List after list

My melancholic nature comes right up whenever I am preparing to for a significant event, exam, period of my life etc. I just keep writing list after list after list, and it sure it rearing its head with a birthday party that the youth group is planning for a 70th year old man from our church. I eagerly jumped at the opportunity to take up the responsibility to be in charge of the catering aspect of the party. In his mind, he was just planning to have a simple BBQ party with just sausages, patties, a couple of salads and soft drinks. But it was a different story in my maid. Numerous finger food and cake recipes raced through my mind with my hand trying desperately to capture my train of thought on paper. It was becoming an obsession so much so that it was the first and last thing that I think of every day and night.

However, with some expert advice from a colleague at work, I managed to come up with a simple menu that would be easy to prepare and still be below budget for us. (we only have a maximum of $300 to spend for 60 people and that works out to be like $5 /person.) The menu is as below:

On the Grill
Sausages
Mushroom skewers
Grilled Onions

Salads
Fresh Garden Salad
Chicken Noodle Lettuce Cups

Finger Foods
Cheesy Muffins
Satay Beef Finger Sandwiches

Dessert
Summer Fruit Bowl
Mini chocolate and blueberry muffins with cream cheese frosting

A birthday cake for him (which I will only reveal to everyone after the event, in case you still don't really know me, I really love giving people surprises be it in real life or blogsphere =p)

Josh and I just got most of the ingredients to make the food today and tomorrow is there for me to get the little things that I have missed out on today's shop. God has been really good to make sure that we got a few good discounts like the mushrooms which would have cost us $3 a small box was reduced to $1. And that allowed us to get more than we planned for. And we also managed to get gourmet sausages at a reduced price similar to the normal thin ones. That made up half of our sausages for us. (yea!!)

I'm sort of half looking forward and half anxious about Friday. 'Cos there will be a mad rush to chop up all the salad stuff, make all the cupcakes and sandwiches, fruits etc. And to make sure all that need to be chilled are chilling and those that need to be defrost are being defrosted. I should really stop here now or my melancholic nature will rear its ugly head and start coming up with a list right at this moment. I should really go to bed now having at work at 8.30am tomorrow. Will update about how everything went. Pray for me and wish me all the best. (*smile anxiously*)