I have a whole day off, no work, no previous commitments. It’s been awhile so I have a few things I need to get done today. Here’s the list:
- Go for a run. It’s been too long since my last attempt and if you don’t keep up you have to start over …again and again.
- Make some bread. I have a cookbook from my library with some great bread receipes in it and a whole new concept about storing unbaked bread dough so that you can bake bread every evening if you wanted fresh for dinner. The book will be due before I ever get to this unless I put it on “THE LIST.”
- Wrap a shower gift. The wedding shower is tomorrow. I purchased the gift weeks ago but it sits unwrapped. I need a card too. Darn. That means a trip to a store somewhere. What was I thinking when I got the gift? That I’d use a marker and just write her (and my) name on the box?
- Vacuum. Have dog. And husband. Haven’t vacuumed in maybe three weeks. Enough said.
- Laundry. See above.
- Finish reading “Reliable Wife” by Robert Goolrick. It’s a very good book and it was due back to the library two days ago. I’m on page 169 of a 290 page book. Being a librarian means you have no time to read all the good books you see coming and going. It’s a job hazard.
- Take the dog to the park. She’s already whining and it’s just barely 7:00 a.m. Obviously she hasn’t read “THE LIST” yet.
- Help husband dig up the roots to a tree he removed so that we can plant something there that doesn’t have suckers that grow up through everything. I’m hoping it rains because I don’t have time.
- Weed, especially the vegetable garden. My little stubby beans are being overrun by non-vegetable matter.
- Update the resume and write a cover letter for a librarian position that is 59 miles away. It’s become apparent that I will be on lay off, maybe next week, maybe the end of summer, certainly prior to the end of the fiscal year this fall. So it’s time to start looking again. Maybe I should do this first. Well. Right after the run.
Katie girl, you better hang on tight, Mama’s going to be moving fast today!
Change Is Hard 
July 18, 2009 at 7:14 am
Good luck with your “to do” list! Sorry to hear you may be getting laid off. Hoepfully, it leads you to something even better!
I have “finish book” on my to do list today too. I have 3 other library books sitting here, and two books waiting for me at the library. I refuse to check the computer to see how many more books are “in transit”, on their way to me at this very moment!
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July 18, 2009 at 9:04 am
Sorry about the lay off.
Funny, Miley was jumping on the door before 7am wanting to go for a walk too. I hope you get your list done, except the root thing. Yuk! Thats hard work. Diana
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July 18, 2009 at 11:54 am
Sounds like a very busy day off:) But enjoy and good luck with the job thing.
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July 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Go for run. CHECK. Make bread. CHECK. Wrap shower gift. CHECK (and go to store and buy groceries and buy silly shower card). Vacuum. CHECK (including the cold air return vents that were FILTHY!) Finish reading “Reliable Wife.” CHECK. (and wrote review in GoodReads). Take dog to park. Sort of Check. Played in backyard instead as it is beginning to rain. Did obedience, “ran the board” played frisbee, had fun. She’s sleeping now. Help dig up roots. NOT checked. YEA It’s raining! 🙂 Weed. Not checked. See above. Update resume and write cover letter. CHECK (and mailed it to respond to job posting).
Don’t know what to do with myself now!
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July 18, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Wow – what a busy day but you got lots done! Sorry that you’re getting laid off – hopefully you’ll find something even better! About the vacuuming – somehow mom thinks it’s not even me that makes the mess – it’s mostly dad!
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July 18, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Deacon woke me up at 5 AM to go out for our walk. Good luck job hunting. That is truly something I hate doing.
Dog Dad
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