The Infamous “To Do” List

I don’t know how many people out there make “to do” lists like I do.  When I’m working I have one for work, one for personal both for day to day things that need to get done and then I have one humongous one with all the projects I want to complete in my lifetime.  At one time I even prioritized it!  Yikes.

 Well, for the past two days I’ve been working on one MAJOR project.  Taking all the things that I have written - either by hand or on other computers - which I do not have in electronic format and typing it onto my computer.  Did I mention this was a MAJOR project?  Huge.  After two days of typing the pile is currently about a foot and a half high of what is remaining, not including the stuff that is in individual books.  And, keep in mind, I have at other times, started this project so there’s some that was done before.  That’s a lot of writing.  When I started (3 years ago! Ouch!) The pile was about two and a half feet high.  This is journals, meeting notes, sermon outlines, poems, songs, stories, Bible study notes, snippets for future writing purposes.  Some of the stuff I typed today went back to 1998!

So, this is a serious project and I’m feeling pretty good about the progress I’ve made on it.  Most of what I’ve finished typing so far has been journals.  Three, once blank books down, five more full ones to go and they aren’t even part of the foot and a half pile that is sitting neatly in a box under my desk.  Yikes!  But what has interested me is how many more “to do” lists I’ve found in my journals.  Little things I wrote that I wanted to do, or needed to do years ago, that I still think I should do but haven’t done yet.

Finishing this project is going to leave me with an even longer master list (can’t you hear the booming voice saying it?  “THE MASTER LIST” *rofl* I sure can!) but at least I’ll be able to cross off one thing.  I even found, at the beginning of my 2007 journal a list that said - “additional things to complete in 2007″ - and that was 2 typed pages long and not even part of my original master list that I’ve been working from.

I think I need a new notebook *sigh* labeled “INFAMOUS, NEVER ENDING LIST OF THINGS TO DO” *lol*  But then, that would just be one more thing to type.  Perhaps instead of a notebook (but I love fresh notebooks that haven’t been tarnished by ink or pencil, waiting for me to fill them with words or pictures or clippings…) I could make an Excel spreadsheet and put a goal completion date and a place for an actual completion date.  If I get really bold, I could even put on there the date it made it to the BIG LIST!  That might be pretty scary.

Well, I was ready for bed and quite tired of typing when I thought - “hey, this is something I can share with the world!”  So there you go world!