Germany: A stressed-out list

First of all, today is Torsten's birthday! I might possibly be more excited about this than he is, but still: Happy birthday, sweetie. I love you so much. And also, I really think you are going to like your birthday present. And then maybe you'll be more excited about your birthday. I'm sorry you're grumpy about not being in your 20s anymore, but I have six more years of it, so I'll be in my 20s enough for both of us. How about that? Sound like a deal?

Err, anyway. We are leaving for Germany tomorrow evening, going to the airport directly from work. Which means that today is the day for me to accomplish the following things:

• Clean the kitchen and empty the trash so we don't get bugs while we're gone
  
• Do many loads of laundry
• Pack my smaller suitcase full of all the clothing I will need in Germany, including lots of warm clothes since apparently it will be cold at the North Sea
• Fit my smaller suitcase inside my larger suitcase that I am bringing in case we do lots of shopping, so that I only have to drag one suitcase to my office tomorrow
• Straighten our living room and bedroom and organize some things so that it won't be horribly depressing when we get back
• Put together the birthday presents we got for his mother and grandmother (his whole family was born in November, apparently, except his dad)
• Put our newspaper subscription on hold so that we don't end up with a huge pile of newspapers in front of our door, screaming, "Rob us!"
• Send contracts to a DJ and a hotel for the wedding, and tell another DJ that we aren't going to be using his services
  
• Collect wedding magazines to read on the plane
• Figure out how we're going to get to the airport tomorrow, since DC's international airport is not on the Metro
• Organize my desk at work so that people who need to use my computer to access Dreamweaver while I'm gone will not be surrounded by huge piles to the point where they can no longer see out
• Write a huge section of a website for a client
  
• Learn German

Also, you've all heard of the Autobahn, right? I always thought that it was just this one special road in Germany without a speed limit. But it turns out? That the word "Autobahn" refers to the entire highway system in the entire country of Germany, and none of the highways has a speed limit except in dangerous places or construction zones or whatever. Did you know that? Am I the only dumb one who thought it was just one road?

In any case, if anyone is in Germany next week and wants to look me up, I'll be the one hanging on for dear life in the Ford Puma that is doing over 200 kilometers per hour down the highway.