I did accomplish a number of tasks today, including printing out directions to the Saturday party and the recipe for the sour cherry upside-down cake, paying all-the-bills-except-the-mortgage, and reserving my Monday night lodging.
I still need to decide what to wear (I bought a lovely red sundress at the Gap today and it will be coming with me), find the mortgage bill and send it off, figure out how my new telephone works, and gather items for my mini-ritual of "drowning" my troubles of the last year in the sea.