I have a new obsession - my list. Before, I would have a list and I would look at it and prioritize what is most pressing and do that first and henceforth down my list. Well, NO MORE! Now I have a new method! I do things from the top to the bottom, and what doesn’t get done, doesn’t get done. I love it. Before, every day, dishes and laundry, dishes and laundry, while the corners of the house started to look raggedy. Now, the dishes and laundry pile up, but sometimes I’ve been able to look through the newspaper! Or pot an overgrown plant! Or polish my silver!

What happens to the dishes and laundry, you may ask? I find that my husband notices unwashed dishes and a lack of socks in his drawer, but doesn’t notice unpolished silver in the back cupboard. When I turn around from emailing a friend I’ve neglected for too long, there he is, washing the dishes. It’s great.

I’m a little scared of him with the laundry, but it’s good to branch out.

I think this flies in the face of most time-management logic, but I’ve been enjoying it for the last few days. I’m always revising my time-management techniques, but I’m a list girl and always will be. There’s something incredibly satisfying about crossing out a finished item. I put absurdly simple things on my list sometimes, like brushing my teeth, just to have the encouragement of crossing it out if I’m having a discouraged day!

Confess. Is there anyone else out there who knows what I’m talking about? Am I the only list lunatic in Voxtrop?

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