Take time to plan my time. Check.

I finally downloaded the pictures from my camera onto my computer. It was a necessity. I got tired of trying to decide which pictures to delete when my camera began flashing "full" in the midst of a picture-taking event. I have so many pictures of my too-cute-for-words grand kids that I usually missed what I wanted to take a picture of because I couldn't let go of the ones already on my camera. Now I can delete with confidence.

Today is my day off work. Besides sprucing up the place a bit, I haven't known quite what to do with myself. Sounds silly considering that I could go a thousand different directions, and should. Which way to go and what to do, exactly, is my dilemma. I feel a little stymied by circumstances, if that makes any sense. I hate to waste precious time. I guess what we often forget is that it sometimes takes time to plan how we're going to make use of it.

I used to be a great planner. I'm still a pretty good list-maker, but only of necessities like groceries. (If you don't put Q-Tips on the list, they're probably not going to get bought.) I hate being at the check-out counter, or worse yet, to leave the store, only to realize I didn't buy the one thing I came to the store to purchase in the first place. A grocery list is a necessity of life. I don't know how people who don't keep a running list function.

The necessities of life...hmm. That's one list that is forever being amended, sometimes, without even realizing it. One day, you just become aware that the things once so important to you, just aren't that important any more. And the people and things that you had taken for granted up to that point, suddenly moved to the top of the important-to-me list.

As for planning this particular day off, I didn't do a very good job. I've accomplished a few, menial tasks that had to be done, but for the most part, I've just been introspective and indecisive. I'm over it and I'm OK with it...for this day, anyway. Besides, the day's not over. I'm about to grab my list and run to the store. I shall overcome my procrastination and accomplish yet another thing. It won't complete me, but it's something.