Is it “to-do” or just “todo”. Todo? That looks wicked wrong.

I want to start jotting down my to-do lists for the weekend and/or week ahead. Not so I can try to be all crazy organized or add structure to my life, but just so I can get a list in my head (and in the journal) of what I want to do. Last weekend I was so busy getting ready to start working on the stairs, I almost forgot that I wanted to do a few other things. I have at least two online to-do lists (tadalist.com and rememberthemilk.com), but I use those more for the structured “this has to be done by x” type of list (though, errr, I have about five over due right now). If I don’t accomplish everything on this list, so be it. Anyhows, here is what I hope to do this weekend…

  • Work on the stairs. I’m actually going to start this in a few minutes, since today is my “every other Friday off” day and I want to get some work done on it before tomorrow. I’m going to remove the stain on the top two stairs, the bigger “landing” type stairs. That should be fun. Chemicals are always fun. Gotta move Milli’s stuff downstairs and lock her in the front of the house before I do that, though. Cats and chemicals don’t mix. I think. While the chemicals are doing their thing, I’ll continue prepping all the individual rails so they don’t get stain on them when I stain the tops/bottoms. What a pain. If I finish that this weekend, I’ll start sanding and cleaning the parts I will be staining. I also have a few touch-up spots to take care of on the walls I painted last weekend.
  • Warm the house up. Richard is coming by today to help with our energy efficiency issues. Our house is cold all the time, and he’s a guru with everything, so he’s gonna help us figure out what to do.
  • Sunday, I plan to lay a beat down on Tom on the racquetball court and then probably relax and get ready for the superbowl little gathering. We were gonna go to Katy’s peeps for it, but now we’re having about five people over, so I’m gonna make mini burgers. mmmm. It’ll be the first time I use the awesome griddle Troy and Elaine got me for Christmas. Sweet.
  • Business-wise, I really really need to finish my company website. The design is done, I just don’t have the wording completed yet. I need to order business cards, and finish some paperwork for a business savings account with Net Bank. I need to put in a bit more time with the help application, which I actually worked on a bit this week and re-architected some of how it works, making it super brain dead easy to plug in.
  • Finally, I want to open the hater site for business and post the first entry. Troy is going to design a fancy look for the site, but I can start it going without waiting on the good design, I’d rather just get it going.

Now that I’ve written it, that sounds like a hella busy weekend for a lazy slacker like myself, especially since it doesn’t include plans like going out for drinkys tonight or having brunch with the family tomorrow. I believe that warrants an “oooh weee”.