I like that qualifier "some", Besame*.

- Some laundry
- Try to finish holiday cards
- sleep

and that's it!

– more calls to family to make sure everyone is inside and safe
– make more canna butter and body butter, maybe
– start writing holiday cards (some are late, bad girl)
– start writing thank you cards
– work on some crafts
– make some Emerald Bliss smoothies to last a couple days
– praise one of the littles ones for making her bed each day
– thank my lucky stars

- take care of the doggo
- grocery shopping for Christmas Eve dinner
- pick up last minute stocking stuffers and some more wrapping paper
- send a late Christmas card to my Aunt Sue
- deep clean guest bathroom

It's just me and Brittany for the next 24 hours or so - the fam is out doing Christmas stuff. That's just as well, I can blast some alternative Christmas tunes (think the Pogues and Sting and the Waitresses) while I do the following:

- finish cleaning the guest bathroom
- clean the kitchen
- call my Mom
- wrap presents
- prep tomorrow night's dinner

and then B and I will finish watching The Nightmare Before Christmas before we snuggle down in our beds, while visions of sugarplums dance in our heads.

Make fast food type tartar sauce
Wrap presents
Finish laundry
Cut up stacks of old T-shirts too worn to donate to use for things around the house like dust cloths and more.
Do the dishes
Drain then scrub and disinfect the bathtub. I filled it just in case because of the bad weather, forgot about it, then walked in to find Monte drinking out of it. Or at least trying. Not from the tub where there's water in abundance but from the faucet with barely a drop coming out. Okay then so it's been established, Survival Kitty you're not. I kind of figured as much the day I found him trying to hide behind some cardboard boxes large enough to cover up most of him but left his ears sticking out. I wanted to believe it was a one off and give him the benefit of the doubt but... Yeah well I love you anyway I told him.

- Unload and reload the dishwasher
- Wrap presents
- Fill stockings
- Check in with some people and wish them a Merry Christmas
- Hang up Christmas cards
- Mix up a couple of appetizers and prep for oven
- Take care of the doggo

Not much … will talk with family and watch movies.

– Work on income taxes
– Make some canna oil and salve
– Exercise
– Write a thank you card

to do list
 

-laundry
-dishes
-call my twin
-watch Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker
-pick up thyroid meds
-make cornbread to go with beans and rice
-pay bills
-start taxes

Everyone who's starting their taxes: Good for you! I can't even think about that yet.

- change sheets
- laundry
- prep dinner for next few days
- clear a path in my bedroom - I've let it get very cluttered in there since Christmas

- change sheets and do laundry, because I didn't get those done yesterday
- gather up trash from around the house
- pick up all of Brittany's confetti, although I might need a rake - it's like leaves everywhere. I suppose I could try to stop her, but she loves it so much that I can't bear to.
- work on an arts and crafts project

More housework. I have appointments with two social service workers coming up and I don't want either of them thinking J isn't taking good care of me. I don't know why they always suspect that. It's like I told the last one - Of course she isn't abusing me. If she was why would my son still be walking around unharmed? I mean he's the one who picked her. I'm not going to punish her for his faults.

Clean the hallway carpet. <sigh>

On my agenda today.
 

Hey nh I hear ya bud. I bought what I thought would be my last buy and got used van and paid cash. Done, lol. Thats good thinking or so I thought. Van has given me not 10cents worth of trouble. As you know you lose a huge chunk of cash on whatever vehicle you buy if it is new. Hope you are doing ok my friend. Like said before I need to get down there to see you or you pop up here for a week. Anyway take care of you .

my agenda today got me groceries and a much needed haircut.

Good luck car shopping! I've had the same thought about getting a used Subaru Forester or an Outback, and how it will probably be my last car.

I also had a similar thought about my dog - how she will probably be my last dog. :|

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Today I have to:
- go to the grocery store on Valentine's Day :( because I forgot to purchase 2 cards instead of just 1 (thank goodness I remembered 2 gifts, I just forgot the card, it's Old Timer's disease)
- make dinner
- be home when the Orkin guy comes
- be home when Amazon Fresh delivers groceries (on the day I'm going to the grocery store; I know, it's ironic)

- Cook 3 meals with my Mom's "help". Breakfast is going to be a frittata with pasta, meatballs, tomato basil sauce and whatever veggies I can find.
- Watch TV with Mom.
- Keep Mom entertained.
- Make sure Mom and I both take all our meds on time.