Tiki My christmas party was not nearly that eventful....

Glad you had a good time:)

Drive by post on the way to work, it is cold here and well I am not sure I like it. Hope everyone is having a good day.

Amy

Hey all -

Tiki, sounds like you've had an eventful week!

I've been busy with work and injuring myself. :) Spent Friday driving long distances to meet with a CPA in CT, where my company is hoping to expand our solar business. Thier tax laws are aparrently more arcane than MA, if that's possible. Friday night was my MIL's annual "Chistmas Craft Night" - which I WISH was a ritual magic gathering, but I'm the only pagan in the family, so no dice. ;) Actually, it was fun - my mom and DH's whole female family get together to decorate aprons, make angels, eat crudites, string cranberries and popcorn, and make little mice out of Hershey kisses and Royal Icing. The gents go shopping and eat lots of meat. Toward the end of the night, I went out to my car to grab something in the dark and ended up spraining my ankle. Ow! I spent the weekend sitting with either ice or a heat pad on it. It's faded to an entertaining shade of purple and isn't hurting too much anymore, but it's put an end to my exercise goal for the week. I'm told I can't get back to working it for at least three or four more days, whether it is hurting or not. That means most of a week with no exercise, and that kind of thing chucks me off the wagon in a hurry if I'm not careful. On the up side, I declared Saturday a free day, limped to the Winter Solstice gathering of our dear friends, including one who I haven't seen in a year, as she lives in Australia. SO good, and we did absolutely filthy Mad Libs, laughed ourselves silly and ate... Chocolate Soup. I'm not kidding - it's so wonderful! But since then I've been trying to be good while I'm forced to sit on my posterior, with mixed results.

I'm revising my December goal to merely maintain my current weight (228ish) with a firm resolve to start the SBD on Dec 27th. DH and I usually go out for New Years, but I can insist that we go to the all-natural-organic-vegetarian-and-fish-fancy restaurant so that I am not too tempted to cheat. A nearby town has a lovely First Night celebration that lasts all day up to Midnight, so there would be lots of walking as well as the yummy supper. It's a plan.

Ciao, all! Take care!
Solarmama

Sounds like a fun night, well except for the ankle spraining :p Hope your ankle gets better soon!

Luv your new avatar! Strongbad rules!!!!! :lol:

Strong Bad is the MAN. I have him as wallpaper on my desktop saying "every time I look at myself I can't believe how awesome I am!" Makes me laugh almost every day.

Ciao!
Solarmama

Solarmama, what a riot you had! :hat: So sorry about your ankle, hon. :( In the meantime, you could do crunches! :lol:

Strongbad Story -
The Cute Boyfriend had been watching strongbad non-stop - I guess i wasn't much fun studying all the time so I'm talking a marathon of hours. Anyway, we go to bed, and he's spooning me when suddenly the bed is shaking, I'm shaking and I realize it's the cute boyfriend trying not to laugh. I turn around and say STOP, I'm trying to sleep! He says Sorry sorry and spoons me again - then he quitely says something hysterical like "no one is not on fire" or something equally ridiculous and busts out laughing. Finally, I had to kick him out of bed so that I could get some sleep! He wants to rename the dog, The Cheat. :)

A similar thing happened to me when I first caught up on all the old Strongbad emails, except I was the one spooning and laughing.

For those of you who may be wondering what the heck Strong Bad is, he's a cartoon character on homestarrunner.com - he's worth the bandwidth if you want to kill a few hours.

The avatar came from that website's icon set. I have one from a hidden set that I found in a SB email that is the same character, except he has a casio keyboard for a head. And that tells you what kind of freaks write Homestar. My kind!

Solarmama

Yep, DH and I are regular visitors to homestarrunner :D I laughed my butt off at the "Trogdor" episode it so reminded me of Ronnie James Dio's albums :rofl:

Good morning everyone! :coffee:

I can't believe we are thiscloseto Christmas! :yikes: I still have to pick up one or two gifts and do my groceries. Tonight is wrapping night :lol:

Quick fly-by as it's Gail morning and I'm trying to keep ahead of her. We have the darn tree finally up - it's artificial but still looks pretty good. I hope to get lights on it today and the decorations done early tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow morning I pack Christmas baskets for folks in the Village. We have to do more than 20 this year compared to the 13 needed last year. :( It's rough out there with lay offs and plant closures in the nearest bigger towns. I refuse to deliver baskets but will pack them - too hard on my soft and compassionate heart!

I still have wrapping and a few stocking stuffers to get but I am definitely in the home stretch and feeling very Christmassy. I'm even wearing my Rudolph earrings today.

Happy [Winter-Solstice-Holiday-of-Your-Choice] Ladies!

I'm planning a subdued Yule celebration tomorrow night, a birthday on Wednesday (Mine - 33!) and 'Hangin' With The Fabulous In-laws' on Friday Xmas eve. On Saturday we'll head to DH's grandparents for a Christmas Day celebration, and then drive four hours to the Cape for my family's Christmas Night get together. It's a marathon of driving and festivities! All of which is some of my favorite quality time of the year.

And if I get any work done this week or next at work, it will really be a miracle. Oy!

Ruth, bless your heart - there are many, myself ruefully included, who do not make time to help thier fellow humans at this time of year. You are wonderful, and don't you forget it!

I've been given the green light to exercise on my ankle as of Friday afternoon, yahoo! I did WATP 1-mile easy each day over the weekend, and I'll do that again today, but after that it's back to the two-mile or better, with alternating weight training two days per week. Woo hoo!

And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

Ciao!
Solarmama

My kids both love strongbad...and I'm getting hooked too!!!

Happy Holidays, and may the world be a more peaceful place this time next year....