My to do list is not shrinking. For every thing I cross off, I seem to add two more things and I only have one day left to get this stuff done… oy.
1) Wrap some presents. A lot of presents (so I don’t have to stay up til the wee hours on Christmas eve.)
2) Clean out the cold room to access the Christmas decorations (and find the bloody wintery clothes. I keep buying winter clothes because I’ve procrastinated this for so long. Not kidding.)
3) Do about five loads of laundry.
4) Make sugar cookies.
5) Clean Off My DESK for godsakes.
6) Go to Whole Foods.
7) Move stuff around in the fridge and small freezer. The doors are barely closing and once people start getting into them, it’s going to be chaos.
8) Figure out whether I’ve moved all of the files I need from my old laptop to my new laptop. Carbonite is not as friendly as I thought it was… sigh.
9) Find the Christmas movies and put them somewhere that the kids can access them but Buster cannot.
10) Find the extra sheets, pillows and blankets for the big kids and find somewhere to put them that Buster won’t eat them. hahaha, never happen (the latter part of that.)
11) Take a whole lot of trash out to the bin before the snow starts. It doesn’t look like we’re going to be hit as hard as originally forecast but there’s nothing worse than trying to fill frozen snow covered trash bins when you could have done them BEFORE they were frozen snow covered trash bins.
12) Get my car washed? Yea, I’d like to do that but I’m guessing I missed my window of opportunity and the car wash is not going to be open due to craptastic weather. Poop. I should just scratch this off the list now.
13) Figure out what time the kids are due to arrive — and get ready to start tracking their flights (which will no doubt be delayed due to craptastic weather.)
14) Convince Buster butt that people who come to visit are not going to kill him if he looks at them — or if they look at him. Gah.
15) Find a book to read, from my stacks, because I don’t seem to have any library books that interest me… thank goodness it’s almost time for some new reading challenges.
16) Find the three gifts that came ages ago — I don’t remember seeing them when I inventoried the gifts last week. Hell. Where did I hide those things?
17) Find the gift cards I brought into the house yesterday. Why didn’t I put them with the other gift cards? What was I thinking?
18) Visit Joy.
19) Run some caramel apples down to our landlord.
20) Yell at Buster for eating things he shouldn’t eat x20… which is what I’d best go do right now…
Why am I getting all itchy reading the list? Pass me the valium.
I’m thinking you need a you day. Schedule one.
Oh Denise, I don’t even want to make a list. One thing is for certain, I’m not going anywhere today so I should be able to start tackling that damn laundry room. I should take a photo. Waiting till the last minute to wrap has it’s benefits, there is no second guessing if you got something for everyone… and what you got is staring at you. I’m at that uncomfortable stage post wrapping thinking “did I forget anything?”. I guess I should go make my list too.