i stayed up too late cross stitching. i also think it's bad that my feet are numb from being cold.

cookies 'n 'at

i made peanut butter fudge today because it's quick. i'm so behind on the cookies. i dont think i'm actually going to get them in. then this morning i get an im saying that dave's dad is having a birthday party on december 23 and can we be in town for that.

i think i'll make pizzelles since they are also easy and maybe call it quits unless i have time for sure. i'm not making candies. this year my cookie supply isn't very good.

but i'm not having a Christmas party. i'm sad. i didn't have time to plan one. but at least then i don't need as many cookies.

i should look in the freezer. i think i have 4 containers of cookies (some are small). to jog my memory of what i actually made. i think no-bakes, chocolate chip, and outmeal raison. then i have a small container of peanut butter balls/buckeyes that i never took out of the freezer when i had the wedding. i know i should make peanut butter cookies but i don't have the hershey kisses here so maybe i'll do regular ones or just forget about them this year.

finally

we finally went grocery shopping. we spent 120. i dont think we bought much meal food though. we also spent over 100 today at sam's club.

i'm tired. my head hurts. my throat hurts. i only sneeze sometimes. i'm going to sleep. i slept 12 hours last night.

talking on the phone consumes too much of my time.

to do list for today

how many of these things will i get done?
1. laundry. 1 load is in the wash. i'll have at least 3 loads to do it all. the 1 hamper weighed 32 lbs
2. clean up
3. set up to take the Christmas picture then take it (have to move some ornaments to the other garland since that is the one we're taking the pictures by.)
4. make cookies
5. go grocery shopping
6. go to target
7. make more Christmas cards
8. write out Christmas cards
9 address envelopes (last year i used store bought Christmas cards and I think it took a good 4 hours. I've already spent 4 hours making cards and i have 10 made. i sent 39 cards last year and this year i have more than I want to send. maybe i'll find my store bought cards and use those but i have no idea where they are)
10.carry all my stamping stuff upstairs and put it back on the shelves.


already went to the gym

we went to grove city today. it was exhausting. it was really busy. it took way too long to get around to all the stores.

it's too cold in here.

i have a headache and i keep getting foot cramps. i'm supposed to be drinking lots of fluids. i drank 8 oz total today.

i donated blood today.

i'm skipping the gym today.

i am so tired. i think i'm going to attempt to go to sleep now. i've been so tired all week.

some friends came over tonight ot make cards. it was fun times.

now i've been to the gym 5 days in a row.

so i wanted to be mean in an e-mail but sound like i'm not being mean and pb said most people just do that and it's not a big accomplishment. i think i failed though.

i went ot the gym 3 days in a row.

may i'll look good for Christmas instead of looking gutty like I did at Thanksgiving. I have no self control with frozen no-bake cookies.

here it is

the skirt that I wore tonight:

it took a lot of figuring for what shirt to wear. i wanted to wear a button down shirt but if it was untucked then it covered the waist band and if it was tucked in then my waist was entire too high (even though that's where my waist is. i'm too short waisted for it to look good)

my clothes and the party

we had our work christmas party. we got free beer. but no other booze. we do an elephant gift exchange .i ended up with a clock. i brought my tic tac toe drinking game. people liked that. it kept getting stolen. i knew it would go over well with the drunkards. i didn't' expect people to actually get drunk. then we ended up with 2 more gifts because one guy didn't want 13 bobble heads. and craig was nice and gave us the electric screwdriver that he got. and pb also ended up with 3 boxes of chocolate. the chocolates were our gift from sue this year.

i wanted to wear something i can't or don't wear to work and it was buisness casual attire. i wore a short skirt. i'll post a pic later. well i sure looked pretty in my nice outfit. but a short-ish skirt and drunkards don't go well together. i got embarrassed. one guy at the group christmas party kept making remarks about my skirt and how i should be vana white (when we were doing the gift exchange) and even commented on it again later. i can't even believe the drunkards. girls complimented me on my nice outfit. i actually only wore a skirt because haley said she was and i couldnt be outdone by her because jason has pics of her up at work and people think she is all hot. well i won. she did not look good.

weekly update since i'm a posting slacker

Tuesday I went to Joe Mama's in Oakland to meet my mentee from CMU.
Wednesday I went to dinner for gram's birthday. it took an hour to get to mckeesport because of a stupid car accident. then we went to my aunt's and had cake. my aunt told my uncle to buy a red cake. she meant red devil's food. he got yellow cake with red icing. it was a funny looking cake. then i headed home so stacey could come over to stamp. she was supposed to come at 6:30. but i had to change because of the impromptu birthday dinner.
Thursday we went to Johnny Carino's and went to Target after. We bought some Christmas decorations and I got a nice new coat.
Today I napped on the office floor while Dave was reading his e-mails before we would watch TV. then we watched TV and ate, and i've watched more TV. then we went to the deauville park gym. and i've been watching taped TV through my computer ever since.

how about that steeler game? i saw maybe 5 min of it. 1 min here. it was boring. turned it off. then watched 45 min of a show and then turned on the game. boring again. then another show. then show is over and i watch teh rest of the game.

how about that game causing me to miss dancing with the stars.

wedding pictures

i did some fancy photo editing to 14 pictures in 3 hours. and all of the editing wasn't fancy. some of it was only changing color to black and white. i still didn't figure out how to do what i wanted to do. i did some weird things that i don't think will turn out right when printed. we will see. this is a step in the right direction to making a wedding album.

i get up from the chair after eating a snack
pb: goosey your pants are unbuttoned
me: well i had to so i could eat more.

i hate when there are too many choices. it just makes it too hard to decide.

we at a big meal at 1 but my big meal isn't as big as everyone elses. so i ate again at 5. then i took a 2 hour nap.

mike gained 7.5 lbs from lunch, timmy gained 5.5. and dave y gained 3. i didn't do a premeal weight at home so i couldn't tell for sure what the meal weight gain was.