My To Do List

Thanks Aaron Beall @ sxc.hu

For the past eight years I've been a good corporate citizen. Up every morning. Drive an hour to work. Spend nine or 10 hours at my desk. Then another hour's drive home. That's if I didn't hit traffic morning or night (L.A. you know). Most days I left at 7 a.m. to returned by 7 p.m.

Ugg... not a way to live.

All the time I was working, I knew someday I would be able to come back home again and resume my writing life.

So I plotted... planned... and created a gazillion "To Do" lists. There were just so many wonderful projects I was going to get done... finally!

1. Paint the the kitchen, including the cabinets
2. Add crown molding and new hardware to the cabinets
3. Rehab the old 50s stove and hook it up
4. Switch the panty refrigerator with the kitchen one
5. Replace the floor with black & white vinyl tiles
6. Paint the kitchen chairs turquoise... or or maybe ivory
7. Finally lay the living room floor
8. Paint the fireplace screen black
9. Find a new cabinet for the laundry/sewing room
10. Finish the molding around the doors
11. Paint the the laundry room door to the outside... red on the inside, green on the out
12. Get a magnetic curtain rod and make curtain for said door
13. Make a skirt for the folding table (that has to serve as my sewing table/laundry counter)
14. Secure bookcase to the wall (and maybe paint) before it falls on table
15. Add door to furnace niche
16.  Finish molding on in downstairs bathroom
17. Paint dresser in bathroom... definitely red
18. Thinking a new curtains for the window and shower
19. Paint the mirror frame (or maybe find a new one... yeah)
20. Repaint the room... change it to blue with puffy white clouds
21. Reorganize hubby's office/guest room/exercise room/kids playroom
22. Sew up the new window valances
23. Cover the desk top with the nifty blue leather-looking fabric I found... last year!
24. Son's room.... don't even think of it
25. Install new carpeting in the master bedroom/my office
26. Sew the new valances for the windows (all eight of them) with the beautiful age ivory, green and red fabric I found... yeah, last year.
27. Install the corner shelves I got a the Goodwill store
28. Organize my files & bookcase
29. Find more storage for books and magazines
30. Reorganized/declutter bedroom closets!

And I haven't even gotten to the front porch, yard, garden, writing, Esty shop, websites...

So, what have I gotten done on my To Do list so far?

Nada! Zilch!! Nothing!!!

But I have hope (I just hope it doesn't take eight years!)

How about you? What's on your To Do list? And are you getting it done?

Thanks Aaron Beall @ sxc.hu

For the past eight years I've been a good corporate citizen. Up every morning. Drive an hour to work. Spend nine or 10 hours at my desk. Then another hour's drive home. That's if I didn't hit traffic morning or night (L.A. you know). Most days I left at 7 a.m. to returned by 7 p.m.

Ugg... not a way to live.

All the time I was working, I knew someday I would be able to come back home again and resume my writing life.

So I plotted... planned... and created a gazillion "To Do" lists. There were just so many wonderful projects I was going to get done... finally!

1. Paint the the kitchen, including the cabinets
2. Add crown molding and new hardware to the cabinets
3. Rehab the old 50s stove and hook it up
4. Switch the panty refrigerator with the kitchen one
5. Replace the floor with black & white vinyl tiles
6. Paint the kitchen chairs turquoise... or or maybe ivory
7. Finally lay the living room floor
8. Paint the fireplace screen black
9. Find a new cabinet for the laundry/sewing room
10. Finish the molding around the doors
11. Paint the the laundry room door to the outside... red on the inside, green on the out
12. Get a magnetic curtain rod and make curtain for said door
13. Make a skirt for the folding table (that has to serve as my sewing table/laundry counter)
14. Secure bookcase to the wall (and maybe paint) before it falls on table
15. Add door to furnace niche
16.  Finish molding on in downstairs bathroom
17. Paint dresser in bathroom... definitely red
18. Thinking a new curtains for the window and shower
19. Paint the mirror frame (or maybe find a new one... yeah)
20. Repaint the room... change it to blue with puffy white clouds
21. Reorganize hubby's office/guest room/exercise room/kids playroom
22. Sew up the new window valances
23. Cover the desk top with the nifty blue leather-looking fabric I found... last year!
24. Son's room.... don't even think of it
25. Install new carpeting in the master bedroom/my office
26. Sew the new valances for the windows (all eight of them) with the beautiful age ivory, green and red fabric I found... yeah, last year.
27. Install the corner shelves I got a the Goodwill store
28. Organize my files & bookcase
29. Find more storage for books and magazines
30. Reorganized/declutter bedroom closets!

And I haven't even gotten to the front porch, yard, garden, writing, Esty shop, websites...

So, what have I gotten done on my To Do list so far?

Nada! Zilch!! Nothing!!!

But I have hope (I just hope it doesn't take eight years!)

How about you? What's on your To Do list? And are you getting it done?