Forgive me this boring blog....

I'm swamped with the "It's-almost-Christmas-and-I-have-8 million-things-to-do-in-the-next-48hours-panic" that inevitably comes every year.
I'm also a total list person and am completely unable to function throughout the day unless I have 6 small pieces of paper telling me what I need to get done floating around my purse, car, pockets, Ayden's mouth, etc.
Forgive this boring post that will not interest you whatsoever, but I'm putting together a to-do list Blog, so that I can see it and look it every day and motivate myself. This stuff WILL be completed by Friday. No excuses.

1. Package and Mail Gifts to: Grandparents, My Parents, Steve Parents.

2. Package and Mail Client Order to Michigan.

3. Re-Order damaged portion of client order and mail to Michigan when it arrives.

4. Package and deliver 2 local client orders.

5. Buy Cat food and feed the poor cat, who hasn't had food since yesterday afternoon. Hopefully this will be accomplished BEFORE Friday, for the cat's sake.

6. Finish Christmas Shopping for Steve and the Boys. And Casey. This is anxiety-inducing if I list out all the things still left to buy, so I'll just leave it at that and try to avoid the ulcer.

7. Buy the ingredients to make about 500dozen Sugar cookies to bake on Saturday afternoon, after A.J.'s gymnastics class. It's a Nowack Family tradition....the cookies, not the gymnastics.

8. Plan our Christmas-Day meal and buy all the stuff necessary to make it. This DEFINITELY will be done before Friday, in an attempt to avoid the madness at the grocery store the two days before Christmas. Speaking of Dinners...if you have a good recipe, send it my way. I was thinking we'd do turkey (since neither of us care for ham), or steve had suggested ribs. Just this morning I was thinking Duck sounded good. I've had it a couple times before and it's really yummy. Where the heck could I get a duck? Does Sam's Club have them? Hmmmm.......

9. Maintain the somehow-miraculously-clean state that my house is currently in so I don't have to RE-clean everything tomorrow for Book Club.


10. Frantically search the address book, computer black book, dayplanner, whitepages.com for the remaining 4 addresses/phone numbers that I simply cannot locate to send the last of the Christmas cards. Jan Wortz? Brad Wortz? Katie Minkner? Eric & Jodi Mikel? Are you out there?? Please, if you're reading this, send me your address and save me some Holiday grief......

11. Friday =Relax. Enjoy Christmas with my friends and my family. :)

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*disclaimer* this list may, and most likely will, increase in size at any time. Please do not be alarmed by this sudden change in blog appearance.

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Oh, and can I just say, that as I'm typing out this blog, I'm having a lunch of Tortilla Chips and Salsa. The Salsa is called La Mexicana Hot Salsa and it's got to be the best store-bought salsa I've ever had. It's in the frigerator section of the store - over by the produce, and it's TA DIE FOR. I just finished off the last of it, and I'm seriously considering drinking the 3 ounces of salsa juice that's left in the bottom of the container - it's that good. Yum. Try it.