Second List Check

(Side note: Last night’s concert went much better. I totally choked on the first note of my solo, but…it’s not brain surgery, and no one died, so I’m ok with that. At least I corrected the first note and redeemed myself playing the rest of it. :) Someday I will learn to get over my stage fright. Maybe.)

So, what’s left on my to-do list from Monday?

• I still have two gifts to finish knitting. One of them isn’t even started yet. Can you hear the panic in my typing? Obviously, that’s what’s being packed knitting-wise for the trip. I might toss in a ball of sock yarn just in case (yeah, right) I manage to finish the gifts before we get back.
• I’m almost done wrapping things, enough so that the rest could probably wait until we get back from our trip. Especially since two of the things aren’t done anyway. (See above.)
• The inside decorations are up and the boxes put away, and the outside just hasn’t been cooperating weather-wise…maybe I just won’t bother this year. :(
• Cookie baking. Well, I have two choices: stay up until probably 2 or 3 in the morning tonight, or buy cookies. The Italian Catholic guilt gene is saying “stay up, you know you really shouldn’t bring store-bought cookies.” The rest of me is saying “go buy those really fancy Italian cookies and go to bed early so you can enjoy the trip.” Which will win? Tune in tomorrow…

So, aside from the cookie debate, and the feeling that the neighbors must think we’re horrible grinchy people with just a small door decoration and candles in the windows but no wreaths or garlands, and the fact that I have several hours of knitting left to do, I’m less stressed. No, really, my to-do list is getting shorter every day. Of course, the time left to finish everything I have to do is also getting shorter every day.

Really, I just want to be able to get back to knitting stuff for me. Two sweaters and a vest, and several pairs worth of sock yarn have been calling from my stash for days now. Not to mention my stalled aran afghan. But I’m going to be a good girl and ignore them for just a few more days. Probably.