Saturday, November 18, 2017

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 - 
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.

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