The Un-Enjoyment List

For starters, I am not a list maker. I am one of those completely insane human beings that keeps everything in their head and shows up at every event prepared, organized and ready to go.

And my children wonder why I am so pissed when they whammy me with something at the last-minute!!! Hence, the stern talking to my son received yesterday morning when he needed money to buy a ticket to the LAST school dance AND it was the last day to purchase tickets. You couldn’t have told me about this on Monday???

Realizing that I am definitely the crazy exception and not the rule, I absolutely appreciate whatever tricks work for you. Given that there are so many lists produced in a day. My girlfriend has at least five lists going at any given time….the grocery list, the chore list, the to-do list, the kid list and the husband list. Me being me, I suggested condensing lists. For instance, chores and to-do on the same list, kids and husband on a family list and so on.

Oooooh no no no!!! That just wouldn’t work! How silly of me!! PALEEEEASE!!

Last week, I started to think about these different lists. The three-year goal list, the five-year goal list, the bucket-list. I also started to think about my current life situation. Happily married, unemployed with four kids going in four million directions and my husband and I going in six million directions. The economy is in the crapper and there are no jobs in my field that aren’t at least a four-hour daily commute and those jobs are very few. The part-time jobs closer to home are buried under the bajillion resumes of applicants ranging from a snow balls chance in hell to so over qualified its hysterical and I am somewhere in between.

So, what is an unemployed, overachiever, newly stay-at-home Mom to do with this over-abundance of time?????

I….have NO idea???   Truly….NO IDEA!!! LOOOHOOOOSER!!! And then it hits me, like a lightning bolt. I can do ANYTHING!! For the first time in my life, I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT!!

I ran into the office and pulled out one of the many unused, very cute and functional note books that I so love to buy with every intention to write important things in and never, ever do. I pick a very nice one with tropical flowers on it and a good size. Not to small so I can read and write easily and not to big that I hate carrying it around in my bag. I open it to the first page and at the top I write…

The Un-Enjoyment List

This is my list of all the things I have ever wanted to do, said I would do and haven’t gotten around to do. I am going to learn Spanish and maybe even French. I am going to play my guitar. I will learn how to play the piano. I want to be certified in SOMETHING. I don’t know exactly what that certification will be but it will be something worth while and nothing to do with a job related project. Just something I’m interested in. I have a whole list of things on my un-enjoyment list and my goal is to complete as many things on my list as I can before I go back to work. Which I will…someday. Until then…..I’m gonna enjoy my un-enjoyment!!!

Ciao for now!