Arrrgh!!!

Dear Husband and I will be flying to Florida tomorrow for a long weekend. DH is going to play in the Charity Golf Tournament named for his son. I will be swanning around in a golf cart, shouting encouragement.

Do you know how difficult it is to decide what you'll need for Florida the last weekend of February, when you live in the Chicago Suburbs? I ordered a few things from catalogs, and picked up a few things on Tuesday. I was concerned that I didn't have a windbreaker until I saw the weather report for the Orlando area. It's going to be in the upper seventies, with a possibility of rain on Sunday. That's one less thing to pack!

Dear Husband has learned that I can't share a suitcase with him unless we're only going to be gone for four hours. I generally need to have the entire house with me when I travel. Cop Car and I were talking about making a trip to England and Scotland last year. It's probably just as well it didn't pan out. She said she never packs more than she can carry. It occurred to me that she might not carry my suitcase for me...

My-Sister-The-Nurse is going to stay with Elegante Mother while we are away. She hopes that she will be able to watch Oprah, read, go out to dinner and sleep a lot. I've left her a two page letter if information (I wouldn't think to "instruct" her), filling her in on the temperamental microwave, and the key situation. Thank goodness the phone was repaired today or that letter might have stretched to three pages.

I've had a list going for the past week of things I wanted to get done before we left. There's office stuff, house stuff, tax stuff, quilting stuff, cleaning stuff, shopping stuff....you get the picture. Monday, Edward Scissorhands went for his annual physical. The doc was satisfied, and said he could eat what he wanted to eat. EM and I saw the dermatologist Tuesday morning. I have to go back in two weeks. There's a precancerous spot on my nose that needs to be frozen. My dermatologist is the most wonderful woman. She understood that I didn't want to have a clown nose for this weekend, so we put it off for a bit. Dear Husband had his quarterly toof cleaning on Tuesday night (Oh, joy!). Tuesday afternoon, I did a little shopping. I picked up T-shirts, linen over-shirts, and soft pants, casual stuff all.

I rose at five this morning, cleaned the kitchen, and started laundry. I think I folded thirteen loads of laundry and put away all but two of them, which belong to our son. I have sensitive skin, so I very rarely wear something until it's been washed at least once. As things came out of the laundry, they were either put away, or folded to be packed. I have two over-shirts yet to iron, and three things to pick up at the dry cleaners tomorrow.

You know know you find things to do to avoid things you know you SHOULD be doing? I have this list of things I want to finish. I have very carefully buzzed my way through this list today, trying not to see: Replace the cat litter, Empty out the veggie bins, and pay the bills. My time is limited tomorrow before we leave, so I'll have to give up and do a couple of these tonight.

I'm going to pamper myself and have a pedicure tomorrow morning in return for getting those chores done! *G*

I hope you all have a safe, warm weekend. I'll stop by to see what you've all been doing when we get back on Monday.