Christmas Tidbits

Gosh, I have accomplished a lot this weekend. The completed items from my to-do list:

• buy adult and children's drinks for Christmas Eve
• buy presents for friend's mother and stepfather
• buy 14x25x1 filters for upstairs AC/heat unit
• buy Christmas present for dogs
• find Christmas present bought long ago for Dan
  
• return unused tree lights to Target
• buy skirt for Christmas tree (I own about three of these, but can find none of them)
  
• complete work project for taking to New Hampshire
• tidy up house
  
• locate gloves to take to New Hampshire
• prepare photographs for live sale and submit more photos for review at PhotoShelter
• see "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
  
• get pedicure

And the items remaining, some to be completed today and some to be completed before or shortly after the holidays are over:

• more billable work
• retrieve gifts from my office (DONE)
  
• print boarding pass for tomorrow's flight (DONE)
  
• wrap gifts (DONE)
  
• wash clothes/pack for New Hampshire trip (DONE)
  
• select reading material for New Hampshire trip (DONE)
  
• facial
• car repair
  
• see "No Country for Old Men," "Charlie Wilson's War" (DONE), "The Savages," "Juno" and "The Kite Runner"
  

The picture-guessing contest will remain open until Christmas morning, when I shall reveal the answers before flying off to New Hampshire.

I find myself longing for Paris, where I spent four days, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, two years ago. Paris seems the right place to be for Christmas. Maybe next year . . .