A Real To-Do List…

I am not a list person.

Think random notes.  Placed here, stuck there, wedged between the seats in the car.  Simple subtraction in the corners, barely legible phone numbers scrawled across…
I simply pay no respect to stick-it notes and the organized list form.  Its sad and unorganized. 
And leaves my poor overworked mind to hold all the jumbled ideas.

I will become a list person. 

It is my 2011 resolution.  Why, you may ask?  Because my memory is wretched, and quite frankly its a necessity my friends.  When you see the list below you shall understand, sympathize, and immediately send condolences (and chocolate).  Here is to a busy, project-filled 2011; possibly extending into 2012, or maybe we’ll just call it my five-year-whenever-I-get-around-to-it-and-I-promise-to-get-around-to-it list.  Sounds perfect.

Get Serious, Real To-Do List
Home Edition

1. Order dining room chairs
2. Sitting room rug
3. Paint fireplace doors (brass to bronze)
4. Paint master bathroom vanity
5. Paint kids bathroom vanity
6. Frame mirror in kids bathroom
7. Finish curtains in son’s bedroom
8. Headboard for son’s bedroom
9. Refinish daughter’s dresser
10. Build daughter’s bed (w/ help from Ana White & my dad)
11. Remove wallpaper/Paint stairway
12. Paint upstairs trim/baseboard/woodwork (and this is last for a reason… holy awful)
13. Paint kitchen table

I am terribly nervous about this list.  Its ambitious and involves paint.  

I love paint.  

I hate to paint. 

Keep your fingers crossed. 

Send threats kind encouragement when I don’t come through with a promised reveal…