To Do.
There are 2 types of people. Those who make lists and those whom laugh at the aforementioned group.
I am a list person. I am what I is and I accept it.
Oh COME ON. Who can deny the sweet vindication of being able to CROSS SOMETHING OFF A LIST? Okay, that, and I can barely remember what I did yesterday.
When summer started, I created a list of activities to do. This weekend we worked on the list and went to the lake. Obviously, I made another list of things to pack.
As it turns out, when we got to our destination, I forgot my swimsuit. And, finding a nice swimsuit (you know, the anti-beached-whale variety) last minute at the local tractor supply store, didn't happen.
While Sam and Toddler gleefully swam, I was stuck on the beach.
I would like to say how serene it was watching them frolick in the water, but I would be lying. Instead, my thoughts were of how inept my list making has become and how unlikely I'd even find my way out of a paper bag.
Long story short, I am NOT crossing this activity off my list. Go ahead, fess up, which camp are you in?
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I'm a listt maker wannabe. I think lists make you so much more organized and free your mind of all the 'clutter' that sits on your mind. I make them ever now and then and when I forget to make them I think, "I need to put 'make a list' on my list."
I need help, eh? lol
Fab photo, btw.
~melody~
WOW, I can't believe I got the 1st comment...wasn't paying attention when I wrote it. I'm usually #4072! lol Just had to say that.
~melody~
Second!
But of course. I AM A LIST MAKER AS WELL. At least most of the time.
Love the Teva's.
I gave up list making when my lists started to yellow and curl up on the edges.
I forget things like underwear and bras on trips. And swimsuits.
I feel ya.
No lists for me. I usually wing it. When I do try to make a list, I forget where it is. If I decide to look at it again, that is.
You should have swam in your clothes. :)
I am a list maker, too. just made one tonight for the week...things I want to have finished by Friday. and by the way, love the photo.
thanks for the nice comment at my blog and will be sure to continue at PSF. :)
no lists here, well sometimes I make them and nothing becomes of them or I forget them too.
Too bad about the suit. This just means you have to go again.
TOTAL list-maker here. Unfortunately I don't do a whole lot of that crossin' off thingy you were talking about... ; )
I not only make lists. I have been known to put on the list things that I already accomplished that morning (on the grounds that it is a list of Things to Do Today), just so that I can have more things to cross off and thereby feel more productive.
I make lists for packing, for activities, for work projects. I make lists of lists I need to make.
Okay, the last is an exaggeration.
But I do love the lists.
List-maker, huh? I'll add that to my list of things we have in common.
You know I am a list maker! I am also a AAR-er (After Action Report - er)....I have a notebook of various lists. After a trip to the beach, for example....I make an AAR of what I should have taken and what we really didn't need. We added meat tenderizer to our list last time. You can make a paste out of it for jelly fish stings.
So yes, I am a list maker.
Love the Tevas!
I am MAJOR list maker. I have lists of everything - things to do, books to read, movies to see, food to make, places to go, emails to send, posts to write, etc. The list (ha ha) goes on and on.
I would be LOST without my list.
And I would be sad. I will admit that I get a sick amount of joy from crossing things off the list. I may or may not even sometimes write down things I have already done, just so that I can cross them off...
my daily list takes around 10 days to actually accomplish. I make the same list every other day until the things on the list are at least ALMOST done. I'm otherwise known as a PROCRASTINATOR;-/
Three cheers for LISTS!! I'm there all the way.
(whoo-hoo! we just saw a picture of your feet...when do we get to see the face??)
I am the QUEEN of list makers - I make lists to keep up with my lists! I could not live without my lists. Glad to here I'm in good company! Sorry that you forgot your swimsuit - not so bad that you will have to go back to the lake, though!
Have a good Monday - Kellan
I love your Tevas.
What's a list again?
I'm a list girl, but most lists are in my head. I found that it takes too much time to make a list, but the ones in my head are not as fun to cross off.
Also, for packing? I have a WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF that is perpetually packed because no matter how well the list is made, things are forgotten. When I was in high school and would come home for visits (I went to a boarding school), I forgot things, and it was nice because I got to go get a new dress or a new pair of shoes or a new WHATEVER. Now it's not so much fun. Well, it sort of is, but I get tired of paying for it.
Anyway, I don't scoff at list makers!
I got so carried away with your question that I forgot my original comment! I feel SO BAD for you that you went to the lake and didn't get to get in. I can't think of many worse things. I would have been miserable. But the picture is great!
OH, I'm sorry you missed the swimming. But, Tractor Chic would be A BIT extreme.
I'm defintely a list maker. Absolutely. Of course, it would help if I could find my lists sometimes...
I'm definately a list maker.
