The Holiday Hangover

Mr. Price and I have been hanging out and doing next-to-nothing for the past several days and it has been fantastic! We've run errands, gone to the theater and coffee shops, gone on lunch and dinner dates and have been generally connected at the hip. We did *finally* see the movie The Hangover - and it was hilarious. The pinnacle of each day has come along with the mailman delivering the day's supply of Christmas Cards... for which I have a mini-ritual-of-sorts for opening and hanging on the card curtain.

I've been completely off the communication grid for almost two weeks now! No email, no facebook, no anything-online... very limited phone (i keep leaving it upstairs and not checking it for days at a time). It's been one part weird and one part reprieve. However, i'm back to it this afternoon and enjoying it - glad to be catching up again.

Despite the fact that there has been little to NO partying in the line-up for me... i have been feeling progressively more and more hungover. However, with fewer weeks until delivery than innings in a baseball game - I'll just have to suck it up and deal. I am thrilled to report that in this morning's check-up I got some brilliant meds that should help with the seemingly never ending hangover (from the party I didn't get to enjoy) symptoms that continue to pile up. Even more good news: I'll get a cute little baby for my efforts ;)

One of the things I have done with Mr. Price is that we have set up our computers battleship-style and I've started sorting through the year's pictures(which is no simple undertaking). My hard drive is full, so I need to clear out a few more gigs before I can download the current pics on my camera. But as soon as I do, I'll get some pics on here of the recent holiday happenings. MAYBE I'll even do it before the year comes to a close!? Actually, on second thought, don't drink to that just yet -- unless, of course, it's hot chocolate. In which case... bottoms up, buttercup! I'm on my 4th cup today. Cheers.

Friday before

I finally got around to (or rather, realized I hadn't yet) updated the blog playlist to the christmas list. Better late than never!

Today is the last day in the office and I will soon start some serious Xmas shopping to make up for lost time (too many nights until 8pm at the office lately). YAY for Christmas being in full force. =)

Cookiethon 2009

I literally just asked mr price if he thought I should make a pound
cake. He had to ask if I was serious.

I was...

Cards

So, i feel like I took a bit of shortcut this year with the Xmas cards. Instead of taking real creative photo or taking my own original design to a printer as I've done in the past, a co-worker had a coupon and offered it to me AND to pick mine up when she got hers (!) which, on top of the deadline that this then imposed... Meant I'd actually get then done and in the mail (which I was starting to doubt I would accomplish).

But they are done and in the mail today, which is a good feeling. Especially after last year's christmas card debacle.

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Snow, cont

In case you can't see the snow from the last picture, here is my view
right now- sitting T the dinning room table- looking out the back
door - watching snow fall and listening to Charlie Brown Christmas. To
complete the experience, I will now go make some chai. Happy Holidays
from Austin, TX

It's snowing!!

Yay! Yes, I recognize it is but a few tiny flurries, but even this
much is typically an every-other year occurance for us and so it is a
big deal.