Rocket and Luna 
Autumn 2005
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I'm good at making lists, too good. I have them scattered all over the house. Often I lose one and have to start another only to find the original a few days later with the missing items I couldn't remember. This is usually after I have returned from the store.
This week I have at least 3 lists; one for tomorrow's shopping, the second for things I need to pack for my trip to visit my mom, the third for things I want to buy there to bring back here. My lists are often broken into shorter lists or categories within them; pills to bring along, the dog stuff, knitting projects while TV watching, presents for my family (we're having a VERY late Christmas party since mom was in the hospital right before and couldn't make it out here on the trip we had planned.)
I've got about a week to get everything at home ship shape too, so there is also (in my head, a bad place to leave a list languishing) a list of things to do around the house so DH doesn't go nuts looking for things to eat, etc. For instance I forgot to buy the pistachio nuts last week even though they were on the new shopping list, more prominently displayed. This list also has supplies for my future ducklings, chicken wire for my garden, etc. not just food, a multi-tasking sort of list.
On my computer desk I see approximately 20 or more pieces of pink and blue note paper with all sorts of lists. The other day I threw out three. I had no idea what those were for anymore. Some were lists, others notes to myself of things to do, sort of one item lists. I know I can throw out the one with the email of the shipping company that brought my kayak, in fact I'll do that now... well maybe later, it's lost amid all the others. What else is here? another note/list has a recipe I'll probably never use, (I have lots of unused recipes on scraps of paper, this one is for cream cheese frosting). There's one listing error messages my PC has given me. Anyone know what JAVA error 1500 means? I think I will throw that one out. Gone!
I'm considering getting a cheap cork board to pin my lists to the wall to neaten up the desk a little. I've been thinking about it for a couple weeks, it's been on one of the lists in my head. The more I think about it, the idea grows on me, like a fungus. I can get a cheap one at the dollar store to test it out. But more and more it seems like a good idea. I think I'll go downstairs now and write it on my list.