And so it beginns

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 -

• 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

Monday -

• Make cranberry sauce
• Bake a pan of cornbread
• Clean the bathroom
• Wash the towels
• Fold any unfolded laundry 
• Have my therapy appointment

Tuesday -

• Make pie crust
• Chop vegetables for stuffing and squash gratin
• Go to PT
• Re-jigger Thanksgiving apron (totally a maybe)

Wednesday - 

• 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

Thursday -

• Watch parade
• Make stuffing
• Pack up and head out 

Friday -

• Make burritos
• Catch up on laundry
• Change bed

Saturday -

• Decorate for Christmas 

And at some point probably go pick up my glasses.  Moving forward:

 Four weeks before Christmas -

• Therapy
• Dental surgery
• PT
• First Friday 
• Festival of Trees
• Do the gift shopping

Three 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 

Two weeks before Christmas -

• Therapy
• PT
• Make lumberjack cookie dough & freeze
• Make sesame seed cookies
• Bake batches of frozen cookies for gifts 

One week before Christmas -

• 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

Christmas Eve -

•  Kitty will still be occupying couch
• Order Chinese feast 
• Set out small fuckton of cookies
• Curl up in flannel
• Read books
• Watch movies
• Game

Oh yeah, and I still have her gifts to finish.  I'm just going to tell myself they're not behind.

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.