Well, y'all, I sorta missed the parade.
Yesterday, I said, "PODA looks like this -- " and here we go:
[x] Call cousin 2 re: Cousin Out of State
DONE
[x] Call cousin 1 re: info from cousin 2
DONE
None of the next stuff got done... 
-- Call BBQ place and order our meal for Christmas Eve
-- Wmart
-- Mail dniece's bday card with gift card (which I will need to purchase at Wmart.) Found out dniece won't be home until the 30th, and her bday is Saturday.
-- Go to post office, go to electric co-op and pay bill
And this... well, I need to wait for new info from College Town re: next year's tickets. It usually comes in December... still got 9 days before Christmas...
-- Type up accounting for dbil's tickets -- we settle up at the end of the year -- condo expenses vs ticket expenses. Usually he owes us money. I hope that holds true again.
OTOH -- Re: cousin out of state... All right,
I called Cousin 2. They say Cousin 3 left them with the idea that he would call Cousin Out of State.
I called Cousin 3... no... he doesn't remember talking to Cousin Out of State. (But I did talk to his wife, who is one of my favorites, and she has COPD and has been homebound for awhile, so I don't see her at church anymore.
Finally, I just bit the bullet and called her. I'm saying, "Well, there's just no way to say this but to jump in and say it... Did any of us tell you about dh?"
"Oh yes," she says.
Y'all.. guess who called her?
...
Yep...
ME. Oh. My. Goodness. Then I was so embarrassed that
I didn't remember talking to her!!!
Fortunately, she is one of the best people ever, and she said, "Girl, you are going to have times like that. Don't you think a THING about it! I have thought of calling you so many times, but I didn't want to call and make a bad day worse, and I just would put it off and didn't know what to do..."
So we had a nice talk, and I guess all is well, but I feel so silly. I told her I'd been calling all around to see who, if anyone, told her. Shaking my head. I also told her about missing the dentist appointment a couple weeks ago.
She gave me a good idea! She said her daughter puts all her appointments in her phone for her, and then she gets the reminder in time that she can't miss it.
I called Cousins 1 & 2 back to let them know they were off the hook, and this lady is doing well. I didn't call Cousin 3 because he doesn't care anyway, I think. He's probably already forgotten about it.
I did that for the two upcoming this week.
Also today, after lying in bed watching the news about Wisconsin this morning, I did accomplish a few things.
-- I walked my 15 minutes while talking to DS on the phone. (Gosh, why didn't I walk while talking to cousin 1 last night? I'd have made my quota for the month!
)
-- After all those phone calls, I s2s.
-- I cleaned out the refrigerator, out of date food. I throw out a LOT of food lately, it seems. Moldy cheese... past its date buttermilk... moldy rolls from Thanksgiving... the extra pack of cinnamon bread from Domino's a week or so ago... It's a real waste. I need to figure this out.
-- I went out to eat with DS and dgrands... and we stopped at dmom's and helped her get lights on her Christmas tree.
-- Took a picture of a picture of some people whom she can't identify. I plan to visit my great-aunt tomorrow and show it to her.
-- Took ds and dgrands home.
-- Stopped by dcousin's house to give her a small Bible dmom had found that belonged to my dad's grandfather. The Bible lists my aunt as his "closest kin." Dmom wanted daunt to have it.
Since getting home, I've wasted a lot of time on the internet -- before coming here -- and I need to review those Christmas cards and do stamps and return address stickers, but I may just give it up and try to go to bed at a more reasonable hour.
HRH scurried them out the door. Steroids - they cut to the chase, don't they?