what I'm working on

So. Relaxing. I'm not so good at it. I don't have a lot of practice. Being lazy, though, I've got plenty of practice at that but it's always consumed with some level of guilt about what I should be doing instead of reading/watching tv/running through the woods/geocaching etc.  I have a list of things I'd like to accomplish before I have surgery next week (t-6 days and counting, or see the dorky little widget I found to countdown for me - too lazy to actually do the math myself, you see).

The list isn't that long, but I think I might be crazy.

1. Hang the new curtains.
2. Ask Kevin to cut mom's lawns
3. Buy that snazzy red chaise lounge on clearance at the Brick in Leduc.
4. Get the snazzy red chaise lounge home and into the house.
5. Eat remaining vegetables and fruit 
6. Go buy more vegetables and fruit
7. Eat the new vegetables and fruit.
8. Walk down to the creek and check out the current wildflower population. Maybe take some pictures of wildflowers.
9. Create my Brazil presentation. I was originally accepted as a poster presentation, which was fine by me, not my favorite form of presenting, but take what you get, I'm going to Brazil, blah blah.  Then I got an email from the chair asking if I'd do an oral presentation. Hells bells, yes and thank you. I've looked at the schedule and I've got 10 minutes. 10 minute presentation? Easy peasy.  I do hope they have microphones for who knows how my voice will be at that point post-surgery. I have started this already. I saved over an old presentation (my MSc defense slides, and changed the title slide). Go me. So this should take me like 20 minutes or so to finish. (HAH!)
10. Collaborate on a poster for Val. I have looked up the size requirements from the conference, created the header and footer and saved it as Val Brazil Poster.  This should take maybe 50 minutes to complete (HAH!)
11. Finish a brochure for a conference we're putting on in October.  I've got the visual look down, now I need simply to get  have the topics/speakers, etc into the thing. It won't be finished as of tomorrow (our next meeting date), but it will be is now far enough along that one of the excellent members of our team can finish it off.
12. Have acceptable foods for my recovery time. I think this means soup. I could make soup (I actually bought a random soup mix thing last week. Could I make it and then freeze it? I am not a soup maker.  Maybe I should just stick to canned soup.
13. Pray continually (this should have been #1, but I guess I was distracted by the whole doing of it  and neglected to stick it in. Better late than never).
14. Collect acceptable DVDs for viewing during recovery. Program the DVR. Download cheerful music to Ipod. 
15. Pack hospital bag.
16. Lay down when necessary.

I think that's quite enough to be going on with, don't you? Especially since I can concentrate for about 8 minutes at a time.  It just took me 20 minutes to log on to my work email. (It's hard at the best of times since I can never remember the address, then I don't remember my RSA code, then I mistype something.... you get the idea).

 There were going to be other things on the list related to work, but I did them before they ever got onto my list, or I've abandoned them as ridiculous and unimportant.

So that's what I am doing. I've watched 3 movies today as I've been working on this stuff (Ferris Bueller, Leap Day?, and The Sound of Music) between napping incidents. I also rewatched that glorious football game from last Friday night while I was summoning the energy to get out of bed this morning.  So fear not. 

 Now I'm driving myself into town to get those vegetables and fruit and some protein. The end.