Twas The Day After Christmas

I scored pretty good on Christmas.  I got my own personal box of Frangos.  If you don’t know what Frango’s  are, I weep for your ignorance.  If you do know, you can understand my exuberance.  I also got a GPS, so when the Queen tells me to get lost, I can find my way back home.  I got a Christmas scrapbook album and a Christmas scrapbook paper pack.  I used some information from Erin Manning’s blog to take some decent photos so maybe I‘ll use the album.  I also got $100 to use for the Northwest Paper Chase in March.

 

I got the Queen a good lamp for her stamping table and a new cell-phone with all the stuff on it.  It will still be a poor excuse for a phone, but all the other stuff works great, and she’s happy.

 

The house got put back together after the bash we had here last night.  We had 19 for dinner, 5 were under 5 years old.  We need a carpet cleaner, even though Mitsy the dog tried to keep up as best she could.  I think she gained a couple of pounds.

 

We have been house-bound for 9 days now, but then we have both been sick with the flu and don’t feel like going anywhere.  We still have 6-8” of snow in our driveway.  One of our sons cleaned the snow off half of our back awning as that is as far as he could reach.  I am afraid we may lose it due to the weight of the snow.  We hope to go shopping on Sunday, if the rain melts the snow pack.

 

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt. Sandra Boynton, author of Chocolate: the Consuming Passion

 

I have to go check on my Frangos.

Survivor

I am on the road to recovery.  I came down with a cold on Dec 5 and today I think it is waning.  I still have a cough, but I feel good.  After almost 3 weeks of sleeping in my recliner, I am looking forward to sleeping in bed tonight.

I have Snowmen for sale in my yard (some assembly may be required).  The ones in the driveway are the least expensive, if you are looking for a bargain. 

We have a 10’ X 30’ awning over our back deck and the whole deck is covered in snow.  The same in front, there is a 10’ X 20’ awning over the front patio and it is covered with snow too.

We were fortunate, the kids brought over groceries for us last night, so the Queen can fix Christmas dinner.  I think I heard there will be 19 of us.  With the roads the way they are, maybe not so many.

I have been able to venture out to the studio a few times.  I finished a 6X6 album from the CKC, and I completed my project for the Crop-a-Latte meeting next month.  Next, I want to make some gifts to take to the stores involved with the Northwest Paper Chase in March.

I hope everybody has a great Christmas and New Year.

To All Employees
From Management
Subject Office conduct during the Christmas season

Effective immediately, employees should keep in mind the following guidelines in compliance with FROLIC (the Federal Revelry Office and Leisure Industry Council).

Running aluminum foil through the paper shredder to make tinsel is discouraged.

Playing Jingle Bells on the push-button phone is forbidden (it runs up an incredible long distance bill)

Work requests are not to be filed under “Bah humbug.”

Company cars are not to be used to go over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house.

All fruitcake is to be eaten BEFORE July 25.

Egg nog will NOT be dispensed in vending machines.

In spite of all this, the staff is encouraged to have a Happy Holiday.