30 Days of Lists - March 2015

I sort of failed at 30 Days of Lists in December. Once the excitement of the project wore off, real life set in. December is a crazy busy month. I still have the prompts for December and can pick it back up any time I want.

For now, though, I am concentrating on their new project: 30 Days of Lists in March. Anyone is welcome to join and follow along. When you join, you gain access to a private blog and private Facebook group page.

Today is day one. So far, I have made a cover and my list for Day 1. (Actually, I have made lists through Day 3, but the one cardinal rule of the project is not to post a day’s list before the day’s prompt is released. While the full list is available ahead of time, some people like to be surprised with each list on the day it is meant to be posted. I happen to like to be able to plan ahead, if I have time, or to "wing it" if I don't have a lot of time. It's a good project to work on while I'm streaming comedies on Netflix or Hulu Plus. Currently, I'm watching Bruce Almighty. And while I plan to make my lists daily, I plan to blog them about once or twice a week.

One beautiful thing about this project is it can be done on actual paper or digitally. I'm doing it on my cellphone, using various apps. These were done with Pic-Collage on an Android-operated phone, and this is currently my go-to scrapbooking app.

The cover for my project is not meant to represent any lists to come. It is meant to represent the end of winter and the beginning of spring. And I am so ready for spring, since this is the sixth weekend in a row that we've had a snowstorm. As the cover says, I am so done with this endless winter.

The prompt for Day 1 was "why I make lists." I have always made lists, mainly to-do lists and lists of things I want to remember to say in meetings and during phone calls. I need to make myself scripts of sorts to avoid becoming tongue-tied. This project raises list making to an art form. Some lists are just plain fun.