Take Home Tuesday with Diana Orgain!

UPDATE: The winner of an autographed copy of BUNDLE OF TROUBLE is RTAKETA. Congrats! Please send your physical addy to contests @ knightagency.net (remove spaces). If the prize is not claimed within two weeks, we reserve the right to redraw names.

Thank you to the Knight Agency for inviting me to guest blog. One randomly selected commenter will win a signed copy of my debut mystery, BUNDLE OF TROUBLE: A MATERNAL INSTINCTS MYSTERY.*

BUNDLE OF TROUBLE is the first in my series. New-mom, Kate Connolly, receives a disturbing phone call – a body’s been pulled from San Francisco Bay, and the police think it may be her brother-in-law. Kate is dreading returning to the corporate world and decides a career change is just what she needs. After all being a Private Investigator isn’t that difficult, it is? They just ask a bunch of questions…right?

In her busy world Kate uses to-do lists to track items. I’m a list maker, so this made sense to me. In fact, on my to-do list today was:
1. Write blog post for The Knight Agency.
2. Find babysitter for Saturday night.
3. Get uniforms for Kindergarten.
4. Put together workshop for Wednesday.
5. Set up signing in Oakland.

Let’s see – I did the first one – the blog post (well…um…I’m doing that now). And I did call the babysitter, but I won’t cross off my list until I know it’s done. My daughter starts Kindergarten on Thursday – so I have…I have tomorrow! Yes, I will do that tomorrow because Wednesday I have a workshop (which brings us to number 4) and number 5 doesn’t have a timeline so you can probably guess when that will get done.

I’ve tried to use a calendar feature on my computer but the “snooze” button on it is too convenient – I can just basically ignore the reminders until the pile up and up.

Any ideas out there? How do you manage your busy to-do list? Is it like mine and Kate’s where work life and home live cross-over? Do you have just one list or do you keep separate lists?

Would love to hear from you!

For more information on Diana, visit www.DianaOrgain.com!

*The winner will be announed tomorrow morning in this post. Today, Take Home Tuesday is restricted to U.S. and Canadian residents.