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I am taking a couple of days off for these last few days of summer.
In that time I expect to accomplish the following:
- A relaxing trip to the cottage including BBQing, reading, fishing, wandering.
- Clean out every closet/drawer in the house.
- Build shelves for the basement, completely reorganize and colour code all of its contents and put it all back together.
- Reinsulate the chicken coop.
- Build screens to block the view of my garbage cans.
- Buy a fridge
- Remodel the entire kitchen in order to accommodate said fridge
- Swap the ugly summer p’jamas out for the ugly winter ones. That now smell like drawer.
- Assign a really cool nickname to all of the lamps in the house.
- Develop the cure for scoliosis so no child has to touch their toes while wearing underpants.
- Attempt to facilitate a comeback of Road Runner jeans.
- Build my own backyard furniture out of stuff I find around the house. And other people’s houses.
- Eat some chips.
If by some fluke I find I don’t have time to accomplish everything on the list, the list will be pared down to only the first and last tasks on the list.
For the remainder of the week, I will be re-posting the very first 4 posts I ever wrote for The Art of Doing Stuff with all new introductions and insights into them. It’ll be fun. I promise. At least for me it will. I’ll be eating chips.
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Elle
You still haven’t bought a fridge?
i think that while you are fishing and waiting for those fish to bite the bait, you should browse the web on your smartphone and find a fridge.
Enjoy!
mimiindublin
Lol! Enjoy, and I hope your weather is different to ours (dark, cold, wet); if it happens to be the same with you, just read! And wear those winter pj’s!
magali
you haven’t bought a fridge yet?! it shows you have a vegetable garden!
Laura Bee
Brilliant! Seriously-yesterday I was going back in time through your posts trying to find the first one – then my daughter woke up. Everytime I try, I never find it. It’s a mystery.
Enjoy your time “off” haha. Most of those things sound quite enjoyable-except the basement…you will get satisfaction I’m sure, but no enjoyment. Watch out for “those” bugs.
Debbie
Have a relaxing, do nothing time!
When I first started reading your list, I thought “relaxing”? Sounds like work and you’re going to need more than a couple days! Then realized you were joshing by about the 3rd or 4th point…yeah it takes me a while, or actually I just read so fast it takes my mind a second to catch up.
Debbie
Judy
Everything but the first and last can wait. (Unless of course it rains…and then it should be only the first and last, too!) Enjoy!
Karen Boreham
OMG! Road runner jeans! Thanks for that!
cred
hahaha! Road Runner jeans!
Diana
Hey Karen,
enjoy some free days!
Have a good time.
Diana
Kathryn
Enjoy!
FLP
I finally committed to a new fridge last week. No more frozen vegetables and I don’t mean in the freezer. No more carrots frozen to the bottom of the crisper drawer. No more ice cube-like cucumbers. Wonderful.
Enjoy a change in your routine. Organizing and tossing can be a happy experience too.
Dawna Jones
Have fun Karen,you will be missed but everyone deserves a break!
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Karen
Thanks Dawna! I’ll still be around, posting, just in a more limited manner.
~ k!
Jasmine
I hope the chips will be some Old Dutch Salt and Vinegar and not those nasty dill pickle ones you keep buying. Have a great holiday!
Nicole2
Heeey, those dill pickle chips are delicious!!
I love how you manage to accomplish more during your vacation week than I accomplished all summer. Heck, all year.
Lynne Knowlton
Road Runner….catch him if you can. Or Karen. Catch her if you can. She has a big a$$ list ahead of her. Thanks, I now have the joneses for some potato chips.
xx
nancyeileen
Can’t wait!
marilyn
karen fyi…road runner jeans are still available at gt boutique aka as giant tiger..also at select value villages near you.laughed out loud tho..they were/are great! have a great week.xo
Karen
Right on! ~ k
Barbie
Good for you! Have a FUN and RELAXING time….
Lisa
You are good for a laugh, that’s for sure. I read your blog daily despite the fact that we have only one thing in common: chips.
Karen
Ohhh I bet we have more in common than that. For instance, I also like dip. ~ karen
Tricia Rose
Piece of cake for you. However what’s so bad about touching your toes in underpants?
Annie
“that now smell like drawer” – love it!
Annie Kip
Oh, I can relate to that “To Do” list. Getting it into a realiztic state is the biggest battle – or perhaps I need to get my priorities straight and just eat more chips! You are one of the most productive people I have encountered – you deserve a brak. Enjoy!!!
Evalyn
So what are you planning for Day 2?
Evalyn
Just Googled Road Runner jeans – EBay has a pair of high-waited harem pant style for $15.00. Gett’em while you can!
Angela
You are hilarious! Blessings to you on your mini-vacation, or maxi-vacation, if you can fit it all in!
Karen
Thanks Angela.
~ karen
Brie
Have a wonderful “vacation.” Please use caution while reorganizing your basement- I fear the centipedes will swarm. They are carnivores, you know. ICK.
Kate
Just thought I’d drop a note to say I saw the dill chips for the first time ever yesterday. I thought of you and I bought them- and I don’t even like dill pickles! See, you’re making a difference one bag of chips at a time (to be fair, I didn’t really like the chips, but at least I tried something new). You’ve earned a vacation!