Labor Day...A Day of Rest

Here are my plans for Labor Day...

1.  Sleep in late - I wrote this post last night and scheduled it to post this morning, so if it's before 8am, I'm probably still in bed.

2.  Watch TV - This is pretty much a given at my house. Even if I'm not paying much attention to it, the TV is usually on.  However, Valentines Day did come in the mail from Netflix the other day. Who doesn't want to watch a movie staring every actor in Hollywood.

3.  Bring over my dressing table - Mom stripped and stained my dressing table this summer and it is finally finished, but I haven't brought it back to the house yet.  I can't wait.  All my stuff has been in boxes on my floor...plus it will make my bedroom look finished since my dresser was done 2 or 3 summers ago.

4.  Laundry - Nuf said...

5.  Bake Cupcakes - I've been waiting to get to try my hand at baking cupcakes and I'm pretty stoked.  I've decided to make mint/chocolate cupcakes.  Chocolate cupcakes with mint butter cream icing and topped with Andie's Mint pieces.  I will have to give most of them away though.  I plan on allowing myself 1 or 2 cupcakes from each batch I make.  The rest of these will go to family with a few taken to work for my lunch buddies.

What are your Labor Day Plans (or...what did you do for Labor Day)?

Personal Assistant

I've decided that I need a personal assistant for the following tasks:

1. Pay my bills - I am terrible at paying bills on time. I've actually set almost all my bills to be automatically paid in order to make sure they get paid on time.
2. Do my laundry - Or more specifically, fold and put away said laundry. I don't mind separating, washing and drying it; it's the folding and putting it away that I hate.
3. Take out the trash - This would including burning trash that can be put into the burn barrel as well as loading up the nonburnables into a truck and hauling it to our dump. (yes we burn stuff like paper, and yes we have our own dump).
4. Pick up random items at the store - I don't mind taking big grocery trips, but I hate having to run to the store for just a few items.
5. Help me out at work - I could really use someone to help make copies, enter grades and grade things that wouldn't take a college education to grade (worksheets, etc...not that I really give out too many worksheets because I think they are lame and don't really teach much or require much brain power to assign, grade or complete...but I digress). Technically, during the school year, I do have a student aide that can do a lot of this, but that is only one hour a day.
6. Pick up around the house - I am terrible about just putting things into piles. It would be awesome to have someone who would pick up after me and make sure things ended up where they belong.
   

If I actually thought I could find someone to come over and do stuff like this once a week, I would tighten my belt and find the money somewhere. You can hire someone to clean your house, but finding someone to do a bunch of menial jobs...that may only exist in the big cities. Also, I'm not sure I could find someone to do it just one day a week. Also, there is the problem that I don't need all those things done on the same day, but maybe I could figure something out if I knew someone was coming over to help out.

If you have any suggestions (other than me being less lazy)...send them my way!