Nope, it' not an angry rant, as the title of this post would suggest. Instead, I thought it might be worth mentioning that it is now officially just 64 days until Christmas; which subsequently means that there are only 34 days until the international packages need to ship out.
After spending much of the last holiday season either in a blind panic or up to my elbows in last minute preparations, I vowed that this year, I would work year-round, one gift, project, or hand-craft at a time, so that by the time that Thanksgiving rolls around I can just sit back, relax, and do some rather cliched - yet fun- activities like baking cookies and decorating the tree.
All of this rather begs the question, where am I now? As of January 1, we had 59 people on our list. At present, 24 have been checked off my list, and 9 of these people's gifts are alread wrapped. Three hand-knit pieces are half-way done and bits and pieces will wrap up another 13 people - which I think I'll have time to wrap up this week, if not this weekend. That gets us over the half-way mark, with 31 days to go before Thanksgiving. I've pawned three people off on Chad, and know what I'm going to do for another 9 people. That just leaves 10 people to check off the list, which is less than three per week. All in all, I think that's pretty good.
PS - Becky - the count is 27 out of 36.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Back In Black
Well, more like white and chrome; but I digress.
It's official. We finally have a computer at home again. I now have to figure out how to use it, and we of course didn't wait for the new software release, which surely would have been advisable - but what the*%$#, we have a computer. This hopefully means that the blog is back in action.
We survived vacation. Keira was a star, and even though we pretty much broke every toddler rule in existence, we are here to tell the tale. We're now entering the holiday gauntlet, and next week the remodel ball is officially rolling.
Since photos apparently are worth a thousand words, I'm hoping that these snippets from the road will make up for about 3 months of blog posts!
and more to come - once I learn how to use this cursed computer.
It's official. We finally have a computer at home again. I now have to figure out how to use it, and we of course didn't wait for the new software release, which surely would have been advisable - but what the*%$#, we have a computer. This hopefully means that the blog is back in action.
We survived vacation. Keira was a star, and even though we pretty much broke every toddler rule in existence, we are here to tell the tale. We're now entering the holiday gauntlet, and next week the remodel ball is officially rolling.
Since photos apparently are worth a thousand words, I'm hoping that these snippets from the road will make up for about 3 months of blog posts!
and more to come - once I learn how to use this cursed computer.
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