Wednesday, 1 December 2004
december to-do list
House:
Make thresholds
Make triple-plug plate
Find kitchen rugs
Yule
Burn and mail photo CDs
Get tree
Finish RDC's stocking
Dad: shirt, True History of the Kelly Gang, peanut butter cookies, 2.75" golf tees
Mom: "Sophie's Choice,"...
Stepmother: chocolate-covered blueberries, ornament, turtle cookie-cutter, Falling Angels
Stepfather: share of a llama
CLH: stocking, other stuff, Catalog of Tackiness, stocking for Kitty. Wrap and ship!
RDC: Amazon. Cook's Mart. Stocking.
Emlet and Charenton: box to UPS
SFR: add strap to stocking; book;
Other hatchlings: books for RED, ZLT, CTL, ZBD
Garden
Rake, should the snow ever melt
Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)
Errands
Cobbler to reheel shoes (17th & Marion)
Order a half-cord of firewood.
Shop 8th evening.
Haircut 17th.
Kinwork and Lisaism
Work party 17th. Make cookies.
Formigny open house 18th. Cook and clean. Bake cookies. Mull cider. Scrub upholestry. Move couch. Borrow toys. Hide Booboo. Vacuum dead moths from ceiling fixtures. Wine and cheese. Wash windows. Peppermint bark? Change angle of star to face room better.
Write and print Yule letter
Design, print, and send Yule card.
Christmas Eve seafood dinner
Christmas Day something-or-other
New Year's Eve fireworks or other shindig
Reading:
Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten. Still on the list because it is just another, probably even formulaic, Thursday Next novel, and therefore not a priority to me, but it is a priority because it was lent to me. Fast read though.
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Rudyard Kipling, Kim. My impression is that Anglo Kim is going to out-Hindu and out-Islam his Indian peers just by virtue--ahem--of being white.
William Styron, Sophie's Choice
Eudora Welty, Stories
Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons.
Exercise
Bike as long as it's over 25, and work on 20
Try walking to work.
Gym too
Walk three miles on bus days.