I’m off work until December 28th! This is the single greatest moment, right now, with 9 days of workless bliss laid out in front of me.
There are a lot of things I’d like to get accomplished during my time off in addition to the basics such as watching lots of TV, reading, and playing games. So far my list looks like this:
Tomorrow:
Get new strut mounts and oil change for the Jetta.Check out St. Charles’ holiday lights tour. This is their first year but some of the same families from the Halloween tour are participating so it should be good.Buy lotto tickets for our families and mail out care packages since we’re not getting together this year with my family. My mom has been sick and isn’t up to seeing anyone. :p
During the week:
Finish Christmas shopping for the kids. K is done, other than a few stocking stuffers, but E is a bit tougher this year.- Try and think of something, anything, to buy Joe. So far he’s getting absolutely nothing, not even a lump of coal, because he’s too hard to buy for. Damn him for not being materialistic like the rest of us.
- Put up Christmas tree and decorations because that’s right, we haven’t done that yet inside, only outside.
- Organize software CDs. They seem to be all over the house and we probably don’t even need half of them. I want to put them all in one place so on the rare occasion we need one, it’s not an exercise in futility.
- Submit medical receipts for reimbursement through our flex spending account. We have a good chunk of change in there that needs to be used so we don’t lose it.
- Visit Cosley Zoo to see their holiday lights, provided it’s not freezing outside.
Renew my driver’s license.- Check out a few local restaurants we’ve been wanting to try, namely
a Vietnamese bistro, a sushi place, and a steak place called Texas Roadhouse. Pull out my high school yearbooks and stalk old classmates on Facebook.And I do mean stalk because it’s less annoying than actually friending these people. I’m finding reconnecting with most of them is an exercise in disappointment. I love when I send someone a private message that they never reply to but they post idiotic status updates with grammar and spelling errors all over it, making me wonder if I dreamed the fact that we actually graduated together.- Schedule my annual “female” exam for some day in 2010 because I don’t want to go, but it’s one of those things that must be done.
- Put together an Evite for my birthday. I’m thinking of having a rollerskating party. Something different. Something half the invitees probably won’t show up to, but oh well, fuck it. I’m doing it anyway.
Check out the second run movie theater that just opened a few months ago. It doesn’t have stadium seating which has made me hesitant to go, but I’ll give it a chance for only $2 per person!- Read all the People magazines my friend gave me the other day. I haven’t seen her in months so the pile is quite impressive.
- Fix my blog so I can use a different template than this one.
- Post a best of 2009 entry for music and iPhone apps.
Post a 2009 year in review for this blog.
I think that’s it… for now. Let’s see how many actually get done! It will be a battle between my desire to feel productive and have fun and Joe wanting to sit inside and play Warcraft all day since that’s his idea of fun. ;)