plan out everything I'd like to do this spring...

dream about happy hour party gnomes for you and your friends, and you will find 3 absolutely heinous ones for a slightly reasonable price at your local thrift shop.

we gonna fly our freak flag this spring, baby!

- spring break
– go somewhere before spring break while this weather is still making me crazy! 051308 – did not do!!
– do more field trips/outings & culture excursions
– don’t overbuy at the nurseries again this year! 051308 update… argh. why did I write this goal down. Now I have to remember it!
– Brownington’s – meet someplace
– ARB Plant sale

Schedules to check for spring & summer
– tee ball
– ARB – concert events, etc. Emmy Lou is going to be there June 14th~!
– Ravinia
– Museums
– film fests
– FITZ

OUTINGS
– misc. at the ARB – did go driving one day after heavy snowfall with M, D & JD – beautiful. 051308 update – have gone several times – once with Dad and once with Teve to see big bugs. Fun.

Spring Parties & Events
– JW’s birthday
– Jeg’s birthday
– Mom’s 70th
– Dad’s 73rd???
– St. Paddy’s day @ the D’s
– Easter
– Chochie’s 19th??
– Mawk’s 50th

Spring-related chores
– wash windows
– order rain barrel
– order new hinges for kitchen – ordered but got wrong ones. argh.
– Decorate the House for Spring/Easter [did weekend of 3/15 – couldn’t find my st. paddy’s day stuff. (?)]

SPRING!

OUTINGS
- Go to a pumpkin patch and/or pick apples… – maybe kuiper’s farm or ?? see if the neighborhood gals or nancy/sandi or emily/deb & family would want to go
10/16 update: invite from Nancy to go this Friday with kids
10/19 update: went with Nancy/Sandi and the kids – gales were a-blowin’ but it was fun. sustained pumpkin related injury, but I will survive!

- Dias de los muertos – mexican fine arts museum??
- misc. at the ARB

Fall Parties
check – Chili Cookoff 9/29 <- also very fun. our block rocks.
check – D’s halloween party 10/13 <- so fun.
– JD school birthday party
– JD school Halloween party
– JV’s birthday party in WI – make reservations! ... still need to find jib sitter for friday.

Fall-related chores
– cleaning up the yard, garage, plants, planting, etc.
– re-sorting clothing for the season
– purging christmas decorations
– rotate toys also…, move more books to closet or downstairs.

Halloween Costumes Figure out costumes and order missing pieces – kind of a nightmare as usual… JW was missing a glove and the stuff I ordered never came… ended up having to make some things and blowing off some others. Ended up working out ok but was very stressful.

Decorate the House for fall/halloween (9/24 working on it; 10/14 did the outside last week, pretty much done with what I’m going to do this year though I have more to put out I don’t think I will this year.)

- Deb’s birthday – get together weekend of the 30th? (this weekend) (10/14 – totally fucked this up… just gave her a card today… no gift, no cake, no nothin!)
- JD’s birthday – see “plan JD’s birthday”
- Chrisser’s birthday

Plan trip using travel voucher – Alex in AZ with Deb and Emmers?

Ladies’ night something or other with neigh. group or WSP people.

Galena?

Emmy’s Cross country meets – have been to 3 of them.
Rach’s soccer games – only made it to the Wtn. one : (

- Watch timeline for early holiday planning cycle - organized home.org - 10/14 check. Ready to go with things next week!

Plan my birthday
Plan JW’s
Plan Thanksgiving
Plan Christmas – 10/19/07 – doing the 6-week countdown on organized christmas.com

...and that means I be busy.