Had a great time with family in Richmond yesterday, but was a lot of driving back and forth ( Read more... )

It's been a day of alternating between chores and rest. We did get the Christmas Tree put up, and the main floor of the house continues to trend toward a Christmas Eve Party Zone. T thinks we'll have 8-10 people show up, which is a smaller group than has been our average for Christmas Eve. I'm indifferent to how many people show up, and it's ( Read more... )

It's a lazy morning -- I slept past 8am because I stayed up late playing with my new iPad. Wow, iPads have come a long way in the past decade since I bought my last one ( Read more... )

So, we still don't have a federal budget past midnight tonight, but for today we do have one last day of budget authority, so I'll commute downtown for the last time this year ( Read more... )

The federal budget runs out tomorrow night, and literally nobody on Capitol Hill knows whether an extension will pass by then or what might be in it. This because yesterday President-Elect Trump threatened Republicans with primary challengers two years from now if they wouldn't drop their carefully-negotiated bipartisan budget bill in favor of ( Read more... )

T cooked dinner for us, yum! And there was enough for leftovers! I commuted and spent a full day at the office ( Read more... )

That wrapped up in an orderly way ( Read more... )

We have made enough progress that T is allowing himself a nap, WooHoo! The next item on my own To Do List is to clean the kitchen -- he's now finished baking his apple cranberry pies, and prepping his baked ziti dinner pans (these will be cooked later). A couple days ago he acquired some sort of dessert that is in a box in the fridge. I figure ( Read more... )

I don't know exactly when T specified the party would begin this afternoon/evening, and I'm not going to ask right now, because that would increase his stress level. His stress level is already high. It is the day of our annual Christmas Eve party, and we're not ready for it yet. I'm guessing 5pm. [UPDATE: 6pm ( Read more... )

I arrived at the neighborhood Kosher Grocer at 7:30am and they had a normal supply of fresh cranberries!

Probably because they're Jewish and not baking for Christmas! LOL

Yay!!