{"id":306,"date":"2006-04-25T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2006-04-25T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:23:43","slug":"making-a-list-checking-it-five-or-six-thousand-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/making-a-list-checking-it-five-or-six-thousand-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a List.. checking it five or six thousand times.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may have already mentioned that I am moving.\u00a0 In fact, I know I had mentioned it earlier this month.\u00a0 Well, we are currently in the midst of trying to sort through our apartment and making every effort to be diligently on task.\u00a0 Humph.<\/p>\n<p>So, I have been making lists.\u00a0 If you know me, you might understand how laughable this is.\u00a0 I am great at making them, but chances are, before I actually get to make use of the list I have either lost it or completely forgotten about it.\u00a0 You may be thinking that I am a ditz, but I protest.\u00a0 I like to think that it is because I have such a large brain that little things like lists get lost in it&#8217;s vastness.\u00a0 (HA! yeah right&#8230;.).\u00a0 Whatever the reason, be it my brain or my shoes (sorry for the random Dr. Suess quote), I am trying to keep to my list making.\u00a0 But, while I am doing so, I am realizing that me following a list is very much like a peacock trying to lasso a wild boar.\u00a0 Such a ridiculously impossible task.\u00a0 I am such a scattered individual and have such an odd way of multi-tasking that I am not sure that lists are for me.\u00a0 I am starting to wonder why I am forcing myself into this weird little box that I have never fit in before.\u00a0 I guess because moving is such an overwhelming task that if I didn&#8217;t, the liklihood of me getting anything done at all would be slim.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the past two days, I have been walking around with a list in my pocket of things that have to be done every day for the next week to get us moved.\u00a0 There is a copy on my refrigerator.\u00a0 I am determined to try it out this way rather than my seemingly helter skelter usual way, for better or for worse.\u00a0 So far, it hasn&#8217;t really been a big motivator or a source of managerial structure &#8211; but maybe if I keep looking at it and if I keep reading it, it may just work it&#8217;s magic on me yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have already mentioned that I am moving.\u00a0 In fact, I know I had mentioned it earlier this month.\u00a0 Well, we are currently in the midst of trying to sort through our apartment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}