to-do list after another of my sister’s wedding showers

It may, perhaps, seem lazy to use this format for the second time in three newsletters. But to-do lists are perpetual. To-do lists are everlasting. To-do lists are prolific; I am constantly writing and editing one. Furthermore, hermit crab essays (in which an essay takes the shape of some other type of writing, like a to-do list or a how-to manual or a choose-your-own-adventure story) are such a fascinating and fun form of creative nonfiction to write.

Close readers may notice that some items on my to-do list persist.

☑ write scene to share during my writing class

☑ tell strangers I’ve just met that I got married in a bookstore

☑ finish writing/revising my book

☑ my sister Cayden’s second wedding shower

☑ take wooden butterflies to color

☑ make a second batch of cornflake goodies because my mom said one batch wouldn’t be enough

☑ pick up pink balloons

☐ ensure balloons have enough helium to float and hold up photos

☑ ask Cayden and Micah questions such as “who is more stubborn?” and “who looks cuter today?”

☑ eat several white chocolate Oreo balls made by my sister Ashtyn

☑ make it safely back home (and find Loui’s favorite parking spot still open at 10 p.m.!)

☑ give dinner to cats who had been feeling abandoned

☑ print and proofread my book

☐ finish journaling about the month of March

☐ journal about the first two-thirds of April

☑ submit my book to publishers

☐ go out for celebratory dinner with Loui

☐ rest

☑ write newsletter