Monday Rambles

Okay....let's see:

Cat care arranged for?  CHECK!

Can't go away without making sure the boys will be okay.   My buddy Kosh is one clingy little kitty.

Brother gifts wrapped and in the mail?  CHECK!

I'm actually running early on this one.  Usually, I'm in line at the PO on December 22.

Shopping done?  CHECK!

I might pick another few small things for Keith, but basically, I am done.

Pet-sitting in progress?  CHECK!

Complicating things is the fact that I am not really at home this week.  Just running back and forth between home and the pet-sitting house trying to get things wrapped up.










Lovely Japanese dinner eaten on Friday?  CHECK!

Okay, this wasn't really on the list, but I had to share it, since the meal was so good.  This place makes the greatest tofu salad!

Booth stocked and ready for me to be away for a week?  ON THE WAY TO BEING CHECKED OFF

I need to make a couple of visits this week to get things really locked down, but it'll be ready when we leave.

Winning Christmas Booth Decorating Contest?  CHECK! 

This wasn't on the list either.  In fact, it came as a total surprise!  I hadn't even really been trying to win.  I was at first, but it seemed like it took me so long to get it together that I didn't think I really had a chance.  My trees sat bare forever.  Then all the big stuff sold and I was at a loss.  It's hard to decorate when your stuff sells, but I didn't want to have anything in my display that was not for sale.  To top it all off, I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to decorating. Or staging my booth.  Or making displays.  Or any of that stuff.  I lucked into this one!  But I'll take it!  A hundred bucks in free rent is nothing to sneeze at!

Choose reading for trip and pet-sitting?  CHECK!

I always pick out more than I can make it through, but I've got some mysteries, comics, and manga ready to go.

House cleaned and ready?  WELL, NOT SO MUCH!

I still have a bunch of stuff to get out of the house and into my storage space.  It kills me that I'm not done, but I finally had to concede that I wasn't going to get everything done.  I'll be off for a couple of weeks after we get back, so there will be more time for taking stuff over.  It's a real bummer not to get everything done.  I never seem to, so you'd think I'd be used to it, but

Secret Project initiated?  CHECK!

Can't talk about this one yet, but something unexpected happened over the weekend.  More details to come!

Christmas cards all scanned?  CHECK!

I'm done with setting up the vintage Xmas card posts, but I still have a few more to write.  I may only get one or two other posts up between now and Saturday when we leave.  

So how are your week before Christmas and/or your travel plans shaping up?

Monday Scrambles!

AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEE!

How did it get to be December 9?  That's almost the 10th, which is almost the 15th, which is almost the 20th, which is the day before the 21st, which is when we leave for Arkansas!  Estimation is deadly!

I still have soooooo much to do.  We finished shopping yesterday (mostly).  I got everything for my brother's family, anyway.  Now I need to wrap it and get it all in the mail.  One more thing to do!  Just great!

I still have tons to move to the booth storage, but I have to stop for a couple of days, because if I don't get that space more organized, I won't be able to get anything in it.  Someone bought my last tree yesterday, so I have to redo my display.  Overall, it's selling very slowly.  My gift items aren't selling at all.  All my wrapping paper is gone.

The Peddlers Mall is having its vendor open house on Saturday--one more thing to do!  But at least there will be food!  We had our holiday festival for shoppers this past Saturday....and got tanked by the weather.  Our poor Santa was wandering around looking bored.  I did get a lot of work done over there that day since it was so slow.

Saturday is also the day I go pet sit for a week---one more thing to do!  I'll be running home a lot because I'll need to get laundry done and things packed for us to leave.

We got blasted by the same weather everyone else got over the weekend.  It was cold and nasty.  I didn't have to work on Monday, but I'll have to make that class up--one more thing to do!  I did appreciate staying inside for a day and working on stuff at home.

Tomorrow, I have my first follow up at the cancer center--one more thing to do!  That means I'll be going in late to work, which means I have to get everything ready for tomorrow today.

Sigh!

I'm not sure about blog posts for a while---too many other things to do.  I've got vintage cards set for every day, so there will at least be those.  When I can get something else up, I will.  It may not be Christmassy.  It may not be coherent.  It may not be pretty.  But you can keep checking back to monitor the progress of my breakdown.

It's the hap-happiest season of all!

  

Monday Scrambles

It's been a really hectic day, and I'm just too wiped to think and write coherently.  I was sick most of last week, so I didn't get to work on Monday Rambles throughout the week like I normally do.  Taking all that into consideration, I'm postponing Monday Rambles (with its birthday wrap up) until Wednesday this week. 

Tomorrow, I'm planning on doing a political post.  If that's not your bag, just skip it and pick up with Wednesday's Monday Rambles.  There are some things I need to get out of my brain.