I had grand intentions of getting back to work today, getting 2 lectures written and being all productive.  I had a hard time finding any inducement to leave the house given that I had a lovely cup of tea and a puppy in my lap this morning.  So I got started late.  I knocked out the tail end of the anxiety disorders lecture that I left off with the ( Read more... )

So tonight was the insane extended family Christmas with the aunt that no one likes.  She's just bitchy.  We had to make a special trip back into town to get her flour for gravy because my MIL was out of flour (correction, she had 1/2 a cup of flour left and the aunt apparently wanted to make like a gallon of gravy).  The aunt also informed me that ( Read more... )

Christmas Eve was a rough day.  I spent hours all morning baking and putting things together for most of my gifts.  Got the house cleaned up, myself, and the kitchen.  Sat down for all of 10 minutes and happened to get up to start packing some stuff and find that ants got into everything.  I burst into tears and bawled all the way to Walmart.  Got ( Read more... )

I need to step away from the kitchen.  Really, I do.  And I need to stop trying to make cookies.  My adorable peanut butter reindeer were a disaster.  I mean, they taste good, but they didn't turn out anything like the picture and the antlers and nose and eyes won't stay on and they're too try and they just fall apart.  No way am I giving those to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had the appetite of a 6 year old.  Hot dog, chicken nugget value meal at McDonald's, grilled cheese for dinner, and cookies cookies cookies.  I also had the stomach ache to go along with it when I went to bed last night.  So today I'm making up a batch of zucchini chowder, as I just can't bring myself to eat salad this time of year.  I ( Read more... )

Friday:

• Wipe down counters
• Mop the floors (No point until the rain stops)
• Organize remaining baking supplies
• Get down other tree skirt from the attic

Saturday

• Pick up Angel Food order

Yeah, so that office Christmas party on Friday?  It's really today.  My boss came in my office a half hour ago all dressed up.  So I just went home and frantically threw together the taco soup in a crock pot (thank God I picked something easy and not baked goods.  While the meat was browning, I got the dirty Santa gift wrapped, so now everything is ( Read more... )

Whee!  We're watching A Charlie Brown Christmas.  It's one of my all time favorites.  A must watch.  DH can take it or leave it, but he's watching it with me anyway.  I've got hot chocolate with two big fat marshmallows in a s'mores snowman mug (officially purchased for hot chocolate).  DH has coffee with egg nog creamer.  We're being good and not ( Read more... )

Planned obsolescence pisses me off.  During our grandparents and even our parents generations, stuff was made to last.  You bought it, and you could rely on it lasting a good long while.  We've had so much stuff break or die this year.  The dishwasher in April.  The TV in January (or was that last year?).  The vacuum while I was out of town (it is ( Read more... )

Okay CLEARLY I should leave home more often.  So yesterday morning, before I left for Texas, I put together some taco soup in the crock pot so DH will have something to eat.  He remembered to put it away last night before bed, actually did the dishes (with me not around to ask him to), and this morning, the man who begs me to make his lunch every ( Read more... )