Master To Do List

I'm all about making lists--grocery lists, packing lists for trips, and "to do" lists. During my last semester of college I remember making a long term to do list. I wrote it on a full sheet of paper and posted it on our home office cork board so I would see it all the time. It stayed on that board as we moved to three different apartments. When I made it, I can still remember thinking, "I'll never get all that done!" But I eventually did, even though it took me 5 years.

That 2004 list included:

• Get a real job that has benefits (not more babysitting)
  
• Apply to graduate school
• Get into graduate school
• Take child/infant CPR

There was probably other stuff on it, but I can't remember right now. If I can find the list at home (yes, I kept it) I'll scan it and post it.

I have been thinking for a while about all the "big" things I need to get done at this point in my life. So here's my new long term to do list for all to see:

• Get a mortgage modification or refinance to a lower rate
  
• Get a second opinion about my cardiac episode
  
• Reapply for life insurance
• Get Dave to go to the dentist
• Get Dave to go to the eye doctor
• Formalize a hypothesis for my graduate research and come up with a formal plan for finishing said research
• Take my qualifying exam
• Finish graduate school by the end of winter quarter 2012
  
• Find a nanny or day care for Eddie before the end of December
• Get Eddie a passport (we're going to France in April!)
  

The scariest thing on this list is taking my qualifying exam. But if I can get a hypothesis for my research (and some good preliminary data) then that shouldn't be so scary...right???

Wish me luck!