always remember...

wow, i've been busy lately. with the semester coming to an end, school and work have been extremely hectic, not to mention all the things i'm having to do outside of work and school. crazy crazy craziness. but it's all good.

as far as christmas shopping goes, i think i'm pretty much done. we have a couple of random things to go get for rob's nephews and such, but other than that i'm personally done. now i've just got the daunting task ahead of me of wrapping everything! actually, it's more like getting rob to wrap everything...he does such a nice job! and then i'll decorate the packages and i'm making name tags/cards for them because that's just me and my crafty self. the christmas friend get-together got postponed til the 17th, which actually works out well since jamie will be able to come and i don't have to rush on cleaning, unpacking and finishing the painting i'm giving to kelley. speaking of which, i actually found all my paints today and set up my art table and easel and started working on her painting again. w00t. i'm productive! :)

so currently the menu for the get together is as follows:
chicken tenders
apple fritters
soft gingerbread cookies
pumpkin pie
small things like cheese and crackers
queso dip and chips
and then i figure if we want real food we can just order pizza or something.
and yes, i'm cooking all of that! i'm so excited, i love to cook and have people over!!! we just haven't done it in so long, so i'm going all out! so none of y'all better cancel on me dagnabit!!! :P

i'm wasting time currently while paint dries on kelley's painting so i can go put a wash on it and see whether or not i'm going to call it done. knowing me i probably won't, but we'll see! so in the meantime, hmm...what else is going on...uhm...yeah, not a lot. we have rob's company christmas party this friday, christmas with my family on saturday, and christmas with my friends on sunday...busy weekend! on top of that i have two finals this week and therapy on wednesday. and then next week starts wintermester which i have to pay for by wednesday. wow, december has just been a very busy and expensive month i'm coming to realize. however, i've been in such a good mood lately, that i can hardly complain about anything. i haven't felt real great physically, but emotionally and mentally i've felt fantastic! i've been very productive and high spirited, which is pretty out of the ordinary for me. it's like i go the opposite of the rest of the world. most everyone else i know gets all mopey and depressed around the holidays...holiday blues if you will, and i go the other way, where i'm usually fairly up and motivated. if nothing else it will make for an interesting session on wednesday. i've decided i'm just going to put together a photo album and take it with me to therapy and we'll go through that so she has a face to put with names or something.
anyway. enough jibber jabbering, i've gotta go do that wash on the painting so i'll catch y'all later!
much love everyone!

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