Hyper-Organized

So at six months pregnant and based on past experience, I'm realizing that this baby is going to be here before I know it. Now begins the frenzy of tying up loose ends before she arrives.

Pre-Viva, I used to be fairly organized. I will say that even post-Viva, while I was not working, I was still fairly organized. I confess that I used to have an Excel spreadsheet where I would tabulate all my tax itemizations by month, by category, which I would update in a timely manner. I used to balance my checkbook. I was very much a list person. I had a home filing system. And I actually filed stuff in it.

Now, not so much. I am still the paperwork and dealing-with-bureaucracy person for the family, but I have this vague feeling of dread in the back of my brain that I am not so very much on top of it. Nonetheless, I am pleased to say that with two cars whose leases were ending in August, we have already bought two cars in a two-week period, turned in one of the previous cars, and are waiting on inspection on the other before we can turn it in. All three cars currently in our driveway are insured, even though we only bought one of them this past Saturday. I have also turned in paperwork to refinance my car loan at two percentage points lower than what the dealer was asking. Score ten points for me in the car category.

Now, in no particular order, here are some other pressing "to do" items which must be done over the course of the next couple of months:

1. Arrange a group playdate for the fruit of my loins this coming weekend;
2. Decide whether I want to have some kind of get-together for my birthday the weekend of August 9th-10th and exactly what that would entail (togas? pig roast? hanging around eating blocks of cheese in our underwear?);
3. Finish registering at Babies'R'Us and Amazon since I am having a work baby shower thrown for me at the end of August;
4. Arrange some sort of informal get-together for friends and family in September;
5. Do yet more exhaustive research to see if (a) we should switch Viva to a different school; and (b) if so, which school has any openings for kindergarten starting in just over a month;
6. Figure out if the house I saw on Craigslist this morning is workable for our family (which might mean we could get into FREE excellent public school kindergarten, rendering my research moot);
7. If so, pack and move (wow, three little words make it sound SO simple!);
8. Interview, hire and train a junior grant writer to pick up some of the slack while I'm on maternity leave;
9. Submit as many grant requests as humanly possible before I go on maternity leave;
10. Research Halloween costumes for Viva since the baby will be here a couple of days before Halloween and as you may know, Viva never suggests a costume that exists in the real world so I will probably have to make one;
11. Start Christmas shopping (No, seriously. When the baby gets here I can't imagine I'll be able to do much of anything like that.);
12. Have lunch.