what i did today

Well this is my busiest week of the holidays.  I have something to do every night this week.

Last night we went to S’s house for a "cultural night".  I guy from Turkey was in and we had tea and Turkish desserts.  If you EVER get the chance to have Turkish Baklava instead of Greek, my friend, jump all over that.  That stuff is GOOD.  Twenty minutes into our visit Lexi had her first potty training accident in public and I didn’t have any clothes for her so I had to go home.  It was already 7:30 and seeing the late night Lexi had the night before, she really needed to get to bed so it turned out for the best.  I actually heard it sort of turned into a high pressured carpet sales gig so I’m actually thankful Lexi had an accident.

Still no dress for tomorrow night so instead of scrambling for a sitter for Scott’s work party and Scott possibly not showing up or leaving since he’s on duty, I’m deciding to skip it and go shopping with the girls and Heather. 

As for the rest of the week…tomorrow night is the cotillion, Thursday we’re having D&D and J&W over, Friday is mom’s housewarming thing and Saturday is the Daughtry concert.

Three down, several more to go. Tonight was a good time. Jaynee had a very diverse group of people there. She’s a brave woman inviting church, work, personal and family friends all to one party. But I think we all mingled pretty well. It was nice to see people we recognized from last year. I think it’s kind of interesting to catch up with people at the same party every year and never really know them outside of that. I also enjoyed talking with Jen after only meeting her briefly back in the fall.

One neat little thing happened worth mentioning. I got to talking to one of the girls there that works with Jaynee’s husband and it turns out we went to school together, I used to live in the same neighborhood as a bunch of her friends and we actually dated the same guy. Pretty small world if you ask me.

All in all, the food was fabulous and the exchange was funny. One question pretty much sums up the exchange – “May I please have your poop?”

Last night and today have been/will be busy but wanted to check in.  The Christmas party for Scott’s shift was a lot of fun last night.  I realized that the Trivia Pursuit, Pop Culture version is worthless because most of it is pop culture before 1990.  I was horrible at it.

This morning I woke up just in time to be at choir practice at 10 and then the four of us went to eat and then went to buy a Christmas present.  At least that’s one more marked off. 

Our prospective youth pastor is in town and we’re supposed to take him out to dinner.  I think we may make it to part of that before we head to Jaynee’s white elephant exchange. 

Now I need to clean with what little time I have.  So here I go…

I’m not sure I even have the energy to talk about everything I did today.  It went something like…

1. church
2. lunch at MIL’s
3. stopped at Scott’s uncle’s
4. changed clothes at home
5. went to Target
6. went to CVS
7. went to choir
8. took the kids to Mom’s
9. went to Dick’s and bought an elliptical (yay!)
10. crashed at home

Good Points:

We got an elliptical on a great deal.  Which means I can finally put to rest the whole conversation about the gym or buying an elliptical.  Now I just have to use it.

Sunday School was good today (due to absentees).

CVS went well (more on that later).

We had the first Christmas party tonight.  It was for my church’s choir at our FLC/gym.  It was low-key but actually a lot of fun.  Our pastor’s daughter came up with a bunch of games for us to do and while I grimaced at the thought of party games, it ended up being great fun.  We had quizzes on Christmas music, played Bingo, split in teams and dressed up a person as Santa with minimal office products, rolled grapefruit across the floor by hitting it with another grapefruit in pantyhose tied around our waists (yeah, that was as funny as it sounds) and 12 people volunteered to act out the 12 days of Christmas which had us all rolling.  It was a great night and definitely a great start to all these parties.  And since they’re all incognito, I thought I’d post a picture of all of our Santas.

I am going to be BUSY the next few weeks with parties and such.  Here’s the run down.

• Sat Dec 1 Choir Christmas Dinner
• Fri Dec 7 Scott’s Shift Party
• Sat Dec 8 Jaynee’s White Elephant Exchange
• Wed Dec 12 Youth Group Cotillion.  Also Scott’s county’s Christmas Dinner but he’ll be going to that since he’s working and I’ll go to the cotillion
• Sat Dec 15 Daughtry concert – not Christmas, but on the schedule nonetheless
• Wed Dec 20- Sun Dec 23 Will be in Maryland visiting family and will probably attend 3 separate Christmas get-togethers
• Mon Dec 24 Not sure on the date on this but we have a Christmas thing at Scott’s grandmothers
• Tues Dec 25 Christmas day we have Christmas here in the morning and then usually visit both parents houses
• Also not scheduled is our get-together with D&D.

That is all happening within about 3 weeks.  I’m thinking I need to get all my shopping done this weekend or I seriously need to do it online.

Well after drinking four or five glasses of water last night and a full night’s sleep, the major pain I had last night is gone this morning.  It still doesn’t feel quite right on my left side but it’s lower down and not as strong.  I’m hoping that means it’s an intestinal issue versus kidney issue.  People are scaring the crap out of me about passing a stone.  I really don’t care to have another birth story.