Two Day Turn-Over

We made it home yesterday, but not without a hiccup.

Nail in our tire.  My car alerts to pressure issues and it alerted to a drop, but then held steady.  We thought it might be the temperature change but it wouldn't hold air.  

Zippy quick drive to Costco Tire Center before their service cutoff time and $11 later, all fixed.  Costco WINS so many times.

I got my Costco shopping done too -- wine, beef, cheese (the holiday triad).  Changed up my plans for yesterday, but I'm grateful it was an easy fix and nothing complicated.

Now I have 2 days to turn around a lot of things to get ready to go back to Asheville.  Some for the birthday celebration, some for Christmas plans.  AND, I got invited to an outdoor, vaccinated holiday open house Friday evening -- hostess gift and clothes for an outdoor event added to the list (choosing the bigger life so I'm going).

Our trip next week will have another packed car if I don't take stuff up this week.  That means wrapping some of the gifts, bringing some of the freezer food, etc.  I'll do what I can to get ready.  

Best laid plans and then something comes up (nail in tire).  I relax when I'm prepared and that means being a little ahead of schedule.  Best news is I have these 2 days to myself (hubby left on a business trip).  I can spread out, leave stuff all over the counter, leave gifts out, do all my things in full space.  He would be fine if I spread into all the areas because I'm on a tight timeline, but I feel bad taking over the house with my projects.

On a random side note -- saw a baker I follow on IG say type into your search engine, "I need more" and see the first option.  Hers was COOKIES.  Mine was SPACE.  Wow.

And here's the freezer.  Big, clunky in the space but it WORKS ... amen.  Sets for either freezer or refrigerator and has lots of space.

Today I have 3 "big" must-dos and a few optional hope-to-do.  Grocery shop for the appetizers, make the 7 day cookie dough balls, make the pinwheels.  Optional is wrapping some gifts, house chores and start packing.  Tuesday is FULL and I'm trying to offload some things.

Welcome to the holiday scramble.  Two week for me this year.  I need to remember to enjoy it.  Have a good start to the week.  Later gators.