I got socks for a present....

....and I'm really OK with that. Smart wool socks are amazing and all the rage out here. If you don't own a pair you're the antithesis of cool. Well no...you'd probably be cool, or at least your toes would be seeing as these socks keep you toasty.Anyway...I was hoping to post something way cooler about my weekend, like a sledding party, a hike, some yoga and a cookie exchange but all that had to be canceled. Why? Because of the elves currently squeezing my air sacs and the giant vice being twisted around my noggin. Cursed sinuses. Thankfully I've been eating lots of oranges, drinking an insane amount of tea and sleeping like a napping bear.


Before this curse took over my realm I did have a nice afternoon with the girls on Friday. I promised them that we would have a fun morning/afternoon on their first day of Christmas vacation.


We started off the morning by making a big batch of waffles with strawberries and blueberries baked inside. The girls were tickled because I let them sit on the floor and watch a movie while they enjoyed their breakfast. As I finished up the endless batches of waffles, I heard my mom's voice in my head ...something along the lines of..."I hate making waffles because of all the clean up." I guess she was right. I spent most of "The Year With Out a Santa Clause" using a knife and loads of paper towels to scrape out all the bits of drippings.

Next we were on to assembling the gingerbread house, that we bought 2 weeks ago. All the girls could talk about was eating the darn thing. It assembled relatively easily and my fears of a wobbly creation dissipated. While the walls were drying out, the girls colored Christmas pictures, made Grinch masks and ornaments for our tiny Christmas tree. We raced around obstacles courses, listened to some tunes, ate lunch while watching Rudolph and chased each other with tickly fingers.

Their Dad had a work Christmas function that we attended later that evening. Well we had to go relatively early due to the fact that we had no hot water in the house. I discovered this the morning before with a head full of suds when all of sudden the term ice cold came to fruition. So here I am at this lady's house whom I've only met a handful of times and I'm showering in her 1980's era basement shower .


Thankfully this party was way more vegan accommodating as several of the doctors/staff are fellow veg heads. There was the usual, hey you are new, tell me about you. Then there was the encounter with the engineer who had very little idea about personal bubbles and I was cornered against some chairs and a water cooler, having just eaten broccoli and bean slaw... I also without fail made myself look like a goon by asking odd questions at the wrong moments to the wrong people.


Although I have to say in comparison to the work function that I attended last year this was a world of difference. Here we were actually allowed to wish each other a Merry Christmas. There were decorations of Santa Clauses and red and green garland. There were even games and merriment. If you haven't inferred my work party last year was a total suck fest of dreariness filled with very little holiday cheer.


So here I am writing this post hoping to get some creative inspiration for my personal statement for my PSU application.


I can hardly believe Christmas is at the end of this week. Wow time flies....

(P.S.-this was suppose to go out yesterday but we lost the power...it was truly camping then!)