- Sneak wife’s last present into house and wrap it without getting caught.
- Eat nutritious raspberry PopTart for Breakfast.
- Read another chapter of “Rhett Butler’s People.”
- Find out what the cats are tearing up in the livingroom.
- Steal firewood from drunk guy next door.
- Remind people to read short stories on my Eye Blink Fiction site and leave comment for chance to win copy of “Tethered.”
- Check fruitcake supply.
- Wish Merry Christmas to Nancy, FF&F, Elizabeth, Montucky, Pinhole, Nora, Esmaa, Sue, Freya, Lesa, Johanna, Doug, Ian, Josh, Barry, Mary, Rebecca, Trish and Roxane.
- Put out more bread crumbs and sunflower seeds for birds.
- Remind cats not to eat birds.
- Put link to Montucky’s snow photographs on my Facebook page.
- Have “precautionary shot” of Scotch to keep from getting flu.
- Ask Obama why he appointed Ken Salazar to Interior post.
- Lure more people to Writer’s Notebook weblog with post giving away first secret of storytelling.
- Adopt a wolf.
- Refurbish dreamcatchers for 2009.
- Send SPAM Christmas cards to Tammy22, Viagra Bob, EasyCredit Sue, and Mrs. Libertado Andelusia in Liberia as my way of saying thanks for all the goof ball e-mail you sent me this year.
- Buy ammo for shooting people with bah humbug attitude.
- Make sure I have a solid alibi.
- Smile more often.

Pretty good checklist, Malcolm! Reminded me of a couple I would have forgotten! Merry Christmas!
Then, too, there are a few things on this list I better make sure NOT to do.
Have a great Christmas, Montucky.
Malcolm