Being Productive for a Change!

Yesterday was a most productive day - I got to cross a lot of things off my holiday to-do list. I had a problem keeping track of my list though - I lost it at least 3 times. I spent the most time and energy on our holiday letter. I've never written one before. I got this brilliant idea to make it look like the thing that I've been slightly obsessed over the past few days - a blog! Very smart, no? I'm going to try and take a picture of it and put it here. OK I'm going to do that now. Well, that didn't work. I was going to rant about how much I hate my new camera (Olympus Stylus 710) but then I tried my old camera (Olympus C4040) and it didn't work either. So I'll get to that rant some other time. Now that I've made the letter I actually have to send it out, which means looking up addresses and buying stamps and making return address labels with a Christmas theme and figuring out who should get the letter and who should just get a card and who gets the holiday cards and who gets the Christmas cards. No wonder I passed on this whole activity for the past two years. Unfortunately, I do enjoy receiving cards and I'm learning this year that if you do not send out cards you do not get cards. I did other things too, like make some phone calls, tie up some loose present ends, get the presents for church, etc etc. I felt so good about being productive that I thought I would try to do it two days in a row - but alas, I pretty much failed. Today was definitely a low energy day.

UPDATE (12/15): In the middle of the night I got this brilliant flash of how I could get my holiday letter onto the blog. I scanned it and uploaded it as a jpeg. Now that I write about it, somehow it doesn't seem so brilliant anymore. Just stunningly obvious.