I know at least one puppy getting coal this year!

Last week I finally got around to making puppy a Christmas Stocking. I know, I need help... but if hubby and I each had one, it is only fair. I even had enough of the same material left that I used last year... so all three match!

Today I ran out to get a new outfit for my work holiday party this week. Working from home, my work clothes are pretty sad... in any case, puppy was left alone in the house. Normally this is not an issue. This time however, she was a very bad puppy. I have the cutest little fake squirrel that I put at the bottom of my LA Palm Christmas Tree. I have this tree set up in my office this year. Here is a picture of the tree in our Cally house last year.... note the squirrel way at the bottom......

Here is what my cute little squirrel looks like now......

The back of his skull is half eaten and his tail is only hanging on by a thread. My dog is so getting coal in that stocking this year!

Busy Bee...

My family is coming down for a holiday weekend visit... both my side and my in-laws. Its going to make for a house full of people and hopefully a fun time.

I am however in full prep mode. Every time I sit down to try to post something, I think of something else that needs to be done. This weekend was cookie baking weekend. I made Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Chips on Friday. Saturday was Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate chips and Triple Ginger Snaps. Then on Sunday it was a loaf of Banana Orange Cranberry Walnut bread, inside out Almond Joys, and Spritz cookies.

I had to laugh with the spritz cookies. Normally I use the wreath and tree patterns with my press, but I seem to have lost the wreath one. I did not want all trees, that is dull, so I went digging in my pattern and tip jar. Really I should say my mom's old pattern and tip jar.

She gave up on baking cookies a while ago and I inherited the jar and press. In the bottom of the jar I found the perfect new pattern. A puppy dog! Funny how all these years I never even noticed that one. I've turned into a dog person. Heaven help me. heehee Here's how they turned out.. oh and they are just as yummy as they look!

Time....

Its only Dec 5th and I'm already behind. I need more time. All day long I work and work and then I get to get off of work and just start the house work. I work and work around the house and yet the list never gets smaller. I'm not getting any closer to the me I want to be because I just don't have time to figure anything out.

God I hope January is better and I can actually carve out some time to maybe work in the great craft room I have been putting together... or even post a few decent entries to this blog that don't just entail me re-capping a day or sharing something cute the dog did.

I don't even have kids and I can't even find time to do what I want to do.... I think I need help... but to tell the truth I don't even know where to start!

OK and seriously, why can't I learn how to spell BECAUSE? 33 years old.. I should be able to learn that one. Seriously.... every time I spell it wrong. Even Hubby noticed it since I don't spell check my emails to him.

Gotta love the flu

I was sick yesterday.... boy was I sick. Nothing like spending the day laying on the couch only getting up to throw up or let your poor dog outside. Granted it snowed here yesterday too and my poor dog likes to get her rope tangled up. SO letting the dog outside consists of bundling myself up and then dragging myself outside and down the flight of stairs on the deck to free the puppy who has wound her lead around god knows how many shrubs. Not exactly fun when the earth is spinning way worse than normal. I resorted to actually just letting her on the deck and hoping she would pee there.... but of course my puppy is too well trained for that! What was I thinking training her like that.

At least today, although still weak, I'm actually sitting up and working... not to mention not puking any more. Sleep still sounds better than work... but I'm running out of days off!

I guess I should be happy that I did not get sick until after the holiday weekend. We had a pretty good time. My sister had the big thanksgiving dinner and an even bigger surprise for us when we got there. They are expecting their first child.... actually our first kid in the family. My mom was thrilled that she is finally going to be a grandma. I can't believe I'll be an aunt! My sister on the other hand is sick as a dog. Well actually I guess she is sick as an expectant mother. Turns out god awful morning sickness pretty much runs in the family. Kind of makes me want to go and stock up on the birth control specially after one day of the flu yesterday!