The LIST

In an attempt to be somewhat productive in my last few days here on Earth (because let's face it, I might as well be going to Mars but could probably get there faster. My hips are going to be PISSED after 12 hours of flying) I decided that I should make a list of things I have to get done before I go to Mars.

This is The List!

Now I made The List about a week ago and every day I follow the exact same routine. I wake up and tell myself "I'm going to accomplish SOMETHING on this list today!" and in an effort to get that done I drink about 6 or 7 cups of coffee during the day so I'm appropriately jittery while talking to members (I have to get to their level somehow) but won't crash when I get home and want to do nothing but sleep.

This usually backfires, and I end up crashing and burning at home anyway only instead of doing it normally I do it with a giant caffeine headache.

I have, however, somehow managed to complete exactly TWO things on The List: (1) Hair gel because if I can't have nice hair I get all fussy, and (2) pictures for me for the apartment mostly so I can look at all your sorry mugs whenever I've got a sorry mug.

My personal favorite thing on the list is "New 'Indoor Shoes'" mostly because I don't even know what Indoor Shoes are.

The Japanese have lots of shoes. They have shoes for walking around outside, shoes for walking around in your house, separate shoes for going to the bathroom, they have work shoes that you have to show up to work in but not actually wear at work, and then they have shoes they wear at work that are not work shoes. These are called indoor shoes.

Do you see my problem? I own two pairs of shoes. Tennis and Dress. That's it. Sandals don't count because according to my Japanese friend's mom those are "Bathroom shoes."

All I know is that indoor shoes are not ever supposed to touch the ground anywhere else except for indoors. But I also need new regular tennis shoes and new regular work shoes because I have giant Sasquatch feet at size 10 and in the event that what I already own become damaged while fighting Mothra, I'll be hard pressed to find anything that won't squeeze my toes into oblivion. So, I'll be off to Target, the giant Solver of Problems, to figure all this out.

Now *The Plan* that goes along with *The List* is to complete all of the things on The List on Sunday. We'll see how successful I am.

Now procrastination, there's something I've always been exceptional at!