my beloved martha has a cutie cute 2 year old niece that i had the delight and pleasure of shopping for this weekend. her family spoils her silly and sent me savaging for adorable american winter clothes. it was heaven! i was reminded of a time when my children would let me doll them up as i wished. i bought dresses and stockings and fleecy pants and jackets with hoodies and flowery shirts with ruffles and bows (all cotton, of course, no scratchy mess here!) but the darlingest darling thing i got was a butterfly costume that her momma put in a special request for. i get rewarded with pisco sours! yum!

i have the, no-food-in-the-house-but-im-about-to-leave-the-country-so-i-dont-want-to-go-shopping syndrome. tonight? pizza delivery. pizza's appropriate! im getting myself all ready for the italy portion of my travels!

here's the list o things to be done....

- spend quality time with my children

- clean out the "cool truck" (Kühlschrank, in german)

- vacuum floors

- wash dry and fold laundry

- clean sheets on bed

- pack

- buy tortillas for the martha because apparently they dont have those in germany.

- pick up pants at seamstress

- edit pictures for rebecca's boy ( ill do it bec, i swear!)

- scrub bathroom

- take out trash

- pluck eyebrows

- pedicure

- get way way overcompensating caught-up at work

- clean out car

- clean off desk

- tie everything down that could fly away, incase hurricane comes

- organize ipod

- buy second season of weeds to watch on plane

- charge extra computer battery

- sacrifice small animal to ensure that i am able to get all of these things done.

- remember all the things that i forgot to put on this list.

itinerary:

- friday early arrival to frankfurt airport which has not one, but two sex shops (crazy...whoever heard of such?)

- reunited with the martha

- sleep

- massage

- dinner

- sleep

- haircut

- on road to austria (innsbruck)

- life-o-tourist

- sleep

- on road to venice