Taking Care of Business

So, is anyone else as tired of seeing that whiny post down there as I am?  I wanted to post something this weekend to make it be gone, but before I knew what had hit me, it was Sunday night and I was falling asleep on the couch with a pounding headache.  But I'm here now!  And while I'm still feeling mucho exhaustion, I'm feeling much less Grinch-like.

Friday evening I left work a little early so we could go to Colby's work Christmas party.  I was a little Grinchy about that, because seriously, who wants to pay twenty five bucks for a crappy dinner and THEN find out that there's a cash bar?  Where's the Merry Christmas in that?  But there was a huge dessert spread, so I ate my weight in sugar cookies, chocolate candies, and cakes.

I slept like a log that night and didn't open my eyes until 11 o'clock on Saturday.  It was absolutely lovely.  I allowed myself a few hours of vegging out on the couch, and then we got busy cleaning out our kitchen cabinet hand-me-downs and replacing the contents with all of our shiny new wedding presents.

We just unloaded half a garage-full of furniture, clothes, and other random "stuff" to Salvation Army, and it looks like before the end of the year we'll have another quarter of the garage filled and ready to go.  I also designed our Christmas card on Saturday night and finalized our Christmas card list--I got it down under a hundred addresses, but just barely.

Sunday just about killed me again as we braved the shopping centers during the final days of the Christmas rush, but we got tons of fun new pressies for ourselves using gift cards and exchanging duplicate registry items and also got our Christmas shopping almost completely finished.  Colby just has to pick up a few gift cards tonight, and then the next few days will be devoted to wrapping and boxing up presents to ship out and getting the Christmas cards addressed and mailed out.

So, all in all, I feel much more ahead of the game this week than I did on Thursday, and now there are only four more wake-ups standing between me and an 11 day break from work.  Those four days just can't pass quickly enough!!

Comments

[Becky]

I think that ranks up there with the worst Xmas party ever... at least I've never had to actually pay for my own food/drinks.

[The Incubator]

Cute Stuff -- so does that mean you don't want all that stuff you have up in the attic and all the other stuff carefully packed away in the closets here in the deep South:) When you guys are done up there, come clean out your stuff down here!

[Girl, Dislocated]

So glad to hear from you again! And I'm even more glad that this week is looking better!!!

P.S. I love love LOVE your new profile picture! Of course you look gorgeous, and the setting, the angle, and your pose make the picture even more awesome.

[Lisa]

Wow, that party sucked. You had every right to be Grinchy. Those are fabulous wedding presents. I still regret not registering. ;)

[Caro]

The person that bought you those dishes is awesome! Which would, ironically, make you awesome, because you technically bought them, but what I meant to say was the person who gave you the money to buy them is awesome :)

Haha, glad you are feeling better! I still can't over your 11 day break at work - sounds like a pretty awesome job! I'm stuck having to work on Christmas Eve *and* NYE, eww!

[La]

You are one busy lady! But, um, I know the excitement of wedding gifts, and those photos certainly are fantastic!

[Michelle & the City]

i am LOVING those plates. and the new glasses came alcohol included right? ;)

[sophie]

Glad you are feeling better. Making some progress can be the world of difference.