A to-do

If I could change anything about my brain, I'd change my anal-retentiveness because I blame this factor on 98% of the stress I experience in my life. I have a really good memory, kind of uncannily good. Evidence of this is that I've never kept a day planner in my life and I don't forget anything. I just remember - it's hard to explain. While this talent may come in handy when you have to go to a doctor's or dentist's appointment, or need to remember a relative's birthday, or you need to recall a recipe from memory while you're at the grocery store, it also has it's downsides. Really, it's a double-edged sword because I also remember every little detail and thing that's eating at me. And I'll remember it until it's resolved.

For example, here are a just a few things on my to-do list that have been driving me nuts:
- Return the shower curtain I prematurely bought at Target 2 months ago
- Hang curtain rods
- Iron the curtains
- Vacuum and detail my car
- Buy new floor mats for my car
- Write a book
- Mop the kitchen floor
- Clean the bathroom
- Organize the storage room
- Repaint the shelves in my living room
- Find out and plan how to pour your own cement driveway
- Get my hair done
- Shave my legs
- buy new luggage
- write a new web bio for Stuart's Web site
- post to your blog before it gets even more lame than it already is
- and the list goes on and on and on

Sometimes I just wish I could turn off my brain. I wish I could just RELAX and not feel like every minute I'm sitting down I'm wasting time not doing other things I should be doing. It's exhausting...and stressful. This has been one of those weeks where I feel ultra stressed.

P.S. Tomorrow I'm headed to Milwaukee, WI to meet with a client of ours. Milwaukee is one of those places that I thought I would never go to. I'm curious to see what it is like...I'll try to take pictures and let you know about my adventures in middle America.