December Photo Diary - Day 10

The second Wednesday of the month means Red Hots. My friends and I get together once a month and this month means a Holiday party! Good friends, food and fun all in one place!

We're off tomorrow morning for a little mini vacation - not too far away so I won't be posting until next week. I'm having fun doing this, though. It's kind of interesting, to me. to see how I spend my days.

Nite, nite, y'all!
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Yay! I'm caught up! Today's pics on today's date!...

December's Photo Diary - Day 9

• Post Office - really cute mail box decoration!!
  
• Archiver's - love all the colors in a row
  
• Rainy Day - ALL DAY!!
  
• Cheap gas $1.38!!!
• Got my nails done
• Did some shopping - a cluster of gift bags at Target
  
• Got my hair cut (yuck - on the floor!)
• And a great tree at my salon...Friends in Middletown

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December Photo Diary - day 8

If it's Monday I must be bowling...these are really crappy lanes...10 lanes in all and they keep breaking down, but we keep going there. This is my first year on this league but the league has been together there for years! Nice group of ladies. I guess that's why they stay together, but why there???

Not much else to tell about - a pretty empty room in the house, filling out holiday cards, finishing up a couple of journal books for my sister and filling my gas tank for $1.44!!

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December Diary - Day 7

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...day of rest? I think not! Up early and out to work at the Holiday Boutique or to be more exact, I was working in the Gift shop at the Temple mostly running interference with the Sunday School kids coming to spend the little money they brought. Why do they have to handle everything??? Granted, some of them did have enough money to buy gifts. There was this one little girl, so adorable, who has $2 and kept asking how much things were...I told her and tried to guide her to what she could afford but she didn't like those (of course!). She decided to pool her $ with her brother's but then they couldn't agree! Siblings! :0)

When I got home I found that Frank was grating baking chocolate!!! Oh yeah, he found this recipe in the newspaper for some "healthy" cookies! So, he gets this baking bug in him once in a while and sometimes they actually come out great. I think this one leaves something lacking, though.

Ebay sales, gifts to ship and the pile keeps growing!! 19 packages finished and ready to mail and what happens? I ran out of packaging tape. So,I really had 20 packages to take to the post office!

What a day!
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December Photo Diary - Day 6 Saturday

So, this is from yesterday, Saturday. A day that hubby and I spend together and, yes, he actually suggested we go see Twilight. No, he hasn't read the book but he's started it. Yes, he has read the rotten reviews and still suggested going with me to see it. I knew he wouldn't like it. I knew he'd be bored! But, it was his idea, after all! When we came out he didn't say much except that the acting was pretty crappy. I didn't care...I just wanted to see it, and I'm glad I did. I know I'm past 50 but I liked it!

Then we spotted this house with a huge front yard and it was FULL of Christmas inflatables!! I mean from end to end, FULL!! I couldn't get a picture from one direction so dh actually slowed down so I could get a pic on the way home...not nearly as good as from the other direction. I love taking pictures of "Tacky Christmas Houses" as we call them.

Then a quick stop at Target for a few gift cards for St. Joe's Orphanage - Tracy's office is collecting them for the kids this year so I thought I'd chip in.

Gas is still creeping down! I couldn't believe I actually saw it for under $1.50! But, that wasn't very near my house. It's only a matter of time, though!

Dear Hubby frowns on me taking lots of pictures so that's one reason why there's only 6 for today and 3 of them are gas prices!
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December Photo Diary - Day 5

Yay, I'm finally caught up...well, almost.

Yesterday brought on another headache...I wish I could figure out why I'm getting so many all over again! Another trip to the post office...good for business. A trip to the bank for Girl Scouts...wish they were mine. And, gas came down again...always good news.

And, they chocolate spoons...got the learning curve down. This batch came out great! So, I've got some for my friends and some go into a gift basket for bowling on Monday.

Probably the best is that my Snapfish book came...the one that Oprah gave away on her show a few weeks ago. I agonized over it for a few days; I was obsessed with it, but it turned out great. I love it and can't wait to show it to my family.

Oh, yeah, got the carpet cleaned upstairs. Frank wanted that done before my other daughter and her boyfriend came home for winter break.

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December Photo Diary Day 4

Thursday...not very exciting. Small mosaic. BUT, The gas was 2 different prices at the same gas station on the same day! Now, isn't that exciting??

Adam Luther went with me to the post office and on other errands for the day - my social secretary to keep me on track. And, yes, he IS buckled is...what kind of a mother do you think I am!)

I also moved all my computer and Ebay sales stuff downstairs, now that the carpet is finished.

December Photo Diary - Day 3

The carpet stretcher guys finally came (said they would come yesterday but never showed!). They brought their "power stretcher" and did the downstairs in record time and left a big pile of scraps in their wake....just wondering where all that extra carpet came from anyway???

Wednesday means Weight Watcher day and, while the scale did go down, I wasn't brave enough to photograph the scale! - at least not yet. :0)

Then to baking! I love baking these little cookies because they are SO easy and look SO good. They are chocolate chip cookie dough baked in mini muffin pans. Then, as soon as they come out of the oven, you pop in Hershey Kisses! This time I used the traditional Milk Chocolate, and I tried the Mint Truffle and the Peppermint. All look great. I have to bring some to my bowling league holiday party on Monday and a huge amount will go to the Holiday Boutique bake sale at my synagogue tomorrow. The peppermints (red/white) are for bowling.

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I've been a little lax but I will try to be better. This mosaic is from December 2. I've decided to use my December Photo Diary to watch the gas fluctuate. I know it's weird but I've always had a habit of watching gas prices and now, for a change, they are actually dropping!!

But, on this day, we had to have our pool table moved off the carpet because the carpet needed to be re-stretched, soooo..... $165 later, it is on the linoleum and waiting for the carpet guys to come.

I was also busy on the scrapping table making 2 journal books - one for my sister's birthday and one for me for an on line challenge called Well...Scrap About It! And, yeah, hit the market for some frozen dinners...thought they looked neat in the basket all jumbled up. :0)

December Photo Diary

Here's my first December photo mosaic. Monday mornings mean bowling at Lyndon Lanes but this morning it also meant a headache. The Christmas cactus has been renamed the Holiday cactus because it doesn't matter what time of year it is when it decides to bloom...Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving...it has it's own internal calendar. Today was a gloomy, rainy day but seeing $1.58 gas brightened it up a little.