The Christmas craziness is finally over for another year. We hung the stockings, put up the tree, spoiled everyone and ate way too much.

I managed to pick things that both parents liked, which most of the time is a challenge.

Santa was very kind and brought me a new Ottlite. The down side to this is that I have to rearrange furniture to make room for it. Which is not a problem, in fact I'm kinda looking forward to it.




My brother put decals on Dad's truck and had one left when he was done - so it got put on the top of my laptop - as you can imagine I just hate it (not)









I've managed to sneak in some stitching time - on Earthdancer still. I'm thinking that I'm going to pull out Giggles for awhile. Don't want to burn out on this one. Most likely tomorrow.


When I was out today I picked up a Christmas tree for next year. They're on sale right now so I found a nice 3.5' one for under $8. I haven't been bothering with a tree but I think it will help to have it to kick start the holiday season.

Oh and I found a new pair of shoes too. Yeah for gift cards.

As I was going through the pictures I took at the parents I found this one -- yeah it was that much fun.

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone:

Just a quick note to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. I hope that Santa was good to everyone and that you're all enjoying friends and family...

I'm enjoying eating too much and bugging Dad - can it get any better than that??

Rock on

Oh man where is the time going?? My poor list of things to do is now shot. There's no way that I'm getting things done so I said to myself "Shelf let's say we're not doing it all and just do the major things" and that's what I've been doing.

I feel a lot less stressed now. If something doesn't get done, opps. Bad me.

Sunday night Dani and I took time out of our Christmas crazy schedules to rock out. Three Days Grace put on an excellent show although the opening acts were a draw. Loved the first; the second Dani and I spent the entire time texting each other and wondering when it was going to be over - someone in the crowd agreed and yelled out to put the first band back on. It was an awesome time; our next concert isn't until March.

One of our students has headed back to school to finish their last semester. Before leaving each of us was presented with a print that was selected for us from Vancouver where said student is from : this is my thunderbird and killerwhale (by Joe Wilson). Totally cool and makes me want to dig out the bear cub. Also going to totally miss said student and kinda hope the stars a line that they return....


I've managed to ignore the before mentioned to do list and get a little stitching done. For some reason Earthdancer is really holding my attention so I'm working on it. Seeing it's one of the pieces that has a deadline I figure I should go for it.

And now back to the list.... or a nap not sure which ;)

Still not done

I'm still working on my mystery stitching thing.

I've been trying to finish getting organized for Christmas, which is going fairly well.

I did manage to squeeze a little time in on Earthdancer, but it really doesn't look like it.

Off to work on the mystery thing, which is getting pretty close to being done.

Say it ain't so

Croak

That croaking sound that's echoing in the apartment? It's not froggies in the stitching. I wish....

It seems that I have managed to come down with the cold that a couple of my co workers had last week. I am not very impressed.

On the plus side, the Christmas party Friday night was a riot and we all had a wonderful time. I even have some video to relive the experience.

Now I've finished my mystery stitching and am going to pull out Giggles. Or PL. Which ever is on the top....

Secret stitching

It's been busy here. On the weekend I headed off to the parents to visit for Mom's birthday. Dad and I treated her to dinner, flowers and cake. Dad and I also made our yearly shopping trip to do his Christmas shopping. We even wrapped!

I've been busy around the apartment, although you can't really tell. Tuesday night Dani and I actually hit the gym together. How odd, I didn't think of that as something we'd ever do together.

I've been working on a top secret can't share yet project. It's almost done, then I can get back to other stitching.

Tomorrow night is our office Christmas party. We're invading a co-workers place, ordering pizza and I heard something about trivia. That should be fun. I've made cookies for that. Yum.

The picture doesn't really mean anything, I was just tired of the cold, damp and gray weather we've been having. It rained all day, so depressing.

Was that progress?

The re-organization of the closet has taken a lot longer than I thought it would. I have managed to get everything back in and will be relocating things from another area, so it's not done. Getting there.

I've been working on the Christmas baking, I have to have it done for the Office Party on the 4th. I have two more kinds to make.

I've been working on my to-do list, I've actually managed to take three things off in the last couple of days.

I found a little time to work on Giggles, who now mostly has a boot - I have a blend to put in two stitches so that will wait until I do the other one.

Tonight after my workout at the gym, the locket room was crazy busy. I managed to finish at the same time as a class. So I thought what the *&^% and put on my jeans over my workout pants - and they fit. It's been forever since I've be able to do that.

So - progress? Maybe?