Hubbyfink and I are in Virginia while my family is in Tennessee. We're watching them open gifts and chatting with them via Skype. It's almost like being there with the added bonus of not smelling the collard greens simmering on the stove. ;)

Merry Christmas!

I want to bake and decorate Christmas cookies, but I'm too tired from staying up late playing a video game. Maybe I can sneak in a quick nap while Hubbyfink is searching for Ice Melt. Margie is trying to lay a sleepy spell on me by blinking slowly and deeply as she soaks up a sunbeam in the entryway ( Read more... )

Hubbyfink's gifts are wrapped and have been placed under the tabletop tree with care. I've ordered our Honeybaked Ham and will pick it up Wednesday (mmmm... ham). I'm going to pick up ingredients for Christmas dinner side dishes tonight ( Read more... )

The Beasley-Cozad-Dangerfield-Danosky-Harris-Johnson Christmas eve celebration included a cameo by zipmeister, who had pretty much recovered from his mysterious pain, which meant that we had eleven adults around the dining table with Zippy and Aunt Trish sharing a table a deux (Aunt Jan lost the coin toss) in the archway between the dining and formal living ( Read more... )

We made to Germantown safely. Left Sterling at 7am ET Saturday and arrived at Mom's front door about 7:15pm CT Saturday. Hubbyfink was an absolute saint and drove most of the way while I dozed feverishly through nearly all of Virginia and a small portion of Tennessee. Ate at the Kingsport Sonic ( Read more... )

I'm 900 miles away from all of them and I still wind up being the go-between arranging family get-togethers for my siblings and father. Sheesh. At least we've finally got a date for the Christmas visit.

Gifts are wrapped and ready for transport to Memphis this weekend. Whoo hoo! Unfortunately, I'm now hobbling around like a 90-year-old woman because my back hurts so bad from wrapping gifts on the floor for two hours. Oof.

But it's a good busy. I put in requests for shipping documents back in October and the air waybills are finally coming back from the export department. I have stacks of little boxes piled about my cube waiting for the shipping department to retrieve them and send them on their merry way to various Asian and Australian destinations. I've answered ( Read more... )

A quiet turkeyless Thanksgiving day with the Hubbyfink was followed by a busy Black Friday where I did my part to shore up the US economy. Thanks to an award from work, I was able to get Hubbyfink an Xbox360 as an early Christmas gift and scored an 8Gig Nano for myself.

psalite, pirategirleee, and I visited Colonial Williamsburg on Saturday, with an obligatory stop ( Read more... )

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
6:24pm EST

First Christmas commercial of the season viewed on HGTV. (It was for Hallmark's motion-activated alarm bags.)