I am all about the lists.. with four it's a necessity, but I have my blank out moments even with the lists!!
I love finding an old list and analyzing it- Were the items completed, did things on the list happen, is there anything on this old list that I can put on my new list.
I also always have some straggler items that seem to always be on my list like clean out my purse or work on the garage!!
I'm a little of both. I love to MAKE the lists, but rarely bother with sticking to them! Leads to some logistics issues usually, but hey, that's what makes my otherwise boring life exciting!!
occasionally I do a list, but then I tend to lose it and find it later. like just today, when I found the list of movies I wanted to rent. surprisingly, I was able to cross half of them off
I'm not a huge list maker. However, when I do make a list, I no longer need it because then I remember if I've written it down....:)
You know, maybe a list would help me remember what I have to....ooooh butterfly!
While I do love the satisfaction of crossing off an accomplished task (on RxMan's multitude of lists), I am a laugher at the listees. See, I lose the lists and then curse myself so...what's the point??
You couldn't go commando??? (:
i am a TOTAL list maker...very little satisfies me more than completing a task and crossing it off the list!
of course i also make a sublist for most lists so on my sublist for "go to the beach" i would have listed 'bring swim suit' as one of the items on the sublist of 'what to pack'...not to be confused with the sublist of 'what goes in the cooler'...totally separate sublist.
go ahead and laugh...oh and my laundry is done too...
seriously, don't be jealous y'all!
I'm definitely a list maker. I make lists for everything. Shopping, packing, teaching, eating, whatever.
My latest list it the 101 things to do in 1001 days. I must admit that it was a hard list to come up with. Now I really hope I can cross them all off in 1001 days.
I make mental list but I never wrrite them down. I think that is on my list to do
I try and make a list, then laugh at myself as I am never able to follow it. But then at least I attempt. :)
Oh girl, I am with you 100% - I am a huge listmaker. And yes, I get made fun of. A lot. But otherwise I lose my mind!
Dude. I am a listmaker. It's in the Rimarama genome. But my preferred method is to draw check boxes next to each list item, then put a check in the box when the task has been completed. Although I'm actually more inclined to rewrite the list, minus the completed item.
I love lists. Problem is that I need a list to remind me to make a list. But I enjoy making them so much that I often draw them up after the fact - you know, quite psychotically I will write a list in my diary of things that I had already accomplished on Monday (I will make this list on Thursday). Hence I am so busy gloatingly writing lists about things past, that I never have the time to make new ones that might actually be worth it.
Nice shot. Didn't you at least enjoy some quiet time? Oh and me, I am a lister!
I'm a list person too. My MIL and SIL recently surprised me with a shopping trip, but I was at a total loss because I had no list! LOL
I'm definitely a list girl!
Love those sandy toes!
Yeah, I make lists like mad. The ones at work I follow; the ones at home are a disaster!!
I am a list maker! Can't help it.
I bet it isn't a shocker that I am a list maker. Me and my calendar are BFF's and I send myself reminders constantly. IWantSandy.com- visit it. She will change your life. My own little personal assistant and I don't keep her on the payroll :)
I don't make lists... the wife does... and she makes my lists for me...
Sometimes I'll write things I just did on my list and then cross it off immediately.
List person. But... I usually make permanent lists (or ones that I'll use over and over). Then the basics get remembered. And the novel? Forgotten of course!
Love the toes dug in the sand! I think it mirrors your frustration at your lists quite nicely. :)
I am a list person. I don't always make them on paper though as I suffer ridicule from others in my household about that. However, over the years I excel at mental lists of things to do that I lodge in my short term memory.
Although I'm wondering that the older I get the more I put the list in my phone instead!
List maker, list maker, make me a list. Yeah, I have to be, right? 'Cause I am so anal.
Totally a list maker. I make lists of lists. And then, I rewrite lists when there are too many things crossed off!
Fine. You caught me. I'm a list maker. ;)
I am such a list maker too! And I *always* forget something completely crucial! Somehow it never makes the list ;)
I'm a list maker! I have even made a list of the lists I would like to make.
No secret at all that I am a list junkie....but yes the lists fail me from time to time....I or fail them...or something. Sometimes lists just don't work.
LONG LIVE THE LIST. Those who don't, should.
Cool shot.
I make a list of my lists! Nuf said!
I am SO a list maker, but I also like the freedom that comes along with being able to just "go with it"...although, when I just go with it, I ALWAYS forget something...so, I go back to making a list again...
Ha!
Well, I used to make lists and occasionally still do but generally I find that lists take too much of the time that I need to be devoting to accomplishing what's on them.
