It’s a thing I do. I am REALLY good at making planning lists. I make them all the time – I plan how and when I’m going to run, do yoga, write; I make meal plans, I make lists of things I’d like to do and places I’d like to visit. And then instead of doing and seeing and making and writing all those things, I make another list.

So here is a list of real life stories I’d like to put on paper. I had insomnia last week and all these great stories were running through my head so I made a list. Would you want to read any of these?

• telling Veronica that Kevin’s gay
• kismet road trip with Angeline
• out all night with Chaara
• being the surviving sibling
• the time I went camping alone and ended up reading Harlequins
• ladybugs on the beach
• eggnog at Christmas
• birdwatching biker
• my mom being the dirtiest Cards Against Humanity player
• how we’d walk out of class in high school
• when the cat ate my mouse
• how vividly I remember the one time my dad said he likes me
• the fight dad and I got in the day of my grandpa’s funeral
• why I opened the store
• what Paul was like in high school
• I thought everyone who lived in the city was better than me
• “I thought you were vegetarian”
• when your past bullies compliment you
• the times I’ve stopped to help road kill
• driving to Luciette Hot Springs with Andi and Hannah
• what I thought of rodeos as a kid
• family feud
• our short pot habit

I’m intrigued. I should really write those. If aspiring to be David Sedaris seemed like attainable goal, that would be the goal I’d pick, I think.

Note: some names have been changed.