The Best Laid Plans

Oh, I had so many plans for this "staycation." A few of them got accomplished - the insignificant ones. I wonder if you can guess from my list what I did. I say "did" because its all over now. And that 2 weeks was simply a blur. I was decompressing from several months of poor sleep, environmental frustrations (aka dirty, cluttered, in-need-of-repair-and-updating house), 12-14 hour work days, no time with friends or family, and barely enough time to sit on the pity pot because of it. So here was my "to do" list.

• Read 3 books I've had in the "hopper"
• Strip the wallpaper from the dining room and paint
• Gather clothes for Goodwill and take them in
• Fall pond and yard clean-up
• Scrub the floors
• De-cobweb - all the way up the 19 ft ceilings
• Start my "Read the Bible in a Year" project
• Bring in Sam and Harold for the winter
• Exercise every day (get tennis shoes out of Goodwill bag first)
• Have lunch with several people I've put off for a long, long time
• Find some bargain clothes so I don't stare at the same rags every morning, some which my daughter wore in junior high
• Shop in Des Moines for a Mother of the Groom dress
• Bond with my puppy who is nearing the Rainbow Bridge
• Take my screens down
• Get all the broken window shades fixed
• Clean out and organize the deep freeze
• Cook and freeze lunches for the next few weeks
• Get the rental house rented
• Wash all the sheets on the kids' beds and clean their rooms for the next visit
• Search and gather items for consignment
• Help with the "Honey Do" list that has been ongoing for 11 years

We Plan, God Laughs (great book!)

Tea tonight: Good Earth green with lemongrass