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I am a list person.
List of things to grab in an emergency, ranked in order of priority? Check. List of future purchases and expenses, with estimated costs for each? Check. List of to-do’s, executed home and vehicle maintenance, and needed groceries? Checkity check check!
And I’ve been maintaining a bucket list - or rather a life list – since I was old enough to write one. At 10 years old, it was stuff like “be more feminine” and “get straight A’s”.
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I look back on those early lists with gentle amusement. How little I knew! How much I have grown!
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“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Employment Chronology. Resumes are not complete pictures of your work history, rather a recent snapshot for the purpose of obtaining a specific job. While it seems like something you could never forget, you’d be surprised at how easy it is to eliminate that information from your memory! My list includes the company, address and telephone number, dates of employment, my supervisor or manager, and any information regarding major projects or clients.
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Former Residences. Where have you lived, and for how long? If you ever discover the cure for cancer, your biographer is going to need this information! Actually, you can be quizzed on your residential history when you apply for credit. In an effort to curtail identity theft, sometimes a company will ask you to confirm information on your credit report to verify that you are indeed the person making the request.
Sexual Partners. Not to be considered as digital notches on a bedpost, instead necessary information since your sexual history is a key component of your medical history.
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*A huge thanks to Amanda for sharing this with me! There are no words for just how much this rocked my weekend.
One of the things you take away from a truly craptacular childhood is the understanding that, at the end of the day, the only person you can depend on is you.
So you do it because you’ve always done it, get it done because no one else will.
You become uber-responsible, uber-organized, uber-everything. Like a Swiss Army Human Being because you know if you can’t do it, you can find out how. You pay for your own meals, change your own tires, and duct tape your own plumbing.
When people need help, they come to you.
I hate cooking. (There, I’ve said it!) Not because I hate food or cooking but because I kind of think it is a huge waste of time.
(Unless, of course, you have an Easy Bake Oven which is the awesomest thing ever in which case don’t read another word of this article because you are too busy rocking your kitchen with rainbows and sunshine!)
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Anyway, I know you should probably shun me but the fact of the matter is that if you spend an hour a day on meal prep, you’ll spend 45 days at the stove in a year.
That actually isn’t that bad until you remember that, after working a full day, most people have only 3-4 hours of “extra” time. That’s time to spend with their family, time to take care of the house, time to be alone with a good book.
…which is not a lot of time to go around! But there is a solution and they are called “leftovers”.
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