Let the wild rumpus start

November is here — the damn elections are mostly over — and so begins the wondrous time of year involving comfort food, friends/family, music, light, snow, presents, holiday specials and (hopefully) goodwill toward others.

Despite the madness of the past few weeks, I’m happy to say that I’ve made a serious dent in my holiday checklist:

✓ Make birthday/Christmas wishlist
✓ Buy Christmas wreath
✓ Buy Christmas cards/stamps
✓ Make the shopping list for Thanksgiving
✓ Request Xmas card addresses
✓ Finish Christmas shopping
✓ Shop for Thanksgiving dinner
✓ Shop for Christmas cookie ingredients
Start baking!
Prepare Thanksgiving feast
Bake birthday cake
Celebrate my 45th birthday
Decorate the house for the holidays
Write the Christmas letter and cards
Buy any last-minute gifts
Wrap all of the presents
To the post office!
Make the shopping list for Christmas
Order roast beast
Shop for Christmas dinners
Keep baking!
Buy Christmas trees
Decorate Christmas trees
Celebrate Yule
Light the luminaries
Go on our annual Christmas Eve drive of lights with the late, great Stuart McLean
Prepare Christmas feast