12/14/08 4:47 pm Blah Sunday. I feel SOOOOO unmotivated. Can I just say that 2008 sucked?
12/14/08 Friday night was the [Holiday Party], at Union Station, in the Thunder Grille. It was fun. The House Ale was fantastic. I had six glasses. Wine glasses. Probably the equivalent of three beers. Had an interesting conversation with Mrs. Boss.
12/14/08 She finally came to find me by the bar and said, "Hi! The woman who spends more time with my husband than I do! Sorry about that." Ha! Then she tells me the nephew wedding they went to in June fell apart. Four months into it she up and left him.
12/14/08 Then their daughter, who got married in August, is on the verge of leaving her husband, due to clash of personalities which everyone saw beforehand but them. Wow. Soap operas. So, we rode Metro home late, like 9:00 pm.
12/14/08 Saturday I got paid - YAY! Monday is actually payday. We went out shopping. First to Corridor. I made a list on my computer at work, and had a sparkling wine picked out for the Girls and a Sake for my Boss. But I ended up getting different stuff.
12/14/08 Near the door, I spotted this cute White Zin with reindeer names - don't even remember which ones. I was going to get one to try first, and this guy wheeled his cart past us and said he got a case because his kids love it. (His adult kids!) [It is: Prancer & Vixen White Zinfandel by Eight Tiny Reindeer Winery in California.]
12/14/08 So I grabbed three more. We opened it last night - it IS good. And a store employee saw us looking at Sake and recommended one, so I got it. Then we went to Target for a ton of stuff. Then home to dump the stuff. Then to Michael's. Steve went to Best Buy. Then Starbucks (of course).
12/14/08 Then Harris Teeter for grocery shopping. Last night I wrapped up Jami's stuff, in the square ramekins I got at work, forgotten by a caterer. I'm four gifts short! So I need four more little thingys. I found something for Mom and Bob at Michael's.
12/14/08 Decorative Snowman on a sled. And I opened my paper from Daniel Smith and they sent the wrong thing! Aargh! It's soft. It's NOT Stonehenge! I emailed them today. Today I also scanned and posted the end of November.
12/14/08 I'm so behind on blogging, but it's hard to get motivated when nobody is reading it. And I have no artistic motivation to speak of. I'm getting nowhere. Nowhere. Utter failure.
12/15/08 8:59 pm I forgot to write about my Anaheim Pepper chemical burn yesterday to my hands. I cut up two for the pork roast and chili. I dug out the seeds and membranes with my hands. Later, I sneezed. I put my hands over my mouth.
12/15/08 Then happened to lick my lips. A few seconds later: AAAAHH! PAIN! TINGLING! Steve had to pour me a glass of milk! Later, after doing some dishes - the hot water - my hands were ON FIRE.
12/15/08 They were tingly off and on for most of the day! Last time I do that. Today - my bangs were CRAZY.
12/16/08 9:20 pm Messy. I told Steve I felt like my life was just slipping away, and he said, "What did you just say?!"
12/17/08 8:14 pm I forgot to put out butter last night for chocolate chip cookie dough, but this morning I put it in the oven. Before we left, I mixed up the dough. It's Martha Stewart's recipe, but I'm aging it 36 hours per the NY Times.
12/17/08 This evening I mixed up dough for Martha's Cowboy Cookies (they have oats, nuts, coconut and chocolate in them). I broke up two Lindt milk chocolate bars for those. I will bake tomorrow night. They're for gifts. But I sampled the dough. Yum.
12/17/08 Now I'm kind of liking my poufy bangs.
12/18/08 12:37 pm At lunch. I better make a note and a drg before I'm scrambling out of bed for paper. Tonight I have to bake cookies. And take the bus home, because Steve woke up sick, with a scratchy squeaky voice.
12/18/08 I also have to run out to Corridor for some mini liquor bottles for Jami's gift. I am still two items short to fill all the ramekins. And I need to find something for Steve's birthday. He said awhile back he wanted whisky for sipping.
12/18/08
12/18/08 I trimmed my bangs this morning, and the rest of my hair. But I have to trim again - my "tail" right in the middle in the back. It's nice and tapered, but too long. Not bad for pulling forward to cut.
12/19/08 7:58 pm It's Steve's BIRTHDAY today! But he stayed home. I took the car. He still needed a day of rest. I let him open the whisky this morning before I left. After I got home, I saw that he'd gotten into the Maker's Mark. He liked it.
12/19/08 I gave out all my presents at work, and got all mine. Everyone liked their wine & cookies, and Boss Man liked his Sake. He gave me a $100.00 Barnes & Noble gift card. He said since it was my last day, he had to go out shopping last night.
12/19/08 Then I opened Darla's gift - the Peanuts Holiday DVD set! She said, "You know we just ask Steve what to get you." Michelle made us all Bailey's - homemade Bailey's. Can't wait to try it. Sharon came in around lunchtime - she's still sick.
12/19/08 She got me a big cat calendar, which I put up at my desk. And this plastic figure of Charlie Brown, with the "Pathetic Tree," complete with Linus' blanket and a red ornament. And a Peanuts card that plays Peanuts music when you open it.
12/19/08 And a $50.00 Lands End gift card, because she knows I hate my work clothes. She went home when she took me to the Metro station. I stopped at Safeway on the way home for frozen lasagna. Stouffer's Italiano - yum.
12/19/08 Strange drg. I'm tired. Really tired.
12/20/08 8:39 pm Jason called last night! I heard Steve pick up the phone, but I was ZONKED OUT. I mean ZONKED. I don't feel so good today. We did lots of shopping today. I'm wiped.
