i am a list maker. it is the only way that i can stop the hamster wheel in my brain. this time of year is particularly listy, but i’m pleased to say that many of the major to-do’s are now have-done’s! the big one i checked off this morning was paying the property tax bill! woo hoo! many of you who know me might remember my lament last april when i realized that i had made a mistake never to be lived down. somehow, when i received last year’s property tax bill and the escrow check, i saw “tax” on them and immediately filed them away in the “deal with this by april 14” stack. right. if you don’t realize the implications of this mistake, go and talk to your tax guy and find out why this was a problem for me. so, this morning, i discovered that mr. h-s had helpfully filed the tax check and bill in the “bills” basket when they arrived in the mail (he normally just throws all of the mail into a stack in the living room). but of course, since this was unexpected behavior, i hadn’t seen them yet. upon discovering both the bill and the check this morning, i rushed over to town hall on my way to work and gleefully handed them the money, received my receipt (and a promise that the refund for the overage would be mailed to me in two weeks) and mentally made a large check mark on my list.
i also now have all of the crucial christmas presents made, mailed, and wrapped (ok, i think i have a few things left to wrap, but no one is gift-less at this point). now, i just have to pack, cook a few more food gifts, find someone to feed the cats while we’re gone, do another load of laundry, clean the house and find some way to get this friggin’ large chalkboard home from work… (but that’s another story.)
