I’m on fall break from school, and it’s a wonderful feeling. The weather has finally broken (by that I mean it’s not scorching outside 24/7) and I’m feeling pretty motivated.

For some reason 23 seems to be a good number to me, so here’s my list of stuff I want to do today or SOON. What’s on your list? Any fun stuff?

1. Post on BulgingButtons ( See what I did there? It’s always good to start with success!)
2. Eat apples and honey in honor of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year, which is today).
3. Get groceries, including apples and honey
4. Put away the clean dishes
5. Sort the laundry
6. Get my doctor’s appointment over with ( a follow up to my lovely twisted ovary situation from July, which, it occurs to me, I never wrote about )
7. Finish Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (it’s wonderful, I can’t believe I waited this long to read it)
8. Clear off my desk
9. SEW!
10. Get the laundry done
11. Shave my legs (TMI?)
12. Get a pedicure. I’m thinking orange for October
13. Go through the piled up mail
14. Collect the next batch of mail from the mailbox ( I don’t get there too often)
15. Clear off the kitchen island
16. Recycle a few boxes
17. Start the laundry
18. Make my bed
19. Create a menu for the week (this should be done before #3, of course)
20. Finish reading Ransom Riggs’ Library of Souls (from the Miss Peregrine series)
21. Read at least one of my teaching books that I have in my “to read” stack
22. Take the puppy on a nice long walk
23. Steam clean the bathroom floor (it was that or work on revisions to my manuscript…)

So you see I have plenty to do this week. Some of those items take a few minutes, some a few hours, and others a great deal longer (those darn revisions). At least I have a plan, sketchy as it may be.

How do you approach your “to do” list? Are you a list maker? I’d love to hear from you in the comments, and whatever you’ve got going on today, I hope it’s productive and makes you feel accomplished.