This time of year my ‘to do list’ is much like everyone else’s:

• Put up tree and decorate
• Compose Christmas letter
• Prepare house for guests
• Plan menus
• Attend holiday parties
• Christmas shop
• Send packages to out of state family

You get the idea. What’s not on my list is baking or sending out cards. To be honest, I never have the time or gumption to bake. I also don’t have the money to buy and mail cards after Christmas shopping. The price of stamps is about what Christmas cards used to cost (okay, I know I’m going way, way back).

If that’s not enough, there is still the list of things I need to complete – from back in October. With just a few weeks left in the year, these items loom larger in my list of tasks.

I am a list person.

In my previous job, it was one way of keeping myself on track. I also make notes on my desk calendar what needs to be done each day of the month. I also use lists to plan my week – you know, Monday after work I have to get these three things done; Tuesday I need to get five things done – and that doesn’t include dinner, dishes and getting my clothes ready for the next day. Let’s not forget the coffee pot either! (See earlier post, “The Sanctity of Coffee”.)

So this week, on top of wrapping gifts and finish up shopping, there’s haircuts and hopefully you’ll catch me in line at the post office Saturday morning. I’ve made calls that needed to be done and emails sent. Check – that’s done.

Here is the lonely nag on my list – post on the reunion Facebook page. This item has been sitting like a wallflower at a junior high dance. Invisible and yet “there” at the same time. Its discomfort at being forgotten has only made it more prominent on my list.  Its font has grown from a modest Callibri 9 to an Arial Black Bold 16. Still it waits.

So this week, after I’ve finished this post (and crossed it off my list) I will compose my post for my classmates. After I check that item off my list, I’ll probably be adding three more.

Will it ever end?