Things That Are Currently Hanging Over My Head

Don't you just love making lists when it comes to getting things done?  I adore the feeling of checking things off one by one, seeing the progress being made in a visual, hard copy form.  Without lists I do nothing but sit around watching My Fair Brady reruns and stuffing my face with Baked Cheetos (surprisingly delicious!). 

And so because I don't feel like discussing how bummed I am that we're not going to New York over the upcoming three day weekend because Colby is swanning around D.C. (waiting to possibly be deployed but mostly touring and going out to dinner a lot), and how for the fourth year in a row we won't be spending Valentine's Day together, I'm going to enumerate in fascinating detail the things that I will be doing this weekend to keep myself entertained.

1. FINALLY sitting down to go through the 1200 or so photos that were provided by our photographer to select 200 photos for the proof book, 75 photos for the flush album, and upload to Target's online photo store any others that I want to put in my scrapbook.  I've already gone through the pictures a few times to pick out favorites, but now I need to commit to our selection and get Colby's approval.  We've had the pictures since December 3, a mere, 10 days after the wedding, now it's time to get off my arse and do my part.
2. Thank you notes.  Yeah.  Sigh.  They're coming folks, I swear!  I kept waiting for Colby to be around to help out with them, but it appears that this is not in the cards for us any time soon.  And so thank you notes I shall write!
3. Send our dang wedding announcements to our hometown newspapers.  I've been putting this off because the announcement form for Colby's hometown basically asks that you write a novel about your wedding, and, um, I don't want to!  However, I know it means a lot to our parents to have the announcements printed, and in 30 years I'll probably be glad I did it.  I just really don't feel like describing every single person's attire, flowers, and blood type.
4. Book some of the Italy tours that I've been reading up on but putting off actually scheduling.  Specifically this one, because YUM.  I'll probably become homicidal if it's already booked to capacity.
5. I want to get at least another 20 pages of The Book written.  I'm hovering around 12,000 words right now, so I'm pretty proud of my accomplishment over the past month, but rather than banging out a couple of pages at a time, I'd like to sit down, get in the mood, and go with the flow for a few hours to see what comes out on the page.
6. Must, must, must go to the UPS store and ship back some returns as well as do a couple of in store returns.  I didn't get them done before my credit card cycle ended and so I am left with a much larger balance than I would have liked.  Bummer.
7. Maybe, if this warmer weather holds out, go for a run.  But probably not.

So, aren't you jealous?  Don't all of those things look SO FUN!  Wouldn't the majority of those things be so much MORE FUN if Colby were home?  And maybe to spice things up and make it a REALLY exciting weekend, I'll throw in a little dusting and bathroom cleaning!  Y'all I am so excited!  Bring it on President's Day, I'm going to make you my bitch!

Comments

[L the D]

Sounds like a fun weekend . . . and very similar to mine. Just swap Vegas for New York and add in playing Barbies for fifty million hours and I think you've got it.

[1218Blog]

Just think now you have an entire extra day this weekend to get all those things you really didn't want to do. Imagine how cranky you would be if you had to squeeze it all in by Sunday. ;-)

[Kateastrophe]

Uh yeah, it will be three years this May since my wedding and I still haven't picked out the pictures for the album. :)

Whoops!

You are WAY more on top of it than I am!

[La]

That's just about as exciting as every single one of my weekends. We're awesome!!

:)

[Anne]

Yep, I'm a list-checker-offer. I like lists and I like checking stuff off. That's a good list and full of things that I would most likely procrastinate on. :) At least you don't have to add 'Finish helping child scribble on Valentine's Day cards to daycare class'. Like they will even know what Valentine's Day is!!!

hugs,

[The Incubator]

Wow -- my little girl lives in a far away land that actually observes President's Day as something other than a White Sale at the local mall??? I think I shall go lie down now. I have not been able to celebrate a President since I moved to the land of magnolias and cotton!

[Larissa]

Eeek...wedding thank you's!

I knew there wasn't a chance that my husband was going to be of much help with that, so I finished those within 2 months of the wedding. Tip: have a galss of wine, turn on some music, and just finish those suckers :)

[Miriam]

Can I tell you something horrible? I only wrote thank you's to family members. I still feel terrible about it but now I think it's too late to go and write the others. Oh well :)

[Fraulein N]

You are one wild and crazy woman. Don't go having too much fun, now.

[Princess Extraordinaire]

I am a list-a-holic! Nothing gets done around her wihtout a good list being drawn up first!I am sorry your hubby won't be home for V-day - it sounds like your thre day weekend is completley booked and that you're going to be getting a load of stuff done - just think how great you'll feel on Monday!

[RisibleGirl]

I'm taking Friday off and not planning a THING over the four day weekend. I'm so excited to stare at walls, I can hardly contain myself.

I've downloaded 4 books onto my lil' device and plan to read most of them.

All whilst George Clooney is rubbing my back and feeding me dark chocolate.