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October 15, 2005
9 and 16 days...
The countdown has begun for me, and like a ticking clock to my personal armageddon, I am racing to beat the odds.
We have about 9 days until I have to get my big ass in the car and drive to Frankfurt to pick up my father who is inbound for his vacation... Which means all those little projects I have been putting off now have a new found urgency. Not that he cares if my planters on the patio are full of ragged dead shit- it almost compliments the impending season of scare- but I hate looking at it. So, as I head outside to fill my fingers full of dead rose thorns and cover my jeans with potting soil, I chastise myself for having put it off so long.
16 days until Halloween. I have just put the finishing touches onto Rachel's sleeping beauty costume. Between her and Heidi, I have been looking at pink fabric so long that I may be going for a nice rest in one of those small white padded rooms on the 1st of November. I have still yet to start Kevin's or Scott's costume- and there is always the matter of my dad's. I have bolts of fabric standing against my walls- like soldiers there to remind me of the work still to be done, and quietly drive me insane with glaring stares.
It is increasingly difficult to make house projects and spring cleaning type things happen at the same time as throwing bits of thread and fabric on the floor. And so, I return again to the mental argument between me and myself of why I put off the "projects" for so very long... The store room, the patio, rearranging my whole kitchen... I may end up shortening that list, as it threatens to keep me awake like a crack fiend for weeks if I don't set a few priorities.
Ultimately, it comes down to the core of what has always been the idiom of my life- If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Posted by TheFreud at October 15, 2005 1:56 PM
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Just leave me a small list of chores for when I get there. I'll probably be going crazy with idle time before the 3rd day anyhow.. LOL
Love,
Dad
Posted by: Dad at October 16, 2005 12:43 AM
