Thank you, Blogbound friends, for the well wishes in my time of allergenic hyperbole. I am feeling much better today after a fog-filled Thursday, Friday and Saturday existance – stumbling through life like a hungover partygoer without benefit of potent refreshment.
Now that I'm feeling better, I have a long list of things I need to do. Here's just some of it:
1. Decide where to spend me and the Filet's 5th wedding anniversary. It's in late April, but we probably won't get around to celebrating it until the following month. We're cash-strapped (you'll see why below), so it won't be a long or expensive trip. Maybe San Antonio, Galveston, a nearby bed-and-breakfast, or a virtually free weekend at her parents' lake house in Oklahoma.
2. Prioritize our Year of the Yard projects, including the removal of three trees, building flower beds, filling 'em with dirt and constructing secret drainage tunnels beneath the lawn. We also need a new driveway.
3. Prioritize our Home Improvement projects, including the finishing of the Neverending Bathroom Renovation, sprucing up the kitchen cabinets, painting/decorating the Filet's home office and pondering some floor purchases.
4. Organizing the garage.
5. Paying off debt (ha! Have you seen the items above? We'll be adding debt).
6. Convincing the Petite Filet that I NEED a kayak. Maybe I should start a paper route to pay for it.
7. Getting both of our bicycles working, buying helmets and (with a baby seat attached to one of them) riding as a family.
8. If No. 6, fails, convince the Petite Filet that I NEED my own personal Canon Digital Rebel. You know, using the paper's camera just isn't enough. Just think of all the great photos I could get of the Cutlet. No more having film developed. (Ha!) I'll even ditch most of my old film equipment. Please, please, puh-lease?
9. Oh yeah, remembering we need a new photo printer if No. 8 is going to fly.
10. Relaxing, because "stuff" doesn't make the world turn. People do. Or actually, God does, but anyhow. At the end of the day, whatever we have done or bought, all of it means nothing if we don't take time for the ones we love. I haven't forgotten yet, and I hope I never do. It was easy to let my toast get cold as the Cutlet pitter-pattered out to the kitchen this morning, big goofy grin on his face, wanting to be held. That was easy. I scooped him up and we made faces at each other. I hope when the choice is harder, I'll still choose him over whatever I'm doing. That's what life, and especially parenthood, is all about.
What's on your to-do list?
1. Call my grandmother sing Happy Birthday to her.
2. Hair Cut.
3. Buy a new printer for my new laptop.
4. Buy a digital camera to play on my new laptop (YES - I'm biting the bullet and FINALLY going digital).
5. Clean my apartment (Spring Cleaning) - time to donate 1/3 of all the stuff that's cluttering my tiny abode.
Glad you're feeling better.
No list here - That way I stand a better chance of not disappointing myself. But if I had a list, the children would be the number one item.
on my to do list is to book up a restaurant to go to in london with my eldest daughter and wife for my daughter's 'last few days of freedom before she starts school next month' treat.
we've going to the west end to see a musical and she is SO excited ! and so are we.
One word: TAXES.
I'm waiting to see if you can get the personal use digital Rebel, and if you can then I'm really going to pull out the big guns.
Who the hell came up with Debt No More in 2004?
A crackhead that's who.
Don't you love lists!?
I also have a goal to be debt free. Like you, life keeps getting in the way. Glad you are feeling better, and good luck on the projects, camera and kayak!
i am also fond of the phrase ' but i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it'!
followed by a cute and winning pout!
abs x