List of dog-related tasks.
Freecycle some giveaway stuff and ask for people’s freezer-burned meat in return (for dog food).
Defrost some meat for the next few dog meals.
Think about buying kibble for them for when I go to the lake so the dogsitters don’t have to portion out the raw meat. (This item dates the list to the first half of August before I went to the lake. Maybe even the end of July; I sometimes do plan that far ahead!)
Receipts from a trip to the lake.
First I planned for the lake, then I shopped for the lake, then I packed for the lake, then I blogged about the lake. But while I was actually AT the lake, I had a couple of lunches and bought a souvenir (a magenta nightshirt plastered with cartoon owls and the caption Hoo’s Tired—I am nothing if not sartorially discriminating). The time stamp on that receipt is wrong; I can guarantee that at 0943 hrs, I was still drinking coffee on the dock and sketching the cabins across the lake.
List for Going to the Lake I
It started with the list of stuff I had to or hoped to get done before I left (above).
Then I needed sublists for packing:
List for Going to the Lake II
List for Going to the Lake III
List for Going to the Lake IV
List for Going to the Lake V
These lists were actually enough! I had lots of stuff I didn’t need, as always (I’m an overpacker). I could have used a heavier sweater on the last morning, but I MacGyvered a warm outfit out of beach scarves and other stuff, so it was all good.
Reminder note about getting a bathing suit.
The only thing more demoralising than bathing suit shopping is bra shopping. But I really need one to go to the lake this weekend. My old one is from August 2001. I’ve been trying to ignore this note for weeks. But it’s time.
Notes to Self 