tis the season

tis the season and yet i am not in the mood. how strange. i'm usually a very holiday-spirit girl. this year, i've been very melancholy. i feel like a robot going through the motions i've been programmed for. i whipped out the christmas music today to try and jump start my xmas go-go. i've started up a list of christmas. hopefully i can get most of the things bought by this weekend because i have to work for weekend days to take time off to go home.

i made christmas cards myself this year. i wish i had a better printer and a nice cutting board but oh well. i didn't have too much time. they came out okay, not quite what i had planned...etc.. i'll post the card in a week after everyone i'm sending it too gets one.

i dropped by Eckerds this afternoon and bought a few christmas decorations that were on sale. I also bought some holiday candy to put out. I pulled out the christmas star lights from last year and hung them on the wall. I also indulged myself and bought a Martha Stewart Holiday magazine issue. There's a great section this month on how to create woodland-character sweets. Snow flake shaped marshmallows, pine cone shaped cakes, log shaped cakes, and sugar twigs. I might try to recreate these confectionery delights this weekend. We'll see.

j and i went to this offices' christmas party this past Friday. it was at this place called the iron cactus. a margarita bar and grill type place with a "casino" where you play for tickets to enter a lottery for prizes. we spent the whole night play at the crap table. it was the first time i had ever played. it's a real social game so it can be pretty fun. we ended up breaking even at the end of the night but didn't win any prizes aside from the door prize everyone got, a fancy company water container.

this weekend, i sent most of my time playing mom to qtpi. i'm trying to train her to go running in the morning. i even got her to run a bit with a harness and leash on. she's currently learning the sit command. the words she hears a lot now are "outside", "potty", "good girl", "paw check", "no!", "sit", and "kennel".. hopefully she'll move onto "stay", "lay down", "fetch", and "pay bills"... hehehe. j/k on the last one. i wish.

okie doke, the christmas cards are done printing and are in their envelopes. i just need to fill them out which is the most time consuming part because i try to write mini-letters in them. so i'm going to do the hard part tomorrow when i'm more awake. need to get some sleep, have a meeting with my boss in the morning.