I realized I didn't give the "holiday post-mortem" so what better place to do it than at work ;-)

I did Christmas meal grocery shopping on Dec 24. I went to BJs first because I knew there were certain things that *had* to be gotten in bulk, but I figured since I was there and since it wasn't too crowded (for once), I'd get what I could off my ( Read more... )

Confirmed holiday guest list

• 17 adults: Me & Jim, Big Jim & Lefki (my parents), Rita & Frank (Jim's parents), Yianni & Abbey (my brother & his girlfriend), Rachel & Adam (Jim's sister and her husband), Gil & Caroline (Abbey's parents), Fernando & Natalia (Abbey's grandparents), Mark & Nancy (Adam's parents), and Oma Edna (Adam's grandmother).
• 2 ( Read more... )

( so doot de do, and hickory dock etc.... )

What a day! Our goal was simple: Drive from Berlin to Wareham to pick up some Christmas ornaments from my mom, then drive to Lincoln, RI to cut down the Christmas tree we tagged last weekend. We got off to a late-ish start; we slept in a bit because we got home from Cathy's party late last night. Boy, my sad duff is old. A few glasses of wine ( Read more... )

House

• Jim and I picked up some blinds for our bathrooms at Linens N Things (thank you 40% off liquidation). Our two bathrooms both have windows; the upstairs window doesn't show much scandalousness, unless you're changing right in front of it, so we picked up a nice offwhite roman shade to replace the ratty yellowing old skool roll shade. The window ( Read more... )