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"I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t had an official First Day of School since 2003 (the first day of my ill-fated attempt at grad school), but I still like to use back-to-school time as a time to regroup.I hope in a month my to-do lists have as many check marks as his! So in honor of back-to-school 2009, let&amp;amp;#8217;s re-prioritize with a little to-do list action. With the assumption that &amp;amp;#8220;short-term&amp;amp;#8221; is &amp;amp;#8220;in a month or less&amp;amp;#8221; and &amp;amp;#8220;long-term&amp;amp;#8221; is &amp;amp;#8220;anything longer,&amp;amp;#8221; here are mine: SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL TO-DOS: Roll over old 401K. From the job I left in October of 2008&amp;amp;#8212;Whoops! Review new credit report and clear up any errors. The more companies you do &amp;amp;#8220;business&amp;amp;#8221; with&amp;amp;#8212;credit card companies, banks, collection agencies&amp;amp;#8212;the more likely you are to have errors on your credit report. And I&amp;amp;#8217;ve done a lot of &amp;amp;#8220;business.&amp;amp;#8221; Send more money (for taxes) to Uncle Sam. Send in paperwork so freelance employers start paying my business instead of me. My accountant incorporated me a few months ago, which is kind of confusing, but I&amp;amp;#8217;ll extrapolate if you like. LONG-TERM FINANCIAL TO-DOS: Finish paying off remaining collection account by paying more than the minimum payment ($138) every month. (Balance = around $4,000) Finish paying off student loans by paying the minimum payment ($112.33)&amp;amp;#8212;but not more&amp;amp;#8212;every month. (Balance = around $2,000) Meet with my debt diet doctor. Figure out how much money I should be saving and where I should be saving it. SHORT-TERM MISC. TO-DOS: Finish two stories that are due today. (!!) Sign up for some volunteer work in September and October. Finish making my anniversary gift. Our anniversary was in July. We&amp;amp;#8217;ve put off celebrating. Luckily Rory is as laid back about this stuff as I am. Clean out the black pit of stuff that is the cat&amp;amp;#8217;s room. You&amp;amp;#8217;ll recall from this post that the cat technically has her own bedroom. Scrub algae from fancy fish bowl. LONG-TERM MISC. TO-DOS: Actually use the Rosetta Stone Italian DVDs that I sprung for. Make Petra some sort of wedding scrapbook-album thing. I love DIYing, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m not so good at starting and finishing projects that require gathering. This could take a while. I&amp;amp;#8217;m printing my list and tacking it on the frame of my chalkboard (Told you I love school supplies!) as a daily reminder. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s a handy little template you can copy and paste to share to-do lists. (I&amp;amp;#8217;ll check in next month to see what you&amp;amp;#8217;ve accomplished!) Go! SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL TO-DOS: LONG-TERM FINANCIAL TO-DOS: SHORT-TERM MISC. TO-DOS: LONG-TERM MISC. TO-DOS: More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow glamour_sexlove on Twitter. Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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