My mile long list

I'm a list maker and a planner by nature. I tend to get very tense and overwhelmed if I have all these things spinning around in my head, and feel SO much better if I get them written down somewhere. Shopping lists, chores, projects, all of it. Things don't always get crossed off and priorities are always changing, but if it's written down it doesn't get forgotten until it's either crossed off, or removed from the list for one reason or another.

I wrote down all my to-do's the other day and oh my word it's a doozie. On top of the day-to-day running of a house (ie: cooking/cleaning (ha! that's maybe every 2 weeks)/ childcare/child chauffeuring/ homework management/bill payment/laundry/gosh this seems never ending!) there are the other things I want to do/need to attend to. Here goes:

Small stand-alone projects:

• Finish Jason's cross-stitch from when he was born
• Finish the recipe project I started last spring (need info off the crashed hard drive first)
• Finish the collage project I started last spring (again, it's on the hard drive)
• Make the aprons I bought fabric for last spring after seeing it on Laurel's blog
• Make my Family Rules canvas that I saw on Jen's blog
  
• Remake my Old Navy top like I saw on Jen's blog (clearly I need to stop reading her blog lol!)
• Deal with the mending/hemming pile next to my sewing machine
• Order glass for my craft table and Evie's desk (this should be easy to cross off, if I ever get around to it!)
  

Bigger tasks:

• Do our 2009 taxes
• Have a yard sale or otherwise dispose of all this baby stuff we've outgrown
• Paint/fix up the hall bathroom

Major projects:

• Redoing the master bathroom. Matt's pretty much in charge of this one; I have ideas in my head of what I want, but the timetable is all up to him.
• Paint Evie's room. Oh. My. Word. This REALLY needs to be done, and her carpet needs to be re-stretched. I am not looking forward to hauling out everything in her room in order to accomplish this. The girl is a pack-rat. We're hanging shelves and giving her a corkboard so she stops taping things to the walls.
  

Notice the stenciled dinosaur border :)

• Fix up the basement. This is actually more like several projects. The stairway could use some 'interest'; the playroom walls are empty (with the notable exception of Puzzle Edward) and the couch and ottoman we bought when Evie was a baby has pretty much been destroyed by my children. I'm going to attempt to reupholster it, unless someone talks me out of it.

Recognize this plaid? Seems like it was everywhere for awhile.

Never buy a couch with the back cushions attached.

At least I can look at Puzzle Edward while I work on the couch :)

So that's it. Think I can get it all done this year? and find time to blog about all of it? Maybe if I stop sleeping, but I don't think there's enough coffee in the world for all of that :)

How does your list compare?