I am laughing out loud alone in my living room, while simultaneously wiping tears from my eyes:
Catherine Newman’s blog today gets it again. I am thinking of to-do lists past and present, which speak to the same schizophrenia I have referenced before with regard to the contents of my (enormous) bag or my music taste:

pick up drycleaning
buy organic milk
meeting with GSB private equity career liason
post on ebay
meetings w blackstone, carlyle, TPG and bain equivalents
get choos re-soled for party on friday
reference check on candidate
headhunter bakeoff decision?
yoga
trunk show for gracie – matching outfit with whit for pictures?
paint color for hall
manicure
read PE report matt sent
circulate CES board minutes
PPLM guest list?
order monogrammed towel for new baby Brennan

etc, etc, etc. I’m pretty sure this wildly divergent list of interests and demands is a universal thing, whether or not one has children, a husband, a job, blah blah blah. It’s just plain entertaining, regardless. I’ve also learned about myself that I’m actually happier and more satisfied when I have a multitude of flaming torches (as per Catherine’s analogy) in the air, and things get rocky mostly when I’m bored. And I am a defiant list person. I’ll never forget my friend Lindsey Wetzel from Exeter, who once said the key to any good to-do list was to have something on there you would DEFINITELY get done, like “brush teeth.” That made me laugh and still does. I’m not afraid to write something on the list and immediately cross it off, post-facto, as Catherine describes doing.

In other news, Matt is obsessed with his new ipod and insists on walking around the house wearing headphones and listening to it. I feel like I live with a surly teenager. Nice preview of things to come.

PS Catherine’s column from last week about a 3 year 11 month old two year old is pretty hilarious too. I’ve got one of those sometimes-still-a-toddler animals running around here too.

PPS, see photos from this mac’s built-in camera … Kara says this is what we’ll use to SKYPE? I can’t wait!!