busy girl

So I was tagged by the post-drunk Io to do this meme. And a good thing, too, with Easter coming up. It's good to get organized, and I'm most of the way there, but was just thinking I need to make a list of little odds and sods.

Step 1. Reference back to the blog that sent you.
Step 2. Make a list of 5 things you have to get done this week, no matter how small.
Step 3. Get 2 other people off their asses to get their shit in order.

1. Decide on a glaze recipe for the giant ham I reserved at Fellinger's Red Meat Wagon (best and grossest butcher shop name ever!), our local meat shop.
2. Go buy some chocolate from our friends who just bought the Belgian chocolate place - do that during the day today so it is not a complete bug show waiting in line in a very tiny store.
3. Go and buy forbidden foods like milk to feed my sister K and her partner S. Not everyone is all soymilk all the time.
4. Try to relax and not go crazy taking care of everyone who's going to be at my house on Saturday for the big family supper. This is harder without alcohol but it can be done - Christmas 2007 is proof. I actually had fun.
5. Brace myself for the fact that although I take care of my grandparents and do stuff for them, like drive them around and take them grocery shopping and to the bank, my sister K is my grandmother's hands-down favorite, and I will essentially be chopped liver to Grandma while K's in town. Especially with the baby who is, according to Grandma, "fortunate to have been born healthy cause K's no spring chicken anymore." Yeah, she's 2 years younger than I am. My grandparents don't know what's going on with us fertility-wise at all - my grandma has early dementia, and it would just be confusing for her. Plus she used to be a nurse and would probably have a *ton* of assvice delivered in the slightly insensitive but still well-meaning way of those who are beginning to get a bit dotty in old age. It would be nice to be able to talk to her about this stuff, as she suffered a number of miscarriages between her last 2 kids, and I think always wanted more kids. But it would be difficult to share that with her cause she doesn't really do truth and intimacy very well, and in any case the time for her being there for me is over.

Ok, so number 5 was a bit long.

I'm gonna tag lovecomesfirst and Spicy Sister on this one. And anyone else who want to do it - I view memes kind of like a fondue party. Grab a fork and dive in, folks.