ChristmasPartyToDo

Month Before

• Write invites. "If you're bringing a casserole dish, don't forget to put your name in masking tape on the bottom of that rascal!"
• Send
• Send e invites
• Start wine or cider for mulling
• Create Gay Christmas Carol book from chebucto email 2008-12
• Make dog grooming appointment
• Ask Trish to ask Zee if she can work that evening
• Repair punch fountain: get Plexiglass glue.
• Buy Dollar Store boxes for nuts & bolts

Week Before

• Check napkins, plates, bowls, cutlery & add to groc list
• Get tree
• Buy 4L wine for mulling if you didn't make it
• Find Xmas music - words
• Find Xmas music - recorded, midis on 3.5" floppies
• Tidy house
• Clean bathroom
• Buy grocs (below)
• Make nuts & bolts
• Move kitchen Aerogarden

Day Before

• Thaw turkey
• Calculate turkey & ham cooking schedule, enter below
• Deco tree
• Deco house
• Get card table
• Freeze big ice cubes
• Set table
• Make chip dip
• Fill Aladdin lamp with oil

Morning Of

• Set up fountain
  • Wash
  • Setup
  • Spotlight
• Buy flowers & rolls
• Make fireplace look like it's ready for a fire
• Turkey, finish defrosting
• Put pop outdoors to chill
• Set up reuse/recycling system

Afternoon Of

• Turkey on at: __________
• Ham on at: ________
• Nap
• Bedrooms ready for coats

Evening Of

• Make gravy
• Put ashtrays on table on deck
• Mull wine
• Make Punch
• Warming plate on
• Light candles + Aladdin lamp

Shopping List

• Turkey 10 - 15lbs
• Cranberry Jelly
• Ham
• Wine if I didn't make any
• Dinner rolls - only a dozen
• Onion Soup Mix
• Sour Cream
• Chips
• Punch Stuff
  • 3x each lemons, oranges, limes
  • 3x each frozen cranberry, 5-Alive, Lemon, etc.
  • 5x store-brand diet 7-Up