Random New Year Stuff
Thank you's to tos_lover for the virtual gift and to mingsmommy for the lovely Christmas card!
I have to go back to work tomorrow. I haven't been in the office since the 21st of December and I've loved every minute of it. I have been "on call" but that's only accounted for maybe 8 hours of actual work over the last 10 days. It's been so nice. I got a box of small appliances, a vacuum cleaner and some lamps over to The Bargain Loft Thrift Store and I did lots of cooking and tea drinking. Note to tos_lover: I'm addicted to McVities now and thankfully, I found that World Market carries them.
Christmas was very uneventful. I got some great gifts from my boss/friend, Suzanne, my friend, Nancy, and my mom, aunt and cousin. I also got a hideous sweatshirt from my mom (I've told her a hundred times to never, ever buy me clothes) but she also sent a couple of cool gift cards so I can overlook the sweatshirt. Actually, I'll give it to the cats to lay on.
I'm a single girl, which means I have no hubby to give me nice little prezzies. So I have a tradition. Every Christmas my "pretend" husband gives me gifts. This year he got me a Cuisinart Griddler and a Cuisinart toaster. He's also going to buy me this amazing video camera that Suzanne found at a conference last month. It's better than anything I've seen in stores (HD, streams video to the web, night video, etc), it's the size of or smaller than a digital camera, and it costs half the price. It's also only available via internet, which is why it costs half the price.
The only resolutions I'm making this year are regarding writing. I want to at least match the four fics I finished and posted in 2007 and I want one of those to be the Brass/Annie sequel to "Open Ends". There are a couple of other Brass WIP's that I want to get done as well. Thanks to wiccagirl24 I'd also like to dust off an Avengers novel I started back in '97 (yes, that's over 10 years ago) and a VTTBOTS fic that's been hanging out there forever.
The Washington Post has listed their list of What's In and Out for 2008 here. I was happy to see Vinho Verde on the In list. Thanks to my dad it has become my favorite wine.
I'm so happy to see my Caps have come alive. I went to the game just before Thanksgiving and they were pitiful. The next day they fired their coach and brought in Bruce Boudreau. Boudreau has really turned things around. Yes, the Caps have lost some games but they've played like a team that actually gives a crap now and they've scored 14 goals in the last two games (wins) against the Ottawa Senators.
I have to go back to work tomorrow. I haven't been in the office since the 21st of December and I've loved every minute of it. I have been "on call" but that's only accounted for maybe 8 hours of actual work over the last 10 days. It's been so nice. I got a box of small appliances, a vacuum cleaner and some lamps over to The Bargain Loft Thrift Store and I did lots of cooking and tea drinking. Note to tos_lover: I'm addicted to McVities now and thankfully, I found that World Market carries them.
Christmas was very uneventful. I got some great gifts from my boss/friend, Suzanne, my friend, Nancy, and my mom, aunt and cousin. I also got a hideous sweatshirt from my mom (I've told her a hundred times to never, ever buy me clothes) but she also sent a couple of cool gift cards so I can overlook the sweatshirt. Actually, I'll give it to the cats to lay on.
I'm a single girl, which means I have no hubby to give me nice little prezzies. So I have a tradition. Every Christmas my "pretend" husband gives me gifts. This year he got me a Cuisinart Griddler and a Cuisinart toaster. He's also going to buy me this amazing video camera that Suzanne found at a conference last month. It's better than anything I've seen in stores (HD, streams video to the web, night video, etc), it's the size of or smaller than a digital camera, and it costs half the price. It's also only available via internet, which is why it costs half the price.
The only resolutions I'm making this year are regarding writing. I want to at least match the four fics I finished and posted in 2007 and I want one of those to be the Brass/Annie sequel to "Open Ends". There are a couple of other Brass WIP's that I want to get done as well. Thanks to wiccagirl24 I'd also like to dust off an Avengers novel I started back in '97 (yes, that's over 10 years ago) and a VTTBOTS fic that's been hanging out there forever.
The Washington Post has listed their list of What's In and Out for 2008 here. I was happy to see Vinho Verde on the In list. Thanks to my dad it has become my favorite wine.
I'm so happy to see my Caps have come alive. I went to the game just before Thanksgiving and they were pitiful. The next day they fired their coach and brought in Bruce Boudreau. Boudreau has really turned things around. Yes, the Caps have lost some games but they've played like a team that actually gives a crap now and they've scored 14 goals in the last two games (wins) against the Ottawa Senators.