crunch time.....

ok, so i have procrastinated long enough over this holiday feast....and as soon as i can get myself up out of this chair i am going to make the stuffing, the sweet potatoes, the cranberry relish and the spinach artichoke casserole.....i swear i will......so that i do not have to make these things tomorrow morning, when i will be picking up a bit before company comes.....and setting the table....you know the drill.....i had planned on doing these pre-prep tasks monday...then tuesday......and now i am quickly running out of pre-prep options......i couldn't possibly be doing any meaningful food prep when my sisterinlaw drives up....i have a reputation to uphold.....such as it is.....as i stillsit here i have no clue how i managed to cook for so many people for so many years.....when cooking for 10 seems to be a......burden is not the correct word....challenge?....that isn't quite what i am looking for, either.....and i would just as soon read rather than cook at this very moment....i have picked up a bookclub book that i put down a while back......wallace stegner's crossing to safety.......i think i like it better this go-around.....but it is not the next selection......there is a book for january that coincides with centre's writer in residence....whose name escapes me and whose book i cannot look up without author's name.....something about muses.......hmmm......as i was leaving the bike shop with cayle, a person who thinks my middle child hung the moon came in with her eldest who is at centre....and julie assured me that stephan probably wants to chill....and not to worry about him this weekend........she commented that she would prefer a weekend to herself now and again.....wise words......now.....if i could just get up out of this chair.....