T minus 3 days...
And I'm still not finished with my shopping, wrapping, baking or crafting. Yikes. Let this blog at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday morning count as the blog I was supposed to write last night. Maybe I forgot to write it or maybe I purposely avoided it because I was embarrassed about how very unproductive I was yesterday. Unproductive, yet, I felt like I never relaxed for a second!
I let myself sleep in until 9, and it felt great (okay, so I guess I did do a little relaxing)! Then somehow I wasted time on the computer until 10:30 or so before I started to melt the chocolate to dip the oreo balls in (slaps hand on wrist). I don't have a double boiler and the two pots that I used last year as my own imitation of one, were two small to hold three times as much chocolate chips. So I decided to use a glass bowel inside of a pot instead.
It worked great, at first. But towards the end, the chocolate started to cook on the glass and got really chunky. I have no idea if this was because it was glass or because I had three times as many oreo balls to dip and it took three times as long, allowing the chocolate to start getting hard. Either way, even though I had enough chocolate to finish the oreo balls, they started to look really bad and really chunky so I had to stop.
I wanted to rinse the bowel before the chocolate hardened so I took the bowel that was too hot to touch with my bare hands, over to the sink where I poured cold water on it. You can guess what happened next. I started hearing glass cracking and then shattering and then chocolate was starting to leak out of the bottom of the bowel. Obviously, it was a very dangerous mess in my sink. I spent some time cleaning that up before I went to get the mail.
When I got the mail, we had a whole stack of Christmas cards. Yay! I LOVE getting Christmas cards. But four of them were from people we didn't send Christmas cards to this year. You can judge me for this, but I am one of those people who will send you a Christmas card if you send me one. Not because I feel obligated, but because I feel it's the nice, Christmassy thing to do. So, I immediately went down to the basement to make five more Christmas cards. Yes, not only am I going to send these people Christmas cards, but they're going to be handmade cards just like everyone else got!
When I went to the basement to print the pictures for the cards, I remembered I also needed to print some pictures for a calendar I'm putting together as a gift. So I was trying to do both. I was just finishing up the cards when I looked at the clock and it was 2:45. I was supposed to pick Pat's friend up and take him to the airport at 3:00! So I rushed to get the Christmas cards addressed and stamped, hoping that if I got them to the post office before 5 that they would have a slight chance of getting there before Christmas and then rushed out the door to go pick up Pat's friend.
Picking him up and taking him to the airport took about an hour and while I was out, I decided I would run some (but not even close to all) of the errands I needed to get done. I got back to my house right at the same time my friend was coming over. We went to Zumba class and then did dinner. When I got home, I did some more crafting that needed to get done and then the day was over.
When I woke up this morning I realized that I forgot to have Pat take something to work that he needs to laminate for me (using my own laminate, just using the machine there) so now I have to make a trip to Elyria today on top of everything else. Not exactly on top of my game.
So, to try to summarize this very long winded blog, I still have a lot to do. Here are my plans for today:
Make the mixture for the buckeyes, roll them into balls, put them into the fridge
Go to store and buy chocolate chips for the buckeyes
Possibly buy some sort of chocolate melting machine or a double boiler since I have few options left
Meet Pat for lunch to exchange "craft"
Go to Kohls to try and buy two remaining gifts
Go to Michael's to see if I can find a frame that Pat needs for a gift and buy a basket for another gift
Buy some things for Pat's stocking
Finish wrapping gifts
Finish making a craft for one of the gifts
Print some more pictures for other gifts
Finish dipping oreo balls in chocolate
Dip buckeyes in chocolate
Print some more pictures for other gifts
Finish dipping oreo balls in chocolate
Dip buckeyes in chocolate
Make peanut blossom cookies
Make peanut butter cookies
Make peanut butter fudge
Make peanut butter fudge
Make more pretzel turtles
And whatever I don't get done today (which will probably be like half of this list), I will try to do tomorrow! I'm losing some of that confidence (or arrogance) that I had a few days ago about my ability to get it all done...
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