• Attend Sarah’s party (already in progress)
• Shop on Capitol Hill (en route to said party)
• Finish two books
• Narrow my Cybils shortlist (painful!)
• Phone home
• Write half our Christmas cards (with Rudi’s assistance)
• Listen to a Christmas cd (possibly while writing cards)
• Get enough sleep so I don’t doze off during jury duty tomorrow

Already done:

• Laundry
• Purchase and put away the farmers market bounty
• Eat breakfast (Yes, at 1:30. Call it a snack if it makes you feel better)

I haven’t emptied the cat boxes.
I haven’t taken out the trash.
I haven’t put away the laundry.
I haven’t washed the dishes.
I haven’t downloaded the Christmas music.
I haven’t figured out if we can upload the audio book from the library to Rudi’s iPhone.
I haven’t finalized which books I’m taking with me.
I haven’t packed.
I haven’t written any book reviews.
I haven’t put together our Christmas party invitation.
I haven’t finished a book today.
I haven’t tidied the living room.
I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in ages.

Another weekend, another to-do list:

• Tackle four Cybils nominees this weekend: The Storyteller, Catch & Release, Purity, and You’re So Sweet
• Dig up my potato and sweet potato patches and see if I grew anything besides greens in them
• Get outside on Saturday, when it’s supposed to be sunny
• Write reviews for all at least half the Cybils books I’ve finished reading
• Take the completed D.C. books back to the library
• Do a little shopping
• Finish my Christmas socks
• Pack the book bag I’ll be taking to Connecticut
• Download the Cybils nominee that my library only had on audio.
• Send out our Christmas party invitation
• Clean the area between the living room and bedroom
• Go to Goodwill

There are some other things I’d like to do, too. But they’re repeat offenders and I’m tired of writing down that I haven’t done them yet.

Another weekend, another to do list.

Things I hope to accomplish:

• Finish four books
• Finalize my first shortlist (15 titles) for the Cybils panel
• Have dinner with Rudi and Julia
• Go to Crafty Bastards, which also involves investigating the new Union Market
• Wash laundry
• Change the sheets
• Wash curtains
• Sort library books into piles so I can reclaim some of our living room by returning a bunch of them.
• Write 5 book reviews
• Finish my red Christmas socks (I was down to the toe decreases when I stopped earlier this year.)
• Make a green tomato pie
• Make bread
• Mop the bathroom floor
• Mop the kitchen floor when I put the food mill away
• Switch out my summer and winter clothes
• Find my missing handknits
• Call Fragers to see if they have garlic bulbs
• Pull up dead/dying summer plants and put in fall/winter veg at the garden
• Do some of my reading outside in the sun, since it’s supposed to be nice
• Compose this year’s tree trimming invitation
• Go to the farmers market
• Get a minimum of six hours of sleep both nights and still get up before noon.

Things I did (or didn’t) accomplish this weekend:

• Finish four books (Done!)
• Go to the charity benefit at Politics and Prose (done! bonus: Christmas shopping!)
• Wash laundry (one load done; another will happen in the morning)
• Vacuum (done)
• Write three book reviews (one)
• Knit 10 rows on a sock (Fail)
• Wash the bathroom sink (yes)
• Handwash socks (the pile that was in the bathroom got done; those in the bedroom did not)
• Make applesauce (apples cooked down, but haven’t run them through the mill yet)
• Make a pie/tart (fail; although there’s a pie crust in the fridge now)
• Make bread (nope)
• Mop the bathroom floor (nope)
• Mop the kitchen floor (nope)
• Switch out my summer and winter clothes (nope)
• Listen to music (some, but less than I’d have liked)
• Plant fall/winter veg in the garden (didn’t even go down to the garden)
• Think about going over to the Arlington Library to acquire more Cybils nominees (16 books picked up)
• See if Michael and Julia have time to get together (got together with Julia for a walk)
• Sit outside in the sun, should it appear (no sun Saturday; failure to sit outside on Sunday)
• Go to the farmers market (yup)
• Make a pot of chocolate (and drank it while eating cider doughnuts for breakfast)
• Get a minimum of six hours of sleep both nights and still get up before noon. (Accomplished!)

It was an ambitious list, as Karen wrote. I’m not wholly disappointed with what I got done, particularly since I finished four Cybils nominees and have clean underwear for tomorrow.

It’s late and I’d like to go to bed, so I’m afraid we’re opting for a bulleted list tonight.

Things I hope plan to accomplish this weekend:

• Finish four books (One is done; a second is started.)
• Go to the charity benefit at Politics and Prose (done! bonus: Christmas shopping!)
• Wash laundry (a priority should I want to wear underwear next week, which I do)
• Vacuum
• Write three book reviews
• Knit 10 rows on a sock
• Wash the bathroom sink
• Handwash socks
• Make applesauce (with some apples that are looking a little peaked)
• Make a pie/tart (with some apples that look perkier. A perky pie! ha! (yes, I’m going to bed soon, I promise…))
• Make bread (okay, the bread machine will do the brunt of this, but still…)
• Mop the bathroom floor
• Mop the kitchen floor (since I have to move stuff to get to the food mill, anyway)
• Switch out my summer and winter clothes
• Listen to music
• Plant fall/winter veg in the garden (this includes calling Frager’s to see if they have garlic bulbs)
• Think about going over to the Arlington Library to acquire more Cybils nominees (if not this weekend, then a must-do by Wednesday)
• See if Michael and Julia have time to get together
• Sit outside in the sun, should it appear
• Go to the farmers market
• Make a pot of chocolate
• Get a minimum of six hours of sleep both nights and still get up before noon.

And with that bullet, let me away before it becomes impossible!