It really doesn’t feel like Christmas Eve should be tomorrow. This year has completely passed me by it seems. So this past Sunday I scurried home to watch my mom in the cantata. They went with a shorter program which made it much more enjoyable for my attention span. I planned on taking photos but for the first time ever, the place was completely packed and not half empty, leaving no room to move.

I spent Monday creating my lil gifts for the creative team at work (pictured). As is usual with my crazy schemes, it turned out to be a lot more work than anticipated, but I was glad I took time to do it. Last night I threw together the decorated cookies and wrapped those all up and stuffed the stockings. I ran out time to make the cookies as cool as initially intended but luckily the random Internet recipe pulled through for me and they tasted good. I finally got to bed a lil after 12, knowing I had to get up at 5:30am so I could get to work early to have everyone’s stockings hung up before they arrived. I can go on lil sleep when I have things like that to do. Everyone seemed to really appreciate the cookies. I had the strangest encounter with the CEO just coming over to me with his hands up just repeating “are there more cookies?” Amy & I were a lil freaked out by it hehe. Ah but yes, the recipe did let me down on qty of cookies. I barely had enough for 1/person.

Work was really nice. Adam had filmed his fireplace (very artistically) and set the footage to Xmas music, so that was playing on the plasma. I never say this, but really “bless his heart” is all that seems appropriate. I feel like I spend so much of my day turned around chatting with Amy, but still, yesterday was very productive. I got much accomplished.

Amy invited me to join her for some shopping after work and then invited me on over to have dinner with she & Alex from there. Poor Alex was nervous because it was his experimental cooking night. Black bean chicken soup I think it was…it was really tasty! Experiment gone well. We watched The Forgotten…[spoiler alert, skip to next paragraph]...but right at the beginning, I said “I’m gonna be so pissed if it’s aliens.” And well, sure enough. Argh. Though I give it credit for having incredible sound and 3 moments that scared the living hell out of us just from pure unexpected surprise. All 3 of us literally screamed like little girls at one point. It didn’t help that we had all happened to turn away and reach for blankets at that point, so we were certain the glass breaking was someone actually coming through their house window. Never had a movie made my heart race like that. Amy & Alex’s awesome surround speakers made the movie more enjoyable.

So Alex ended up sneaking off to play Warcraft tsk, tsk. Whenever Amy would leave the room, he would try to tap in to my weaknesses and persuade me to start playing. I have been fighting the urge to play some FPS, but I’m still quite comfortable with my current relationship with Warcraft, which is giving hell to everyone who plays it. :) Besides, I told him I’d have to finish D2 and COD before I started a new game…haven’t touched them in years.

I didn’t intend to spend the night but Amy & I ended up talking in to the wee hours. It’s really quite freakish how similar our lives and family experiences have been. I’m glad to have her around. I’d prolly be going insane without Rach about this time. I’ll admit as we drove away from Castleton to her place, I gave myself a little pat on the back and said “aww mindy, you have friends.” What’s more amusing is when we actually got there, Amy was like, “you can come here anytime…cuz we’re like ‘oooh friends’ ” Haha. Really looking forward to her shindig next week. I told her it will take 2 drinks for me to be comfortable in my dress though.

ooh and yes…I sent her the MP3 i made of me attempting a Brit accent for my Brit. It’s seriously 5 minutes and she listened to the whole damn thing and was practically crying from laughing so hard through it. She shares so many of my guilty pleasures. With everyone I meet I realize how not strange I am, which is cool but mildly disappointing at the same time :)

and quote of yesterday:

“Mindy, it’s hot when you get all domesticated like that.”