"The List"

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There's the expression we use ;"it's on the list". Generally it refers to things that need to be done (more like chores) but more often in my case involves some projects that I've toyed with,researched a little and have a fairly good idea of how to go about doing them. Some certainly entail having the extra money to do and others need further scrutiny. Still others require assistance and finding the right person to assist.
Here's a brief list of some things on "my list":

Dig a well for the garden
Start a bee hive (just one,for starters)
Create a small Japanese Garden
Expand my vegetable garden into a larger,more productive kitchen garden(like K2's Grandfather's!)
Learn Italian(am actively pursuing this one)
Execute already designed vertical garden plan but perhaps not in my own garden but for someone else for$$.


These are the more practical ones. My other "list" includes things like learning how to play Chopin on the piano,trips to many parts of the globe. Not necessarily unreachable but certainly not within the realm of anytime soon.

[happytraveller]

Learn spanish !
Do more sport *sigh*
Will think of some more tomorrow.

[bazfaz]

My ex had a list. Every Monday morning it would get updated and a new list printed.

The list had various ways of showing urgency. Just to get put on the list meant nothing, just an aspiration. In increasing levels of urgency: plain ordinary type (forget it); underlined (yawn); bold (maybe some day);italics (please, I have better things to do); capitals (hello, maybe I should think about this); asterisk (this needs doing).

Underlined bold italic capitals with asterisks and then circled by hand in ink: do it.

Write letter to the Economist (sublect not disclosed) had been on the list for several years already when we separated. Then, six years after we parted, I was quite surprised to see a letter from her printed in the Economist. It was topical so it was nothing to do with the first time Write letter to the Economist appeared ten years before.

[tillystar]

Learn spanish !
Do more sport *sigh*
Will think of some more tomorrow.

Hey! You stole my list!

I love your ex's list Baz. It sounds like my task list at work, god there are things on there from 2 years ago I truely plan to finish one day. They get circled and asterixed and flashing lights then Ooooops not important anymore back to plain old ordinary type with a flash of the fingers

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Even the Christmas card list is highly variable, from the people who cross off anyone who didn't send one to the ones who make a point to sending cards to people who don't write to make them feel guilty.

[Deleted]

I make daily lists. I also have a three month calender. I like having goals, whether it be something that I'd like done that day or that week or this year even.

[bazfaz]

The only list I have on a regular basis is a shopping list, done twice a week.

[nic]

My 'List' is generally comprised of completing things I should've finished years ago;i.e., a university degree. Otherwise, I have a couple of places on it that I need to visit in the immediate future.

I also need to convince some French girl that I'm worth the effort.

[cigalechanta]

I have no lists, just desires!