I love lists. Big ones, little ones .. any size at all, really. I make lists in notebooks, on my phone, on Post-It notes that collect in the bottom of my purse like dust bunnies. I can't seem to help myself. Most of the time, my lists are just standard jottings of what to pick up at the grocery store, or the errands I need to run on Saturday; sometimes I really go wild and make a quick list of upcoming birthdays that I need to buy cards for - which I never get around to doing, by the way. (I just make the list and forget about buying the cards approximately 15 minutes later.) Occasionally, however, I make a different kind of list. An out-of-the-ordinary list. A mysterious list. A list that defies definition (and interpretation). Intrigued?
I found just such a list about a month ago, hanging around on a mini legal pad that I use at work for all sorts of odds and ends. I can't remember writing this list, and there was no title at the top to help me figure out what in God's name I was thinking while I composed it. It is, quite simply, just another list in a long list of lists, but I keep coming back to it because I can't figure it out! Why did I make this list? How are these things connected? Is it something I brainstormed, or did I copy this list from another source? Why didn't I put any sort of heading on it, knowing (as well as anyone can know themselves, I suppose) that I wouldn't frigging remember anything about this within a week of penning it? It is a total mystery and completely infuriating.
And so, I return to the world of blogging to beseech all of you - my dear readers - to tell me, based upon the list I've included for you below ... what is this a list of? Why did I make it? Of what possible use was this list going to be to me? Because though it is in my handwriting, I have absolutely no recollection of thinking about it or writing it down ... and it's driving me nuts.
Without further ado - "The List":
If you cannot view the above picture, "The List" reads as follows:
1. picnic table
2. purse
3. candy jar
4. bookend
5. building block
6. birdhouse
7. piggy bank
8. desk organizer (?)
9. vase/planter
10. Halloween candy collector
11. drawer dividers
12. magazine stands/rack
13. a really tall hat ?
14. Kleenex keeper or toilet roll keeper
15. a really hard pillow
There is no title; there are no notes other than these numbered items, and there is nothing written on the back of the page. I am completely stumped as to when or why I made this list of seemingly unrelated things.
You know, if I was going to be possessed by an evil spirit that caused me to write something in my own handwriting that I had no recollection whatsoever of writing, I had kind of hoped it would be something more along the lines of "The body is buried in Greenwood Park" or "Beware men with red hair unless you wish to DIE" ... but I guess my automatic writing was just me being distracted, not any message from the beyond.
Anyone who comments on this with an appropriate explanation (and yes, of course I alone determine "appropriate"!) will receive a surprise gift in the mail as a token of my thanks. (You will have to give me your address for me to do this, as my list-making mania unfortunately does not extend to anything so organized as an up-to-date address book. Ahem.) I'd love an explanation for why I took the time to make this list, and I just can't come up with one. Since I discovered it here at work, I've been carrying it around in my wallet. I take it out and look at it at least once a week, but no bells have rung.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. Really. Help me solve the mystery, or at least make up a lie palatable enough to make me stop thinking about it!
I found just such a list about a month ago, hanging around on a mini legal pad that I use at work for all sorts of odds and ends. I can't remember writing this list, and there was no title at the top to help me figure out what in God's name I was thinking while I composed it. It is, quite simply, just another list in a long list of lists, but I keep coming back to it because I can't figure it out! Why did I make this list? How are these things connected? Is it something I brainstormed, or did I copy this list from another source? Why didn't I put any sort of heading on it, knowing (as well as anyone can know themselves, I suppose) that I wouldn't frigging remember anything about this within a week of penning it? It is a total mystery and completely infuriating.
And so, I return to the world of blogging to beseech all of you - my dear readers - to tell me, based upon the list I've included for you below ... what is this a list of? Why did I make it? Of what possible use was this list going to be to me? Because though it is in my handwriting, I have absolutely no recollection of thinking about it or writing it down ... and it's driving me nuts.
Without further ado - "The List":
If you cannot view the above picture, "The List" reads as follows:
1. picnic table
2. purse
3. candy jar
4. bookend
5. building block
6. birdhouse
7. piggy bank
8. desk organizer (?)
9. vase/planter
10. Halloween candy collector
11. drawer dividers
12. magazine stands/rack
13. a really tall hat ?
14. Kleenex keeper or toilet roll keeper
15. a really hard pillow
There is no title; there are no notes other than these numbered items, and there is nothing written on the back of the page. I am completely stumped as to when or why I made this list of seemingly unrelated things.
You know, if I was going to be possessed by an evil spirit that caused me to write something in my own handwriting that I had no recollection whatsoever of writing, I had kind of hoped it would be something more along the lines of "The body is buried in Greenwood Park" or "Beware men with red hair unless you wish to DIE" ... but I guess my automatic writing was just me being distracted, not any message from the beyond.
Anyone who comments on this with an appropriate explanation (and yes, of course I alone determine "appropriate"!) will receive a surprise gift in the mail as a token of my thanks. (You will have to give me your address for me to do this, as my list-making mania unfortunately does not extend to anything so organized as an up-to-date address book. Ahem.) I'd love an explanation for why I took the time to make this list, and I just can't come up with one. Since I discovered it here at work, I've been carrying it around in my wallet. I take it out and look at it at least once a week, but no bells have rung.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. Really. Help me solve the mystery, or at least make up a lie palatable enough to make me stop thinking about it!
