"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." Bernard Meltzer

To Do List: laundry, clean bathrooms, pay bills... the mundane tasks that fill the boring to do lists in a daily life! Kiah is continuously fanatic about his lists! When we were cleaning his father's house after his passing, we found countless lists. He never threw them away, never burned them, just filed them in an envelope labeled "lists". We throw our lists away.

Sometimes to drive my hubby nuts I will alter his list. Say for example we are going to Lowe's to buy painting supplies. Under the Go To Lowe's portion there will be paint-burnt brown, paisley pink and paint brushes, I will add toothbrush and taco shells. I am usually the one that has to carry the list, but when I alter the list I will leave it in the car, so he can grab it. It drives him nuts! However, he is catching on the last time he drove me to Safeway and told me to run in and get a toothbrush and taco shells!

I like to find ways to shake things up a bit. Kiah is not only a list maker but a fanatical planner. He has planned the last 20 years of our lives together. Seriously, from the birth and sex of each of our children to diagrams of paint color on what wall and with what brush. I have had an occasional say in things, like we stopped at 2 children instead of continuing on with 8 MORE and I said no to the purchase of a Harley Davidson. You know I am the party pooper in the family.

So when we go on our long morning walks and he starts with his "plan" which I really love, and moves on to me and "my plan" which I really hate, I start to consider ways in which I could alter the conversation. Usually it ends up in a verbal misfire, but... well... sometimes he laughs.

Here's a list of my favorite ways to alter Kiah's perfect world: Doodle hearts and flowers on his work's to do list; hide his to do list and replace it with one that has a list of favorite songs by Air Supply and REO Speedwagon; forget the list, alter his list; pretend to throw away the list; throw away the list; write nothing but toothpaste and tampons on the list and then send him into the grocery store; hide the remotes; tell him I want to work at Wal-Mart; buy rum and limes but no coke and tell him it wasn't on the list; When he starts to ask me about plans for the weekend, change the conversation to global warming; ask him where he would like to retire and agree with everything and my all time favorite when he asks me if I want a drink, reply no, and then drink 3/4's of his!

Okay so maybe most of them are pretty lame, but it isn't so easy to alter his world, because he is a pretty darn good planner. I wish I could work off a list. I have tried several times, but I find more ways not to complete the list, than items that are actually on the list! Anyway, Kiah's in the field, and I have to make lasagna... so I better go and list out the ingredients I need for my dish. All I can think of is red wine.... Does anything else going into lasagna?