do the dance of joy!

spent the morning decorating the office and now i'm in a delightful mood. i love the holidays. i love tinsel and cutouts of snowflakes. i love trees and lights and egg nog and candy canes. snow can stay on the mountains, but frost is really pretty on the grass.

spent most of last night in the kitchen cooking and doing dishes and trying to clean the neon yellow highlighter ink from my fubsy bag. i'm so annoyed. the cap came off and, even though you can't see it, the material has soaked up a pen's worth of ink and leaves greenish-yellow splotches everywhere it touches. i wonder if i can get it dry-cleaned. i'm fairly certain i shouldn't machine wash it. tips? i could use some.

there would have been some cookie-baking last night as well, but i forgot to buy brown sugar. i'll pick some up tonight on the way home. i really want to try this new recipe for chocolate chip cookies. too keep with the whole wintery theme, i even got mint chocolate chips! i'm such the gourmet.

hm, i should probably do homework too... i can do that while they're baking. yeah!

last night was also spent doubled over in gastro-intestinal distress. besides eating something which really disagreed with my lower intestine, i think my new multi-vitamin isn't empty-stomach-friendly. i discussed my condition with dr. jim and after a couple slices of (expensive safeway) cheese, my tummy settled down enough for me to fall into a very deep and restful sleep.

i upped my weights yesterday and now i'm paying for it. ugh. my arms are all sore and tight. it's a good hurt. at least that's what i keep telling myself.

and they finally put my name on my parking spot! go me!