What I see first every morning…
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
This is a screenshot of my home page from Monday (click to enlarge, then hit the back button):
Is it any wonder that I’m going nuts?
Despite my note-taking, post-it note obsession while plotting, I’m not a list maker. I make the list…and then I lose the list. Or, as I do in the case of my home page, I ignore the list. It’s very easy since front and center on my homepage, which I hit several times a day, is the countdown to my deadline. For some odd reason (insert sarcasm here) nothing else seems to matter but that number. 10 days. Only today, it’s 8 because it’s Wednesday. And on Friday, we leave for Chicago. What was I thinking?? Oh, yeah, I was thinking about tulips on every street corner, popcorn from Garrett’s, a free hotel room across the street from Grant Park (courtesy of my husband’s company) and a trip to Crate and Barrel to start furnishing my someday-new kitchen.
(Insert screaming here)
So, are you a listmaker? Do you forget things if they’re not written down or are you naturally hard-wired to do what truly needs to be done, leaving the rest for when it becomes ‘truly needs to be done’?
I operate on an as-needed basis…which drives my listmaking husband insane. He was so impressed when I added the to-do list to my home page…little did he know I can’t totally see it until after that deadline number goes away…and the book is actually done.
So back to work I go!
