in various groups I've now had to take that workshop TWICE! Sometimes I honestly feel like shouting at them: Do I look like I'm having a problem with my writing?!!? I'm an adult. I know what works for me. Cloud maps and timed "free writes" do not work. Doing it my way has been working gangbusters, so I think I'll not go mucking around with the system, thank you very much! (froth, froth).

In other news,
A bunch of my current unattended to items are intended to prep our place for sale sometime after graduation. (Assuming I score a better-paying job at that point, and that the market hasn't tanked by then.) So far, after 2 years, similar units are selling for almost 50% more than we paid for ours. So we're playing the fix-up game to try to maximize our profit and hopefully score a yard with the next move.

Meanwhile, there's this stupid list....

Yeah, I know... I've thought of it more than once. I've told him that I have friends who would help him out.
And he's after a snake, turtle or dragon.
More in a pm.

This is me exactly, except add sleeping through most classes to the mix. This was only enough effort for me to get a B in most classes, but because I was in AP classes they were weighted so I still ended up with a 4.0. I hope my kids have a better work ethic than I. My to do list is pretty intimidating.