It's a hard life

Today, a list of things that are difficult:

1) Painting a white wall white.
2) Enjoying a Steve Martin film.
3) Beating Crystal Palace away from home on Boxing Day.
4) Resisting the urge to stroke a cat's fur the wrong way.
5) Maths.
6) Knowing whether to put the washing out when the clouds are grey.
7) Putting on cuff-links.
8) Eating things at a dinner party that you can't stand.
9) Playing golf well.
10) Russian.
11) Discovering the people that are better than you at the thing you thought you were good at.
12) Drinking while laughing.
13) Sneezing while driving.
14) Using the self-service tills in Tesco.
15) Remembering your own mobile number.
16) Threading a needle.
17) Hand-washing clothes.
18) Resisting picking a scab.
19) Watching Crazy Frog, Mr Blobby and the Teletubbies get to number one in the charts.
20) Feigning interest during a longer-than-expected photo slideshow.
21) Deciding which number to end my list of 'things that are difficult' on.
22) Still getting asked for ID when buying wine at a supermarket.
23) Making decisions.
24) Wondering whether it would be clichéd to stop my list at number 26, as if I had a difficulty for every year of my life.
25) Resisting putting your own name into google every few months.
26) Ironing.
27) Moving on from your favourite number always being 27.
28) Seeing my follower count at '2' but not knowing whether there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, out there reading these words...
29) Not checking email every five minutes - or less.
30) Feeling irritated at yourself for ending on a round number rather than taking the bold step of finishing on 31.