good schedule.  why does the library open so late?  because of the holidays?

 

you are doing awesome!  esp for not feeling well but even if you felt good that would be a lot!

 

i was trying not to eat sugar today but there was the contents of my purse dumped on the island from the movie and it was all kisses and dove chocolates so i ate them ALL plus a cherry candy cane.  now i feel ill.  why do i do that?  i honestly was being lazy in addition to glutonous - didn't want to figure out where to put them so i ate them.  ahh, pitiful

 

i have been working to get christmas packed up.  it's a lot of work even without all the little junk we used to have.  so far i have one tub of bags and boxes, one tub of christmas eve dinner stuff (kids' champagne glasses, tablecloths, paper goods, etc), a tub for the tree decorations, and a tub of miscellaneous stuff like drawings.  also two tubs of miscellaneous decorations and i need at least one more tub for decorations and to figure out what to do about all the things that don't fit in tubs like my pinecone basket and the larger reindeer i have plus scott's thingie he got that you light candles and the propeller spins and a couple of large boxes with glass decorations in them.  and that's not even touching the nutrcracker collection or village yet.  i have taken down all lights and wrapped them around a big piece of cardboard but i have a bunch of other inside lights to organize.  i also haven't touched the outside stuff yet.  not to mention the two huge hiking backpacks and misc stuff scott and the kids got for christmas.  and the stocking stuffers chane got - oh my!  i looked and it's a medium size gift bag full to the top - my MIL stuffs a big stocking for them too.  it's stuff like silly string and i don't know what all else.  i should probably just tackle it one-by-one because in the bag looking at it it's kind of overwhelming.

 

anyway i got the kitchen cleaned and swept.  the dining room table has decorations all over it and bags of tree parts (i bag each level of branches separately) stacked beside it.  otherwise both rooms are neat and clean altho the floor could use a good cleaning.  the playroom looks junky but it's probably not as bad as it looks - it's all stuff that requires decisions though.  plus a stack of cardboard that is recyclable.

 

b has a friend over and they are itching to get o nhere.  i need to go shower anyway and do my hair correctly.  i'm going to keep working until my living room and the playroom all look nice plus touch up the bathroom.  it's just my sister coming over and she's exactly like me only the pretty, sociable more "cosmopolitan" version so i know she doesn't judge but it would be nice to at least have the bathrooms clean (this is the sister who had  a party and my other sister and i got there early so we went in and cleaned the bad rooms she'd just closed doors to to help her out and the one whose bathrooms i went and cleaned about a month ago because i wanted her to do something with us but she was trying to get ready for company so she understands things getting yucky).

 

hope the kids and you are quietly resting and watching your movie right now!