Ever wonder where the time goes?  I’m not talking decades.  Hours turn into days, days into years, years into decades and suddenly I’m a young person in a granny body bouncing a baby on my knee wondering if I have enough decades left to see the baby grow up and have babies, or will I be lucky enough to remain independent, relativity pain free, and then die suddenly?   These are my inner thoughts as I travel down life’s hill.

But what about today?

Since I have the day off, I made a to-do list last night… – go to the grocery, pay bills, do laundry, exercise and visit with my sister on this hot summer day at her pool.

It’s 11:15 a.m. I cannot check one thing off my list. In four hours I’ve started one load of laundry and hauled my trash to the curb.  I’m going to need to postpone a few things.  I’ll pay bills past due dates, exercise tomorrow, and skip going to the grocery.  I still plan on going to the pool, but nothing’s written in stone.

These are the reasons a to-do list doesn’t work.

Before I get to the list I must…

• Edit contacts in my cell phone – and add pictures so that when someone calls caller ID is their face.
• Try on clothes to see if I need to exercise.
• Get on Facebook and respond to everyone’s comments.
• Post comments.
• Read personal email and wonder why people send such pointless emails.
• Read work email and respond as if I’m in the office.
• Check work voicemail. Make notes to call the person back when I have time. Save the voicemails because I’ll lose the notes.
• Debate on taking a shower and then put it off because I might exercise.
• Answer the phone.
• Shower and then meet a friend for lunch.
• Check Facebook to see if I’m missing something.
• Post comments on people’s post.
• Look through the mail. Get on the internet to check out the store that sent me a catalog.
• Check email.
• Answer the phone.
• Take my granddaughter to the drug store to get a poster board.
• Take her to McDonalds.
• Visit with the neighbors gathered across the street
• Plan tomorrow’s to-do list

If I wasn’t so busy a to-do list might work.