Yep, Thanksgiving is this week. May the stars help us all.
It's actually not that bad. We're going to our friends house for dinner, so I don't have to cook everything this year. Only about half.
Today I planned out my week. I also planned out the five weeks after that. Well, four weeks, because the only things in the fifth week are Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and I plan to spend both on the couch. All this planning beyond one week in advance gave me an ear worm.
Five weeks beyond.
Let's see how this is shaping up:
This week
Sunday -
Monday -
- Make Kitty's lunch x 7
- Make dinner boxes x 4
- Set up the antenna & the Roku to see the parade (belt and braces, missing the parade makes me cry)
- Wash Kitty's closed for work
- Fold at least some of the laundry
Tuesday -
- Make cranberry sauce
- Bake a pan of cornbread
- Clean the bathroom
- Wash the towels
- Fold any unfolded laundry
- Have my therapy appointment
- Make pie crust
- Chop vegetables for stuffing and squash gratin
- Go to PT
- Re-jigger Thanksgiving apron (totally a maybe)
Wednesday -And at some point probably go pick up my glasses. Moving forward:
Thursday -
- Make pie
- Make Apple/Butternut/Leek Gratin to cheese topping (because we must have too much food)
- Cook stuffing veg
- Cook stuffing sausage
- Toast cornbread
Friday -
- Watch parade
- Make stuffing
- Pack up and head out
Saturday -
- Make burritos
- Catch up on laundry
- Change bed
- Decorate for Christmas
Four weeks before Christmas -Oh yeah, and I still have her gifts to finish. I'm just going to tell myself they're not behind.
Three weeks before Christmas -
- Therapy
- Dental surgery
- PT
- First Friday
- Festival of Trees
- Do the gift shopping
Two weeks before Christmas -
- Therapy
- PT
- Make triple chocolate cookie dough & freeze
- Make oatmeal cookie dough & freeze
- Make peanut butter cookie dough & freeze
- Craft fair & Jacksonville Victorian Christmas
One week before Christmas -
- Therapy
- PT
- Make lumberjack cookie dough & freeze
- Make sesame seed cookies
- Bake batches of frozen cookies for gifts
Christmas Eve -
- Appointment with new endo
- PT
- Make pumpkin spice cookies
- Bake more frozen cookies & send to work with Kitty
- Make nut horns
- Pick up remaining cookies from bakery (I do not do these as well)
- Help Kitty through actual surgery (Yes, I just said that) & pour onto couch
- Wrap any finished gifts
- Bake remaining freezer cookies for us, unless we save some for New Years
- Kitty will still be occupying couch
- Order Chinese feast
- Set out small fuckton of cookies
- Curl up in flannel
- Read books
- Watch movies
- Game
I'll put up recipes as I go. It will give me something to blog about.
ETA: And then we found out my Mother-in-law might have cancer. Tests are forthcoming. May the stars help us all.
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