Who you calling a pig?

I found this little essay in my draft folder.  I tried looking back to see if I posted it under a different name or added to a ramble I was already rambling about!  I couldn't find it so I'm posting it today.  

I'm running a little experiment right now and I am my own guinea pig!  The results are not in yet but I wanted to give you, dear Grainiac, a head's up.

Most of you know I'm really spontaneous.  Lists scare me and most of the time I   throw them away   (ahem) lose them.  For a new year's goal I decided I would NOT make lists.  I do, however, make a list for Hubby when he goes grocery shopping, otherwise we'd be out of toilet paper...like always!

I am happy to report that so far my un-list is going along splendidly.  Here is the Un-List in a nutshell: when I think of something that needs to be done, I do it immediately.  For example, I have been "thinking" about cleaning off the kitchen counter- you know, that hot spot that keeps accumulating junk!  In the past I'd put it on the list of things that needed to get done.  That blasted list kept getting longer and longer and I was so overwhelming that I chose not to get to it (the list, I mean).  Consequently nothing was really getting done.  In my new Un-List mentality, the other morning I thought about that kitchen counter and bam....cleaned off (and no, I didn't pick up the junk and move it to a different location--I know you thought that's what I did!!).  I took the 10 - 15 minutes to go through all the papers and put away all the knick-knacks that didn't belong.

Do you have a "going against your grain" idea?  Send it to me. 

So here's the update.  I must have started this un-list closer to the new year rather than the end of that year!  I always start out gung-ho (you know me!) and life gets busy and things start taking precedence and well, I forget.  Yes, as shocking as that may sound (stop laughing!!!), I do start things and don't complete them.  Thankfully I have this blog to go back and see what I've been working on or not working on.  It is my journal.  So in keeping things real, I took a picture of aforementioned counter top!

Don't judge! I'm weak, I tell ya