Monday, December 24, 2007
Twas the day before Christmas
The day's activities...

1. Clean up hairball on the floor.

2. Wrap stocking stuffers.

3. Discuss Christmas dinner - when should prep cooking be done?

4. Get dressed.

5. Ignore headache.

5. Drive away in my santa hat with the top down.

6. Go home and find turkey roaster and gifts that I couldn't find yesterday.

7. Hope that the neighbor didn't notice my wreck of a house when she dropped off goodies

8. Remember after neighbor leaves that I didn't drop off their gift.

9. Run over with gift bag of cookies.

10. Buy scratch off lottery tickets for stockings.

11. Pick up rolls at bakery.

12. Get phone call to add rice to grocery list

13. Stand in really long line at borders to buy gift cards.

14. Start this post while in line. .

15. Pick up key for cat sitting.

16. Go to grocery store and try to maintain christmas spirit.

17. Wonder why entire families decide to (almost aimlessly) wander the grocery store together on Christmas eve. Decide its nice but completely against my "strategic strike" approach to grocery shopping.

18. Have two conversations with mom to discuss the color of greek olives.

19. Consider olive section again.

20. Play eeny, meeny, miney, mo and pick a jar of olives and another relish-type thing.

21. Find express checkout line and dash off to car.

22. Realize there is probably a package from amazon on my front step and head home.

23. Find amazon package, my fiber of the month from spunky eclectic (yay!), AND my mail sitting on my doorstep. Sigh, glad I went by, and grab my wheel. Then head to the post office on the way back to mom and dad's.

24. Reflect that this holiday season has been particularly disorganized for me.

24. Swear to do better next year.

25. Try not to laugh at this thought.

26. Take ibuprofin for headache and start cookin'.

27. Cooking is done.

28. Silver is cleaned.

29. Table is set.

30. Last minute knitting is done.

31. Wrapping is done.

32. Time for sleep.

Merry Christmas to all!


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