Almost ready for Christmas

I took the advices yesterday and put the frozen turkey in the sink filled with water. I'm not sure how long I left it there - 4 hours or so. The water stayed cold the whole time. I know our well water is very cold and maybe the copper sink also kept it cold. I kept checking it to see if it was getting room temperature and I'd put in some more cold water, but it was cold the whole time. I'd say the turkey got a good day ahead of my original schedule now, LOL. I'll check it again tomorrow and see if I need to do that again for a bit to help it along.

That organic coffee I got not too long ago is awful. I decided to try it again, using my "strong" button on my Keurig, but that didn't help either. I just went downstairs and dumped it out and made myself a cup of good old Folgers (Dark Silk). I'll see if dd wants to try it/take it home with her. It seems too expensive to just throw away.

Yesterday morning I messaged a funny gif to dd (we had not been messaging yet) and at exactly the same time as I hit send, she hit send....to send me the exact same gif! We were like wait! what?! LOL. What are the odds that we would pick the same one?

I still have a bit of upstairs vacuuming to do this morning. I got the downstairs and part of the upstairs done yesterday, but my back can't take doing both on the same day, especially with the upstairs being all carpeting. I've also found, with the upstairs, it really helps if I just do one, maybe 2 rooms and then stop - before my back starts hurting, and then continue on with another room in a half or or so.

And all my presents need wrapping. I know that is going to hurt my back, so I think that's why I keep delaying it. When I did those 4 gifts for the delivery people, my back hurt just doing those. I think I'm just going to give it a try sitting on the floor, rather than bent over a table. Probably what I should be doing is using more bags and doing less wrapping! Or I should break up the wrapping into short sessions.

DD messaged and said they left at 5am instead of 4am, so have been on the road about an hour and 15 min. Getting near the first of 3 mountain passes to go over. First one is bare and wet.  Second one is rain and 3rd pass says scattered wet, so should be an easy drive over here. 

Ok, I just wrapped some presents sitting on the floor. Nope! LOL. That just hurts my hips and lower back. I have lots of bags - just going to use some of those to help the situation ;)  Work smarter, not harder.