Genesis 2:4ff

I think that it was interesting that God created man (Adam) BEFORE he made the garden to put him in. My father once asked in order to illustrate this point, "Did God put Adam on a shelf while he planted the garden?" But you know I am glad that God created man first of all, not setting it all up and then creating man. It shows that Adam was first on God's priority list, first in his heart. Maybe I'm being sentimental here but I like that God doesn't seem to be a kind of Martha Stewart (though I love you Martha!) planning everything out ahead of time, superorganization, micromanaging and all that. Is God is laid back in a way that the subtle serpent is not?