Check, check, check

There are a lot of things to be done when one is leaving for a month. We are making very good progress.

• Replace broken kitchen sink faucet - check.
  
• Purchase Euros - check.
  
• Photocopy passports in case of theft - check.
• Compile all itineraries, reservations, driving directions, maps and contact info - check.
  
• Pay and pre-pay bills - check.
• Refill prescriptions and get really good sleeping pills - check.
• Buy memory cards for digital camera - check.
• Stock up on food bars, nuts, dried fruit and salmon jerky from Trader Joe's - check.
• Return all library items - check.
• Haircuts - check.
  
• Paint toenails - check. (Just to be clear, that one's just for me, not Enrico.)
  
• Arrange ride to airport - check.
• Clean house - very close to check. (Oh, the irony that our house is never so clean as when we're about to hand it over it to a housesitter.)
  

Still to be done:

• Bathe dogs. (For the benefit of the housesitter, not the dogs.)
• Write grant proposal on behalf of the organization I volunteer for. (Yeah, I'm kind of letting this go to the last minute - butwhy should I change my tried & true ways now when so many of my best grant proposals have been written under pressure?)
• Make monthly computer backup.
• Buy reading material.
• Get additional email storage space.
• Stop newspaper.
• Create deatiled housesitter instructions.
  
• Do final round of laundry.
  
• Pack.

Four days to go!!