Georgie curses herself for teaching Lucia the art of list-making. Now she makes lists of the schools she'd like to send her kids to if they had x amount of money and then a list of the ones they can afford. She makes lists of jobs she'd love, if she wasn't doing the following things, and then she makes a list of those following things, and her lists become hybrid and feral. In the end, they make Lucia paranoid about all the things she's supposed to be doing that she doesn't have time for, because she's making lists.
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
This is me with lists. It's why I had to stop myself from making them for a while. But I'm starting up again, kicking it all off with a List of Stuff I've Been Meaning To Do For Ages, that I will now have time for due to my nearly-unemployed state. Number 1 is vacuuming my bedroom floor. WOOOOO EXCITING LISTS.