"The Busy Woman's Best Friend"
But then I thought it might not be politically correct so I titled it:
"The Busy Person's Best Friend"
But if you ask me it doesn't have the same impact.
"The Busy Man's Best Friend" would have been equally as impacting, but also politically incorrect... I suppose... and not as relevant since I am obviously a women.
So the best friend for a busy person is a TO DO LIST
I don't do it if it's not on a list.
I don't buy it if it's not on a list.
I don't cook it if it's not on a list.
I don't go to a store if it's not on a list.
and so on...
Some people keep it in their phone, some on their hand-held devices, some on their computer.
For me, it has to be a piece of paper, because their is nothing so satisfying as crossing off a task completed.
But, I can't completely black it out because I'll forget I accomplished it as I continue to look at the list in the coming days.
I will add to the list as I think of things I need to do. When I run out of lines on my paper, I transfer all the undone tasks to a new piece of paper.
Sometimes the unthinkable happens and I do things that are not on the list at all. So, I add them to my list and cross them off immediately just so I can have that immense satisfaction!
Here is a picture of my current to do list. I thought it'd be interesting to post.
There was a certain task that was literally on my to do list for nine months.
Nine months, I kept transferring this task to my updated to do list.
Nine months, the task glared me in the eye and said "Do me, Do me"
Today I finally can cross it off my list!!! Victory!
The task was to make these little puppies....
You may be asking yourself, what in the heck are those things?
They are eye patches for Sierra to wear over her glasses, for her vision therapy of course!
Sierra has been wearing one since she was five years old for 4 hours a day, doctors orders. "It helps my bad eye get stronger," she says to people when they ask her about it.
For years she has worn this patch.
Not a very glamorous accessory to be wearing four hours a day if you ask me!
It's been lost a bazillion times. Sierra has hidden it another bazillion times. So I always meant to make more. (She hates having to look through only that "bad" eye.)
I hoped by making some new, more fashionable fun ones, she'd be more compliant to her vision therapy.
I bought the fabric back in December and it's been on my to do list and today I finally accomplished it!!!!!
(A little side note: it looks like I need to go back to preschool because I wrote the "S" backwards on one of her patches. "Doink")
