Complete is such an awesome word

Vastly overrated, yes.  But awesome nonetheless.

For today, I have crossed the following off my list:

• 2007 taxes  - completed and ready to be filed tomorrow
• financial aid packet - still needs to be delivered to Fed Ex in the a.m.  BUT DONE!
• 5 reenrollment/parent volunteer/various other classifications of the packets filled out and turned in
• New application for Riley - two pages, plus birth and baptism certificates, social security card, shot record and physical forms - all that is missing is a letter for an IEP, which I'll get in two weeks
• checkbook balanced - I do this every two days, but I've missed a session or three in the past week
• laundry caught up
• garbage bagged up and taken out
• five bags ready to deliver to the thrift store
• van emptied out of cups/food/wrappers/spare socks/cleats/water bottles/important papers
• missing progress report located - among the tax papers

Tomorrow my preschooler has Hibernation Day - they are to attend school in their pajamas with a sleeping bag and pillow, prepared to watch movies and eat snacks all day. I'm in LOVE with this idea.  I badly want to have a Hibernation Day!

So I was pondering something while at work.  You know how women make faces when they apply mascara - opening their mouths and lifting their chins, with eyes half closed?  (Shut up, I know I'm not the only one!)  I noticed one of my co workers today doing the same thing I do while pouring water - holding her hand out to the side.  I have ZERO idea why I do this - although I think it may have something to do with a saying of my dad's.  I never EVER understood it, but he'd say, "Pour it like you mean it."  Like I mean it?  I almost always miss whatever I'm pouring into, I must mean to make a mess. 

Do you make any kind of unconscious compensation like those listed above?  (I know, how would you know if it was unconscious?)  Humor me.  I can't pour with my hand down and I can't put on mascara with my chin down - I've tried. 

Comments

[Shannon]

Congrats on getting all of that accomplished! And in one day! I'm lucky if I have time to finish one load of laundry (wash/dry/fold/put away). You rock!

[Headless Mom]

Good job on the to-do list!

I always drink coffee with my pinkie out-as if I'm perpetually having tea with the queen.

[amy]

I apparently have a 'knitting' face. My kids and dh crack up all the time if I'm so totally involved in my knitting and holding my jaw just so.
We love that my dh can't do a single thing without his tongue hanging out and half the time he doesn't even realize it. He denies this habit like he denies his snoring.

[dabbler]

Ha! That's so funny. I do the same thing. I also involuntarily close my eyes every time I take a bite of food. My parents used to tease me when I was kid...I guess it kind of looked like I was in heaven every time we had a meal. Congrats on scratching so many tasks off your list--such a good feeling!

[Mama Bear]

Just have to ask if you did mean 2006 taxes, or was it 2007? :) And congrats on accomplishing so many tasks. Way to go!
Hmmm, unconscious habits: Miss 9 does all her artistic endeavors with her tongue out of her mouth. Me? I have to have all the hangers organized before I can even start the laundry. I also suck in my cheeks, a lot, whenever. Don't know why I do that. Maybe I'm trying to look thin.

[beth]

Excellent work on the to-do list Carmen! What a weight off your shoulders!
I HAVE to wriggle my feet around while I fall asleep, my mom says I've done it since birth. I'm aware of it now, but why stop? It feels nice!
:)

[Vanessa]

I do the mascara face too. It was pointed out to me many years ago by my mother who insists she does NOT make this face (but really she does, she's just in denial).

I think I may have my own hibernation day, that's an awesome idea!

[Erin]

Neither my husband nor I can spoon a mouthful of food into my 6-month-old's mouth without involuntarily opening and closing our own mouths (as though we were the ones taking the bite) along with her. I try to make it less obvious when I'm out in public, so as not to look like a total loon.

Also, adding my congratulations to the everyone else's - way to go! It feels so good to get stuff done.

[kristine with a k]

What a great day of accomplishment !
I have not done as much, but I took 2 good kids swimmimg at the gym and there will be dinner for all 7 of us.
When I style my hair, I close one eye. My 12 year old daughter pointed that out to me. I also do the mascara thing and I shake salt on my food holding the shaker about 8 inches above the food.
What a dork!

[J from Ireland]

Hee, I Pout my lips in front of the mirror when I do my hair/make up, my kids think its hilarious, I think my mother does the same.

[Elizabeth]

I cannot for the life of me put on lipstick without a mirror. My mother used to give me a very hard time about not knowing where my own mouth was. So, if I need to reapply lipstick without a mirror, I hold it in my thumb and forefinger and rest the remaining fingers on my chin and very carefully use those "chin fingers" as a pivot. I still usually go overboard somewhere.