Basically everything in my life boils down to lists these days. My grocery list. What I’m cooking for dinners next week. My Target list. The things I want to do today/this week. People I should touch base with b/c I haven’t talked to them in a while. New episodes of TV shows I’m current watching. Bourne movies, favorite to least favorite. Stuff to mention at my next physical. Medicines I see advertised online. Schools to visit with K.
We drove up to one of those schools and stayed in a hotel for one night. I kept a list of all the things I didn’t like about the room. (No Hallmark channel, creepy lighting in bathroom, no towel bar, 8 other things).
I also had a list of potential places for us to eat dinner while we were there.
When I think about who I am/how I am, it’s a list of things I’m doing/not doing // interested in/not interested in.
The list of My Life Lately is:
- learning morse code (I wondered how hard it could be, it’s not)
- learning backgammon (same)
- sort of working on music but not much (I have a list of ideas I will pursue at some point)
- thinking about whether I want to/can/could learn how to rollerblade
- looking for places to volunteer
- the list of meds I need to give my cat every day to try to maintain his quality of life
- God Andor is so good
- Semi-stressed about work/tech/career stuff but fine for now
- occasional runs & bike rides
- slowly getting back into reading
There’s a couple of other things I’m up to lately and I meant to write them all in a list so I would have them handy when I wrote this post, but I didn’t. So in a sense those things do not exist.
I wonder how I would summarize my life to someone who knew me in high school. Not that I would need to, but like what would they learn from my online breadcrumbs, which are fairly few & far between since social media collapsed. I do not remember keeping lists in high school, if that helps.
Actually not true I just remembered 1 list from high school. I had to write something for an English class and had decided to write a story and then when I realized how difficult that would be it was too late to back out. I was extremely stressed out and didn’t know where to start so I just wrote a list of all the things I needed to figure out in order to be able to finish the story. So I did and then I did. Vague memory, potentially heavily edited by time, of my teacher being more genuinely interested in the list than the story itself. Really makes you think.