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winter wonderland

Oh goodness. It's Dec. 21. How did that happen? And I'm congested (either getting over my cold, or gearing up for Cold 2004, Phase 2) and thus, just slightly dizzy.

Slightly dizzy is not a good thing although I suppose it's better than Really and Truly Dizzy or Very Dizzy.

Speaking of dizzy, what a whirlwind week it's been.

The last week or so, in bullet points:

• Non-stop baking


• And by non-stop, I mean NON-STOP


• Christmas the First with GB's Dad, step-mom and Grandmother


• Party planning


• crazy-hectic work


• getting crazy sick and staying home


• staying home while crazy sick and STILL having to use that night to do last-minute shopping for Christmas the First


• visits with friends


• enjoying the colder than usual weather


• GB's band's holiday show


• making cupcakes (based on the Magno1ia Bakery recipe)


• pink frosting!!!


• endless holiday and party shopping


• Oh my god, how much money have I spent?????


• don't ask


• realizing we'd lost the Christmas cards we bought last year


• rush-ordering new cards online because we're too busy to go out together to pick out new ones


• endless party prep and the best husband in the world who cleaned the entire house for me as I fretted over food and drink and music and so forth


• party! (of the post-graduation, pre-birthday variety)


• cranberry vodka punch


• not all the party guests realizing that the punch was spiked


• party going by in a four-hour blur...but fun, I think


• post-party clean-up and a sparkling clean house


• going to bed with a sore, aching body - including very pained feet - the result of moving non-stop for at least 48 hours (give or take a total of 12 hours of sleep between Friday a.m. and Sunday p.m. which is SOOO not enough for me.)


• more, more and MORE

Last night was the most peaceful night in ages (except for that part where we had to storm the FedEx building at 6:50pm to pick up a package that they screwed up on delivering and that we needed TODAY in order to get it to Texas on time)....we did holiday cards and watched Tivo-ed episodes of Desparate Housew1ves and the Dai1y Show and ate leftover cupcakes and were generally just in a good mood .... tonight is more holiday shopping, Wednesday GB has practice for the Xmas eve show (the side project he's in plays nearly every Xmas eve at a special Friends Holiday Show...always fun if not a little stressful because it means we have to cut out of my family's Xmas shindig early)...Thursday is the birthday and I suspect GB has something beyond the usual dinner-and-a-movie up his sleeve as he mysteriously called me at work last week to make sure we "had that night open"...

Friday is Christmas, Part the Two and Saturday is Christmas Part the Three AND Christmas Part the Four....

and Sunday?

I don't know if I'll even get out of bed on Sunday but if I do, the pajamas are staying on and the farthest I'll travel is to the front porch for the paper and then the couch for coffee, reading and bad TV....such bliss...I can't wait.

1:23 pm - 12.21.04

sounds: Rufas Wa1nwright
words: little time for words right now
i am: tired, slightly dizzy but otherwise OK

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