I made a list

Though the season is winding down - the bike-selling season, I mean - August is a busy month. Trek World, that trip to KC for Shimano and Pearl Izumi, then the progressive sale. And in between, Chris' birthday, Jack's birthday and our anniversary.

We're dealing with a lot of stuff here.

And because of the business, which included working on GamJams, VeloGear and freelancing for the World-Herald, I'm officially pretty much tired of everything. Well, tired of everything that isn't sitting around and doing nothing. Of course, it's mostly my fault. You know that Gallup Strengths Finder thing? I have responsibility as a strength, which means I tend to take on whatever comes my way.

That's probably a detriment now and then.

So I'm taking a couple of days off. Really, it's just one extra day off - Wednesday - but it feels like a super-huge vacation. And while I'm on my super-huge, yet deceptive, vacation, I have a list of things to do.

That seems a bit like it would defeat the purpose, but they're just little tasks that have been lost in the shuffle of the past six weeks.

For example:

• Killing the grass on our parking. It's been bad since we've been here, but it's worse now. So it gets the RoundUp treatment and then resodded. Maybe in the spring. But it needs to die first.
• Dogs to the vet. That's a fun one. Nothing major, just a couple of stinky dogs in the car.
  
• Took the glass recycling in (already done!). I really wish we didn't have to do that.
  
• Pick up license plates for the Camry.
• Go ride a bike. That should be an easy one.

There are more, I think. I don't have the list handy, but I'll be crossing things off as I go. Is it the best way to spend a vacation? Probably not. But it'll be nice to think about little, easily accomplished tasks instead of the big things I've been working on all summer.

And when I'm done with those little tasks, which really shouldn't take up too much time, I'm going to try to convince myself that I need to be psyched up about 'cross. I still like the idea of it, but I'm in a nice little groove right now - long, steady bike rides. Man, that's a lot of fun.