Back when life was simple

...my to-do lists resembled these:

(images via HuffPo)

Now they include:

• Find reasonably priced apartment in an unreasonably priced Bay Area neighborhood.
• Go grocery shopping.
• Cancel private health insurance. (This alone is a tedious task: For the reams of bureaucracy involved, no one's ever accused BlueCross of being efficient of all things. During my last year of coverage I couldn't even pay my monthly bill online; according to them it had to be done by check -- remember checks? -- through the mail. Welcome to the 21st century.)
• Pay bills.
• Get new tires for car (because all I really want to do on a sunny Saturday afternoon is spend time inhaling rubber vapors in Costco and Big-O Tires, looking for the best deal)
• Save some semblance of a down-payment for the start of my real estate empire my first house.
• Figure out how I'm going to conceivably own a Porsche 911 before my 35th birthday.
• Give Lola a haircut (which takes longer than one would think since her haircuts are somewhat akin to shearing a sheep.)
• Work.
  

Not as fun as eating ice pops, folding "close", and staring at this alleged Isaac fellow, but it could be much worse. I hope I never have to add "attend three rounds of chemo", "file for divorce", or "ask everyone I know for money because I'm broke" to my to-do list. Though my current list of priorities has changed drastically from the one I wrote at age 5 (the one that included "eat my tube of cherry chapstick") I'm happy with where I'm at. Some things are meant to change with age. This includes ingesting lip balm.