Christmas Eve

Since it's Christmas Eve today we only worked half a day. We have tomorrow off and i requested Friday off as well s0 i'm gonna get some well deserved time off.

We weren't able to make it to the valley this christmas but maybe next weekend. our docket this christmas is full because we have tickets to go see CATS on saturday and we have maggie scheduled for the vet that day too.

her comp exam was due in november and since they closed the vet in the petsmart around here we have to take her to one that's a little further away so we had to put it for a weekend. one of the booster shots that she needs triggered an allergic reaction the first time so had it so now everytime she needs it we have to leave her for the day so they can keep her under observation. we pick her up in the afternoon.

we wanted to go see the transyberian orchestra next weekend but we waited too long to decide and there weren't any good tickets left so, there.....nickelback is not until april but cheech and chong are gonna be at the majestic in march. tickets go on sale jan 9 so i think we're going to that one.

i have the rest of the day until 5 oclock to myself so i'm listening to handel's messiah. i only have the cd and not the packaging so i couldn't remember which cd went first since the cds aren't numbered so i just popped in any and i lucked out. man, that brings back memories of my years in choir when all the city high schools would get together to perform that piece during christmas at that big church downtown, that was cool. i'm surprised some of the songs are familar after all these years. Right now it's "for unto us a child is born". cool.

talked to mary a little while ago, she called me while making some last minute shopping. they're getting together at her place tonight. too bad we can't be there. yeah, right, i'm glad we couldn't be there because otherwise we'd have to come back tomorrow because joel has to work friday and i just hate traveling on christmas day like we did last year. that totally sucked. we'll go another time and drop off the presents.

i have my assignment due on jan 4 and i really need to get started, time's ticking away. maybe this weekend. yeah right.

Countdown to Christmas

It's almost the end of the year already but better yet, only 18 days til christmas. i did some shopping today and i only have a handful of presents left to buy. not bad since before today i hadn't bought anything. usually i wait until the last minute to do my shopping.

thanksgiving went okay, it was a busy day. started cooking early in the day because company showed up around 1:00. the turkey was pretty good, we made two and had enough to feed a crowd and feed us for the rest of the weekend and halfway through the next.Company hung around for the rest of the day and left around five to go register and get ready for the convention. mom and dad went with them but returned later on in the evening and they all had another go at the food.

Even Maggie got into the action. We let her chew on a turkey leg for a little bit.

They stuck around for the rest of the weekeend. Mom and dad stayed over on Thursday night and they spent the morning here Friday and left after 12. They thought they were gonna take the bus back but we surprised them by giving them the truck. Dad was so shocked but thankful, he couldn't believe that we just wanted to give it to him, no strings attached. Snapped a picture before they left.

That Saturday we brought up the tree. Yes, we have an artificial christmas tree. Who wants to be responsible for chopping down a new tree every year. How environmental of us, huh? Anyways, today i finished decorating it and the place. Put up some extra lights that don't show in this picture but i was so excited that i finally finished decorating the tree that i took a picture before i was done but here it is.

Since it's been cold lately, i brought out Maggie's sweater. I had to cut off the sleeves because in the past she couldn't move very well and now she's pretty comfortable in it, although she's gotten bigger since i first bought it and it's pretty snug on her, so i don't keep it on her for too long, just enough to say, ah, how cute and snap a picture.

OMG, went to get tickets for the nickelback concert in april and couldn't get very good seats. i wanted them in the charter section but ended up in the plaza level section 105. I guess that's still good because it's by the side of the stage and at least it's not in the nosebleed section.

have to go get ready for the week. Got my assignment back on Saturday and i have until january 4th to turn it in. I'll get to it on new years day.