To do:

• Finish holiday shopping


• Pick up ingredients for Christmas dishes to be made for Friday


• Ignore intermittent dizziness due to congested head


• Sleep?


• Birthday


• Brace for excessive amount of quality family time


• Prep/wrap presents


• Cook holiday dishes


• More holiday baking?


• Sleep? Please?


• Coffee

One of these years I'll take my mother's advice and schedule my birthday for June 23 instead of December...in the meantime, it's the usual pre-Christmas breakneck speed countdown...in a weird way I love it, but I swear it's going to kill me one of these fine years.