Monday Tally

After turning in That Most Terrifying Paper last Monday afternoon, I decided to take a hiatus from doing anything productive. OOPS.

OK. That is not entirely true. I actually did get a fair amount done. Mostly involving Christmas cookies, Christmas decorating, Christmas present shopping and wrapping, and Christmas card writing. Basically anything Christmas. The upside of this Christmas overdose is that I am a lot less Grinch-y than I was this time last week. And by "a lot less Grinch-y" I mean that I actually have, kind of sort of, a little bit of Christmas spirit in me. Yes indeed, lovely readers. I have a little bit of Christmas spirit in me and A WHOLE LOT of egg nog (which should TOTALLY be a food group by now).

So to tally it up officially:

Christmas cards written: 55

Kind of scary-looking Nutcracker stamps used to address Christmas cards: 51 (I'm missing 4 addresses)

Christmas cookies baked: 48

Christmas cookies eaten: no comment

Christmas presents wrapped: 30(ish)

Loads of laundry washed, dried, and folded: 8 (Preston helped on the folding)

Hours spent at the library: a measly 3

Seasons of How I Met Your Mother watched while addressing cards/baking/wrapping presents: 1.5 (2 by tonight, in all likelihood)

Project: Let's Eat Dinner Together meals cooked: 1 (oops)

Hours spent exercising: 1 (oops again)

Items packed for our trip to Virginia: 0

Words written on my second (and blessedly, LAST) seminar paper: 0

So....no. I don't have everything done that I wanted to have done before we left for Virginia. But really, I was never going to have everything done that I wanted to have done before we left for Virginia because hello my name is Mary Frances and I like to procrastinate. But now, FOR REAL, I am off to the library. And then I'm going for a run. And then I'm going to go for a slow-old lady like run, handwash the laundry that has been sitting in our closet since September (really, if it says "handwash" on the label, it might as well say "MARY FRANCES DO NOT BUY ME BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER EVER WASH ME."), drink wine, finish wrapping Preston's last minute Christmas purchases (luckily, every single one of his presents is either a book or a DVD, which means I don't have to do anything creative wrapping! hurrah!), frantically pack, and go to bed.

Be in awe of how truly exciting my life is. In AWE. Happy week of Christmas, everyone! Hope your days are filled with Christmas music, scary amounts of sugar, fires with roasted chestnuts and marshmallows, sleep, twinkly lights, ornaments, hugs, and warm fuzzy feelings from either 1) being with beloved family and friends, or 2) lots of alcohol. Or, if you're really lucky, from both.