Hi everyone: Sounds like everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and Maria the pictures are great. Thanks for sharing them. I agree with everybody--the red dress is great and you look wonderful in it. You looked very relaxed and happy. Best wishes to the new couple.
We had a very nice Christmas with many friends in our clubhouse, as no family came down this year. But...there was just one bad part of our holiday. Some idiot in our household (me) on Christmas eve morning, left the water running in the bathroom to answer the phone. Then talked with my DD and completely forgot.
Came in to find squish squish. Borrowed a shop vac and sucked up mucho water. Used fans and electric heaters to dry out as much as we could. Then first thing Thursday a.m. called the insurance, and the contractor. They sent in Service Master who put in a big humidifier and a blower/dryer, had to be on 3 days. They sprayed the carpet with fungicide to prevent mildew.
It was so noisy we had to sleep in the guest room. Also I couldn't spend any time in the bedroom as the blower stirred up so much dust etc. that I couln't breath well-hence no reading, or posting. Got the machinery out on Sat. and now I am trying to catch up on all sorts of things.
The other unpleasantness was that I roasted a 20lb turkey to take to the clubhouse. We had to carve it here, and trying to get it out of the roasting bag, onto the carving board, and save the broth, turned out to be a bigger job than we thought. Consequently, a lot of broth leaked all over the top of the stove and onto the floor. (The dog had a lovely time licking it up, before I could get it cleaned up
: ) So we cleaned up as much as we could, then went and had a great time, but came back later to do a real cleaning job and mop the floor.
Oh well. It really was a nice day, and I have been forgiven for my lapse of memory. The 27th was our anniversary, 27 years. But we have a lot of years of marriage experience between the two of us.
We went to the Olive Garden and had a lovely evening, remembering all the snow we had to deal with all those years ago.
I know what you mean, Slavika about feeling the arteries harden
Now back to the WW program. I love the Creme Brulee. Sounded wonderful.
Karen: Glad you are feeling better. Just don't go too fast. It will take a while to get all y our strength back, I'm sure.
Trudy: That was some way to get your tree down.
That happened to us once, as our cat wanted to climb it, but had no luck. We were so late getting all our decorations up this year, we probably won't take them down until after New Years.
Lily: I agree with you about the bracelets being too much trouble to keep moving the charm. I have become so used to counting in my head that I would never bother.They are rather pretty, just as a bracelet. And how about the new WW logo?
Peggy: Hope all were satisfied with your last minute creations. I'm sure they were wonderful. Did you get a lot of snow? Our family in Central New York were about snowed in on Christmas.
Glenda: Hope you had a happy Oklahoma Christmas with family and friends.
My BIL and SIL will be here for New Years eve and New Years day before they travel further south for the rest of the winter. I expect we will just have a quiet evening, with a little sparkling cider, and be in bed before the silver ball drops in Times Square.
There is a dance at the clubhouse, annnnd my DH is so happy that his brother is coming, so he doesn't have to go.
Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.
Ann