update on my to do list

I finished my Turkey Soup and I canned what we won't eat in the next couple of days
I did two loads of laundry ( I know this wasn't on my list but anyhow)
I stewed and canned one of my three pumpkins and then I ran out of mason jars (the other two will have to wait)
I'm baking pumpkin cake right now
I did kind of wuss out on dinner though (I let Joey chose and she almost always choses hot dogs) so we're having hotdogs for dinner.
The living room is uncleaned and unvacuumed.
I didn't even try to get back to the christmas ornaments I'm making but I may try to get on that after Joey's in bed.
I think that I was rather productive, now I just have to try and find time in the rest of the week to get the other things on my list done.  But at least the house is warm and full of yummy food smells.

Monday is my Saturday

What I mean by that is, I have Monday off of work and it's really the only day of the week that I ever get to sleep in.  It's also the day I tend to get most of my bigger projects done.  Here's my agenda for the day...
Take out all the trash and start throwing out more things we don't need: check
Use the last of our post t-day turkey: the soup is on the stove bubbling away
Bake something: i haven't even figured out what to bake yet
Stew and can remaining 3 pumpkins:
Can some of the turkey soup for a time when we're not sick of turkey:
Clean and Vacuum living room:
Finish priming our homemade ornaments: they're half done
Get Joey to eat something other than Granola bars and cereal today: so far no dice
Check in on the Senate 'discussions' regarding the tax cuts: we're really hoping that any agreement is made for our sakes


Wow, it looks like so much more than I thought now that I've written it all out.  Maybe I'll hold off on the baking project until tomorrow.  And I can always just watch Jon Stewart instead of Conan tonight.  I really hate that I have to choose though.  It was really nice when they weren't both on at the same time.  Boo to conflicting Cable programming.  Hmm, Decisions...decisions. Well, off to work on that list I suppose.  Tootles!

Craziness

So this week has been crazy. Joey's been in rare form. Nice one minute and a raving terror the next. We've officially decided to get rid of our kitty, Walfredo. She's a lovely kitty and I'm sure she'd be better behaved if she weren't being tortured during all waking hours. As soon as Joey's asleep, the kitty is all snuggles and cuddles. So if you're in the area and you're looking for a kitty, look no further.

We finally put up and decorated our christmas tree. It's absolute insanity. Joey is fascinated with it which was adorable until she started plugging and unplugging it and shoving it and breaking ornaments. And of course the kitty tried to climb it and keeps stealing the low ornaments (she carries them off and hides 'her' toys under our bed). I'm convinced she thinks she's a dog.

We made an advent wreath this year at with some of the other folks at our church. It was great fun. Joey got to glitter the pine cones and I got to be crafty and had fun making bows. It's so nice to have. And, the base, candle holders, pine cones candles and bows are re-usable so I can use them again next year as long I get more pine garland. It smells so nice too. It works out really nicely for us too since real trees are so expensive every year and the artificial ones are getting more and more realistic every year. We have a nice one but I think in a couple of years we'll be able to get one that really looks real. But with pets and children, I just think that real ones are a little unrealistic sometimes. But it is nice to have at least a little bit of something real and pine around.

I'm currently trying to figure out if canning broccoli would be a total bad idea. I never see broccoli canned in the stores but I have a bunch of broccoli that I bought in bulk and I am running out of ways to utilize it before it goes bad. I think I'm going to try and can it either today or tomorrow. I already froze 1/3 of the 2 lbs that I bought. And I cooked up or used another 1/3 of it but I still have 1/3 left to use up.

I'm still working on getting around to making up Christmas cards. I've found a few different different places with nice cards but I took some pictures that I liked and then they turned out all blurry when I tried to fix them up a bit. Maybe I'll just take some of our pictures from the past year and turn them black and white and go that route. Ugh, so undecided. Maybe I'm just over thinking it.

I did finally figure out something that I might like to go back to school for. I've been working on our church's quarterly newsletter at work and I've really been enjoying doing the layout and editing work. I'm now thinking that maybe I'd like to do either graphic design or english. I'm not sure what I'll decide on, but I probably won't actually decide until I find a school out in CO that I like and such of course. I love both writing and design so it's kinda a tough choice.

Well, I think that's all that's been going on with me for a past few days. So, tootles.