Up and At 'Em

Go ahead: Make my day by asking me why I got up at 4:30 a.m. this morning.

Well, I'm so glad you asked! I got up at 4:30, because I'd been lying in bed, awake, for over half an hour, trying in vain to remember the lyrics for the second verse of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." (Verses 1 & 3 I had no trouble with.)

It's not easy being me.

It is now the 16th of December. That means Christmas is in NINE DAYS.

Gulp. In the next nine days, I have plenty to do! I have to make shortbread, gingerbread, possibly make a gingerbread house.

I have to finish a quilt and mail it to my niece and nephew, then finish a nearly identical one to give to my new step-grandkids.

In my spare time, I'm going to start a quilt for my daughter and for my brother and his wife.

I need to finish shopping for about four people.

I'm working today and tomorrow - but thankfully have next week off. And I am still clinging to the hope that I will actually get all this done by Christmas.

Right. Now that the alarm has gone off, I'm getting ready to go to work. Taking a break, as it were, from my more presssing engagements...