I'm a list maker. Actually, since we are being honest, I think I'm more of a list maker than a list doer. I love to make lists of things to do but then actually finding the time or motivation to do them - well that's another story. I guess that is why it IS so exciting crossing something off my list cause I'm so shocked that I actually got something done.
I'm a list maker. I just found a list making application for my blackberry and I'm pretty excited about it!
I am surely a list maker. I get so much satisfaction crossing things off.
I am sorry you forgot your bathing suit. What a bummer.
List maker here. I make lists about what lists to make. :)
Let's pretend I make lists and cross them off because it sounds better than my method of writing things down & then never looking at the list again.
(Exception: Grocery shopping, although I do wing it from time to time.)
I am really good at making a list, then not needing to use it because I remember everything just because I wrote it down.
It would be typical of me to forget my swimsuit as well - I will remember everything for the hubby and kids, but forget to pack my own things...
Yeah, I too am a list maker. They usually serve me well. I arrange my main one in a calendar form (like lesson plans I used to do for school). Now retired, if I don't get it done today...I can move it to tomorrow.
Whenever people tell me I need to do something...I just say, "yeah, it is on THE list"!
UGH, I want to be a list maker - and sometimes I am - often when I dont list I forget - heck like you even when I do list I forget!
UGH I long to be organized LOL
ummm yeah.... I make lists....and I am known to add things to the list I have already done so I can cross it off. LOL
I have to have lists or I'll be a crazy woman.
Oh, I feel for you. I would have been in the same predicament - no flattering swimsuit = no swimming.
I am a list maker for the same reason, as well. I can't remember nothin' these days. I used to have a memory, then I had kids! FYI this past weekend I forgot to pack jammies for Anya, so...I'm a failure at that, too. ;)
List maker. List loser.
The only lists that work are when I write on the white board. That gets Recaro on side and things start getting done.
I'm a list girl -- my husband makes so much fun of me for it. . . but, I can't help it!
I make list, but almost never follow through with them. they work though kind of... I will get 4 things done instead of nothing, even though my list may of had 10. :)
I make lists ... and yes, like you, even though I make the lists, I still forget stuff!
I'm a list junkie. And, that would've pissed me off royally.
I wish I were still alist person, I think at this point in my life, it would just be too depressing! Love the photo.
I am SO a list person. I make lists of the lists I need to make. And yes yes yes, I get great satisfaction at being able to put a big blue line through something I've done (I even put things on the list that I've already done, just so I can cross them straight off and make myself feel better! Is that wrong?)
TOTALLY in the list maker camp. always have been, always will be. everyone in my family makes fun of me. hubs makes lists and the first thing on the list says 'make list', so he can immediately cross it off!!!
There is something SO satisfying in crossing things off of a list. I'm definitely a list maker and a planner.
My pockets are full of lists. I write on any scrap of paper I come across.
Ask me how much I ever actually cross off those lists.
I'm in neither camp. And both. I make lists but I never EVER follow through with them. I make a list and then I get distracted.
The only thing I can cross off my list is the make a list.
i am a list-maker, almost compulsively. i am not a list-checker. so i'm in the middle?
so this comment, in list form, would be:
DO:
- make lists
- hope i do items on list
DO NOT:
- check lists
- actually ever find out if list got completed
- stop making lists
i know this was on my list of things to do today, but i can't find the list.
I'm a total list maker. If I don't put it on a list, I forget to do it...seriously.
And I love to mark things off the list. Feels good!
I'm a total list maker. If I don't put it on a list, I forget to do it...seriously.
And I love to mark things off the list. Feels good!
I'm all about the lists, baby. Oh, and I have forgotten to bring my own bathing suit to the beach approximately four times in the last nine years. 'Cause I'm efficient like that. ;)
I'm a list maker and then I lose my list.
Oh. how sad! I am a list maker, but a very inept one. I don't like to see blank spots, so I over-list... and then beat myself up when I can't do everything I've listed. At least you got a nice photo (I can feel that sand between my toes!)
TOTALLY a list maker! I make lists of lists I need to make. Sad, but true. Sorry about your missing suit, that is a bummer.
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I'm a lister.
KEEP BELIEVING
Oh, I'm so the list maker. My husband's friends used to think my husband was organized, until they got to know me. The grief I get!!
But you know what...non-list makers look to us to make sure that when they go out, there are snacks, swim suits, and sun screen. We make the world go 'round, we do ;-)
My tip...make one master list with everything for all sorts of trips. That way, you don't have to remember (or as in my case, forget) things every time.
I have to work on my AAR lists though :-o
Oh that stinks about the swimsuit, I had the same issue once in Las Vegas when it was 120 and my friends were frolicking in the pool!
I'm definitely a list addict, I have notebooks full of them. I'll even find duplicates.