Lol I totally meant to post last night but I ended up hang out with my parents and playing Apples to Apples til almost 1:30 in the morning. We had a cell phone to Dr. Pepper cheers and then they texted everyone in the family happy new years.

I like to open the cards I get for the holiday on Christmas itself so it's like another present. So tigs, dine, wordsaremyfaith ( Read more... )

I'm kinda sad I missed the sign up for my annual lj secret santa gift exchange. sigh. Guess there's next year, right?

Anyway, there's the other holiday gift thing I can do.

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I don't know why but I've been procrastinating typing up this post ever since Katie left a few weeks ago. We ended up not doing the family X-mas gift exchange, mostly 'cause my brothers were tired of shopping. Because of they kept putting that off I kept putting of writing up my Christmas gifts for posterity (I'll need to jog my memory in years to ( Read more... )

LJ Santa, Thank You for the presents! I've already copied Curious George to my computer and I've got the nail polish on display (they're so pretty!). Also, Godiva chocolate, YUM! Thanks again ( Read more... )

I have finished my holiday baking! Yesterday I made sugar cookies with christmas cookie cutters and caramel chocolate squares. This evening I made chewy walnut squares and kahlua mudslide browniesWe had a couple guests over for the evening - Dave and Colleen, family friends, and Rebecca came over 'til she got called out to work. There was multiple ( Read more... )

I had dinner with my very good friend Tiffany on Tuesday. We went to Johnny Carino's and stuffed ourselves silly. They have the have the most wonderful snow crab ravioli, I love it. They also have some very lovely desserts, my favourite is the turtle cheesecake, but since Tiffany doesn't like caramel, we had ny style cheesecake covered in chocolate ( Read more... )

So Yesterday after I had breakfast I went out and helped Chris shovel the driveway and sidewalk and a bit of the street since we're not expecting the plow 'til tomorrow if at all. I was out there for a couple hours at least. Boy, was I sore afterwards. I'm hardly sore at all today but yesterday it hurt to bend over ( Read more... )

I told myself I wasn't allowed to open any of my christmas cards until I sent out my secret santa gift and my holiday-type cards. So yesterday I wrote and packaged everything and today I walked down to the new, very close, post office branch and mailed everything!

Thank you, dine. The boys are very pretty. And thank you, simply_fly_away, the card is lovely. I also ( Read more... )

Last call for holiday cards from me. I'm going out to pick out my cards tomorrow (Thursday at the latest) and I need to know how many to get. If you've moved any time between last Christmas and now I probably don't have you address any more. So go here and comment if you'd like a card from me this year.

Awesome!