I don’t know if it’s the Catholic in me, the mother in me, the daughter in me or just the woman in me, but I spend a fair percentage of each day feeling guilty about one thing or another.

Whether it’s my reluctance to buy into purchasing organic products, the poison I pay a service to put on my lawn to keep it green that is probably leaching into my children’s drinking water, or that I am morally and ethically opposed to wet cat food although it would probably make her a lot less fat, I feel bad about a lot of stuff.

And so I made a list:

1. Cheating during spin class
2. Not drinking enough water
3. Drinking too much wine
4. Not doing Kegels
5. Hitting the snooze button
6. Not writing in my journal
7. Blowing off writing for sleep
8. Watching three episodes of “Scandal” in a row
9. Spending $300 every time I go to Target even if it’s just to return something
10. Not reading as much to my younger children as I did with their older siblings
11. Only getting past Chapter 2 of A Wrinkle in Time with my youngest child
12. The 500 pages left to read in Middlemarch
13. The brown sugar I put in my oatmeal
14. The half and half I put in my coffee
15. Knowing more about Kelly Ripa than Edward Snowden
16. The 20,000 (legit) emails in my work inbox
17. That my children had to live through a divorce
18. The amount of money I spend on my hair annually
19. All the unread books on my nightstand
20. Not sending birthday cards
21. Having a closet full of grey, black and camel-colored clothing
22. Those 10 extra pounds that climbed on for the ride a few years ago
23. That I don’t read the whole newspaper like I used to each day
24. Buying plastic water bottles
25. My carbon footprint
26. Leaving the water running while I brush my teeth
27. Not flossing every night
28. The half-finished sweater lying in my crawl space I never finished knitting
29. Wanting to be as thin as Kelly Ripa
30. Not cleaning the kitty litter box every day
31. Being freaked out by online dating
32. Making my kids feel like they don’t measure up
33. That I ever wished my kids would grow up
34. My  constant struggle with forgiveness
35. Judging a book by its cover
36. My big ego
37. My bouts with narcissism
38. Not going to Mass
39. Letting my fourth child off the Catholic hook
40. All the chicken nuggets and mac-n-cheese I’ve fed to my children over the course of 20+ years.
41. This list

What makes you feel bad? Tell me so I can feel better.