Thursday, 1 December 2005

december to-do list

House and Garden

  • Cover the evaporative cooler
  • Keep the birdfeeder filled

    Yule

  • Stockings for Increase and ALD
  • Gifts for Increase, Emlet & Siblet, SFR, RED & ALD, RSH & SMW, BJWL & BDL
  • Stocking stuffers and gift for CLH
  • Stocking stuffers and gift for RDC
  • Write 2005 letter
  • Print labels
  • Design, print, sign, send card
  • Tree, 10th?

    Errands

  • Post office: Ship boxes to Haitch, Nisou, RPR, TJZD, RSH, BJWL, and CLH
  • Office Depot: cardstock, iron-on paper
  • Petstore: buddy pellets, maybe buddy present
  • Blood donation, 12th
  • Veterinarian, 24th

    Kinwork

  • Other bookgroup brunch au Central, 3rd
  • Scarf's babyshower chez Anna, 4th
  • Blossoms of Light with Anna &c, 16th
  • Yule party, 17th
  • Nelson's 50th, 18th

    Read

  • Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier; a Tale of Passion
  • Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter and Brighton Rock
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
  • David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas : A Novel
  • Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
  • Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone
  • Virginia Woolf, Orlando

    Moving

  • Bike to work if it's over 20 and not snowy or icy
  • Gym a couple of times a week

    06:06

    • bike

    Two 3.6-mile rides. I have to find a way to affix my headlamp to my helmet for the afternoon half. For the morning half, I managed to wedge my hands into both glove liners and full-finger bike gloves. It was 22 degrees and my fingers were still cold when I got to work, but not frozen to immobility and it only tingled instead of goddamn hurt as they warmed up.

    18:06