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Hello and Happy New Year, everyone!
I had a really good time at home over the holidays. Mom and I did quite a few "movie afternoons" (and even ran into Jenn and her mom at one!), Jay took me to a Panthers game, I did the usual all-day visit with some of my dad's side of the family at Mamaw's house on Christmas Eve (and stuffed my face...mmmdeviledeggs!), then got in time with my mom's side of the family on Christmas Day. On Dec. 17th, my stepaunt Tracy gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Adam, so we had a very new addition to the family present for the festivities. I already like him - he's one of the few babies who doesn't scream the entire time I hold him! I also got to see and catch up with Sari and Andrew, and Sandi came down and visited for a couple days. My parents treated us to an amazing dinner at a newish restaurant called Blue, and then dropped us off at The Penguin with cab fare home. They rock!
The only sucky things were that I wasn't with Nick, and seeing how my grandfather's Alzheimer's has progressed in the 5 months since I last saw him. But overall, everyone was mostly in good health and happy, and we were all together - and that's what really counts.
When I got home, I got my other Christmas present from Nick: he made me a beautiful painting to go over my faux mantel in my apartment. It looks great! I'll have to take a picture and post it sometime. We'd considered going out on New Year's Eve, but seeing as we were kinda broke and neither of us wanted to be the DD and we didn't want to pay for cabfare to Echo Park from my place, we instead decided to go get takeout food, a bottle of champagne and some beer and stay in. Playing drinking games to my Simpsons S3 DVD wasn't such a bad way to ring in 2004!
Now I'm back at work and I'm BORED. For the first time since I started working here, I only have one campaign and it is so hard to make it through the day. I've got to do a big mailing tomorrow, and then I'm going to get a head start on some stuff that needs to get done before Jamaica, and Jeff wants me to help him on a project....other than that, I'm spending lots of time reading news sites and looking for entertainment. A few months from now when my workload is back to normal and I'm bitching about it? Someone please remind me to go back and read this post. Ha.
Going to see Jude tonight, dinner with Andrea tomorrow (first time I've seen here since the Sondre Lerche show debacle), watching the Panthers and hopefully the UNC game on Saturday...and other than that, I have no plans to do much of anything besides look forward to leaving for Jamaica on the 17th!
I had a really good time at home over the holidays. Mom and I did quite a few "movie afternoons" (and even ran into Jenn and her mom at one!), Jay took me to a Panthers game, I did the usual all-day visit with some of my dad's side of the family at Mamaw's house on Christmas Eve (and stuffed my face...mmmdeviledeggs!), then got in time with my mom's side of the family on Christmas Day. On Dec. 17th, my stepaunt Tracy gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Adam, so we had a very new addition to the family present for the festivities. I already like him - he's one of the few babies who doesn't scream the entire time I hold him! I also got to see and catch up with Sari and Andrew, and Sandi came down and visited for a couple days. My parents treated us to an amazing dinner at a newish restaurant called Blue, and then dropped us off at The Penguin with cab fare home. They rock!
The only sucky things were that I wasn't with Nick, and seeing how my grandfather's Alzheimer's has progressed in the 5 months since I last saw him. But overall, everyone was mostly in good health and happy, and we were all together - and that's what really counts.
When I got home, I got my other Christmas present from Nick: he made me a beautiful painting to go over my faux mantel in my apartment. It looks great! I'll have to take a picture and post it sometime. We'd considered going out on New Year's Eve, but seeing as we were kinda broke and neither of us wanted to be the DD and we didn't want to pay for cabfare to Echo Park from my place, we instead decided to go get takeout food, a bottle of champagne and some beer and stay in. Playing drinking games to my Simpsons S3 DVD wasn't such a bad way to ring in 2004!
Now I'm back at work and I'm BORED. For the first time since I started working here, I only have one campaign and it is so hard to make it through the day. I've got to do a big mailing tomorrow, and then I'm going to get a head start on some stuff that needs to get done before Jamaica, and Jeff wants me to help him on a project....other than that, I'm spending lots of time reading news sites and looking for entertainment. A few months from now when my workload is back to normal and I'm bitching about it? Someone please remind me to go back and read this post. Ha.
Going to see Jude tonight, dinner with Andrea tomorrow (first time I've seen here since the Sondre Lerche show debacle), watching the Panthers and hopefully the UNC game on Saturday...and other than that, I have no plans to do much of anything besides look forward to leaving for Jamaica on the 17th!