I hate the phone!

At work a majority of my day is spent on the phone, making calls. I try to get a hold of people in hopes they will talk to me on the record and possibly give me a story idea.
This excessive phone use means that when I'm at home, I want to spend as little time as possible on the phone. I'd rather text, e-mail or send message by pigeon. Each weekend I make a point to call my parents and maybe my sister (if she's lucky!). Sometimes I may call the grandparents.
But when planning a wedding I soon realized that making phone calls is part of the deal. A few weeks ago I was making numerous calls after a miscommunicaton over hotel rooms.
Now I have so many calls to make that I've made a list. I have to call the DJ to bug him to send me a copy of the contract, call the dress shop about bridesmaids dresses, and call to confirm honeymoon reservations (that one I realized as I typed this).
Not to mention that I have to make three doctors appointments (general, eye and dental), refill a perscription (over the phone because I lost my password for online), and change Eli's name on our mortgage (they have him as Eli Petrie... this change should have been made long ago, but it didn't happen).
Of course, I could farm some of this out to Eli. But any of you who know him know he's a bit worthless over the phone (sorry Muffin but it's true!). He tends to talk in circles and confuses even himself about why he's calling.
Being that I'm on the phone all day at work, I'm direct and make the call as quick as possible.
But man I hate it! A two-minute phone call always ends up taking 10 minutes.
So I've made a list of all the calls I need to make. It has 11 items and I will do one a day. I will start that list tomorrow.