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To Do List Before Next Tuesday (Oatmeal Day!)

Not necessarily in this order:

1. Clean.


2. Clean more.


3. Yes, even under the beds.


4. Set up the old dining room table in the sunroom to be used as additional seating. Something that T.K. had suggested we do for poker games but which will come in handy for this as well.


5. Clear a path to the pink wall of junk drawers in the basement so my bloggies home-girls can peek at some of the treasure still left behind. Things like this:



6. Start coming up with a list of excuses for why there is still missing trim in the bedrooms on the second floor. And missing doors. And missing interior windows.


7. Find something to use as a doorbell since we still don't have a doorbell after five years. A toy trumpet? A pan and a spoon? Police whistle?


8. Buy new candles for our pimped out Ikea candlelier.



9. Stash all evidence of sloth. Like those People Magazines I say I never read. (My sister LEAVES THEM HERE when she visits. I SWEAR!)


10. Clean the sticker debris off of the plexiglass we installed on the TV screen when Grace learned to crawl.


11. Take the power tools out of the guest room and put them in the basement.


12. Consider hanging pictures on the walls. Any of the walls.


13. Get new slipcovers to replace the ones that the toddler, um, "christened" during potty training mishap.



14. Shower. (Note: V. v. important!)


15. Spike the orange juice so bloggers will write nice things about you after they leave.

Which reminds me. Tuesday's Quaker Oats/ Inauguration/ Oatmeal Extravaganza/ Feed the People shindig** is being catered by the magnificent and very tolerant Melissa Velez-Luce from My Very Own Chef. She's magnificent because oh MY that girl can make might tasty eats! And tolerant because she agreed to cater a gig at my house where the oven is broken and we have a 14" wide dishwasher. Um, sorry Melissa!

**(Join up with us over at Facebook and help Quaker to feed needy families in 2009! Start with Substance! Details here! I am awful at marketing! So obvious! Sorry Quaker! Though, seriously? I think Feed the People is super creative because "We the People...", get it? Get it? Yeah, you're welcome.)

Posted by jeanne on January 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM

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