Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends.

The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. - Jay Leno

so last night, i'm talking to nicholas, and it hits me. it's monday! i leave for Chicago in two days! really, in only one day since it was later evening, and we leave at 6:54am on wednesday morning! so not only do i have to get ready to leave, i have to clean my house because a: i hate coming home to a messy house and b: theresa will be inhabiting my household while i'm gone since she's on spring break. I also have to go buy toilet paper because i'm down to my last roll, and poor theresa will probably need some while i'm gone. ack! i haven't even started packing yet, i'm only going to be gone until friday, so it's not that much, but still. i also have to transfer all the pictures on rachels memory card to my computer and burn them onto a cd for her so i can use her memory card because i'm cheap and don't want to buy a bigger card and mine only holds 16 pictures.

so here's my to do list for today:
1. find a way to breath at work (we've found two dead mice and it smells horrific here) we covered our vents with binders. and i'm home now anyway.
2. go to the Y not gonna happen
3. buy toilet paper Katie is going to target on lunch and is picking me up some
4. do laundry so T has a clean towel and i have clean underwear for my trip
5. pack. and i'm gonna have to make a list for that, it's what i do
6. finish ripping songs to my mp3 player. i still have room for about 500 more songs i came home from work and had two new cd's in the mail. score.
7. burn rachel's pics to cd
8. i'm gonna have to actually get some work done today, since i'm going to be gone for 3 days i actually got tons done
9. do my dishes
10. vacuum
11. sweep my kitchen
12. find an extra set of sheets for theresa to use after jo and i leave so she doesn't have to sleep on sheets used by someone else check
13. wash my sheets so i can come home to a freshly laundered bed (the best way to come home from vacation)
14. get a good nights sleep because the next 3 days are gonna be busy
15. i remembered i have to go to the bank as well
16. buy black shoes because mine broke this afternoon they didn't have any!

yikes. i'd better go get to work.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's quite a list for one night. Have fun in Chicago!

Toni said...

Dang woman.

dawnmarie said...

i don't think i've ever seen erika use an exclamation point before, which makes me wonder if it's erika. but thanks! i will have fun!

toni - i know. too much stuff. i may sneak out of work early.

Rachel said...

If you want to wait to burn my pics to a CD and just put them on your computer in the meantime, you can. Not like I need any of them anytime soon.

If there's anything I can do to help you out, let me know.

dawnmarie said...

thanks rach. it's not going to be hard to burn them to a cd, that's not a big deal. if i had been thinking and done it last night, i'd be fine.

Sarah said...

dawn - pay attention to the mood in chicago re: Kirby. i'm curious.

oh yeah, and have a good trip.

:hugs:

Rachel said...

Your shoes broke? Sad.

But it's an excuse to go shoe shopping! :D

dawnmarie said...

yeah, my shoes broke. and i wear them every.freaking.day. so its kind of a pain that they broke today, but at least i get to shop.

Toni said...

Well...have a great time! I didn't get to talk with you before you left work.
Have fun!

Anonymous said...

You're going to Chicago??? I am so envious of anyone's travel plans right now! What are you going to do there?

Rachel said...

Yes, Carly... Because we all know it's been soooo long since you've gone on any cool trips! ;)

theresa said...

I'm happy to report they made it safe to the airport and at 9:30 I got a call saying they were in Chicago at their hotel.

Anonymous said...

I know Rachel. It's pathetic. I think it's part of still trying to deny that I am home again.

Happy to know they're safe.

Anonymous said...

"I know Rachel. It's pathetic."

That wasn't very nice. :P

So am I not a true friend because I accidentally made another commitment for the time I was supposed to be picking up Dawn from the airport?

Rachel said...

Carly was calling herself pathetic. Not me!

And I think she'll forgive you...

Anonymous said...

I was most definitely referring to myself. Just to clarify.

lauren said...

You won't get this until you get home, probably, but Chicago is one of my favorite cities in the world. And it has some of the best reastaurants - check out Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba (Spanish Tapas restaurant) on N. Halstead above Armitage in Lincoln Park.

((((So envious. Love Chicago.))))

dawnmarie said...

Carly, yes, I went to Chicago, you've probably figured that out by now.

Rachel, be nice.

Toni, it was awesome.

Nick, it's ok, i'll still keep you.

lauren, thanks, i love chicago a well, i've wanted to live there since i was a little girl. it was a blast.