One Week From Today...

One week and Carl should be home for his two weeks of R&R. Can you stand it?

I have been making mental checklists of things I want to get accomplished before he arrives:

1. Organize finances (oh crap)
2. Organize garage (blech)
3. Organize closet (rumor has it there is a floor to my closet)
4. Organize the rental house spreadsheet (Carl loves spreadsheets... they turn him on.)
5. Get rid of all People magazines and US magazines... stock the house with intelligent reads like Money and Gold Digest. (It is the little things that make him happy)
6. Hide all granny panties. (I don't want to frighten the poor guy)
7. Buy unmentionables that I won't mention here on this blog.
8. Take down all Christmas decorations (he said he would help, but I know he was just saying that to "act" supportive He would much rather spend his time at home doing... other things.)
9. Lose 10lbs (in 7 days? Not a problem.)
10. Color my roots (What? You thought I was naturally this color? Maybe when I was 7).
11. Shave (I'll need a few razors for this considering he has been gone for 5 months-and it is winter)
12. Give the dog a bath (not because Carl would care, but because the dog stinks).
13. Buy beer (and pretend they are the same ones that were in the fridge when he left.)
14. Delete all emails from blogging readers with the subject heading "hot man" (just because).

I bet Carl's mental list looks like this:

1. Get home.

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