The Minutes of 12/10.

So yesterday was crazy.

What I Did...

• Woke up and told my husband "Happy 2 months!!!"
• Ate breakfast, got ready and loaded the car up with the broken trash can I keep forgetting to return to Bed Bath & Beyond.
• Drove with Todd to pick up our car from the shop. Praise the Lord for insurance.
• Picked up car with shiny new hood and paint job, parted ways with Todd at the shop and headed to BBB.
• Spent roughly an hour destroying the clearance section of curtains, hoping to be able to clothe my kitchen and living room windows for $4.95 a panel. Almost doesn't count.
• Hunted through the entire section for 2, non-existent "63 inch panels. At first I had a style and color in mind. I finally just went with whatever I could find.
• Also wound up buying 4 panels of chocolate brown blackout curtains for the living room, 2 tension rods, and a set of toys for Gotham.
• Ran out of gift cards and had to put $89.00 on my credit card. NOT good.
• Went home, made lunch for hubs, sent him to work and put up curtains. Discovered I only needed 2 panels for the living room.
• Gathered extra panels, an unused crock-pot (i'll buy another eventually) and an extra shower curtain, along with the packaging from everything I'd just bought and opened.
• Drove my butt back across town to BBB.
• Returned and rebought enough stuff to put all $89.00 back on my credit card AND receive $32.64 in store credit. Score.
• Contemplated buying a few poster frames to complete a few creative projects i've been pondering.
• Realized that I probably won't have time to finish them in the near future and so I shouldn't spend the money.
• Resisted the urge to go into Trader Joe's.
• Came home. admired curtains. Cleaned the living room and then headed to the kitchen to make the aforementioned baked potato soup that didn't happen the day before.
• Who knew freaking potatoes would be so frustrating. I didn't cook some of them long enough and ended up microwaving them while trying to brown onions and garlic without burning the butter and blah blah blah. Not a good experience.
• Finished the soup. Ate the soup while watching the Office. Was not impressed by the soup. Drowned it in bacon bits an sprinkle cheese.
• Cleaned the kitchen that I destroyed.
• Wrapped a couple of presents for Todd.
• Checked facebook, gmail, and university job sites. then facebook again.
• Spent some time organizing our 8000 wedding pictures until Todd got home.
• watched Late Night shows with Todd while editing our upcoming newsletter.
• Re-edited Christmas eve service invites and emailed them out.
• Photoshopped a picture of Buddy The Elf for our Rec Center Love event.
• Marveled at the fact that I've yet to watch Elf this year.
• Quit marveling and went to bed at 1:15am.
• Realized that I didn't write a blog.
• Realized that as long as I write 2 today, I'll still be caught up, staying on track (for the first time ever!) with my goal of blogging 31 times this month.