Good two-weeks-until Christmas Eve! I swore last weekend that I'd finished my Christmas shopping, then SD announced that she was bringing her new boyfriend for Christmas, so that meant another trip out today to buy for him. Can't have anyone just sitting there on Christmas morning while everyone else is opening their gifts!!! Actually, he was the easiest person on my list to shop for.LOL Suzanne, I not only copied your recipe for the mug cakes, but I also copied and saved the photo! I want to make those next Christmas. Too much on my plate this year as I'm realizing the hard way. My house is in desperate need of attention. Our trip is still not officially decorated yet, nor is the house. *sigh* Marci, I'm glad that you're feeling better. Once you announce your pending retirement, you'll feel even better! Raeanne, way to go on getting that physical! BJ, your ornie will be on its way tomorrow, so watch for it! Maddie, hope you did great on your test last night, and happy studying this weekend for the exams next week! Jan, I finally watched BL this morning, and it was so good! I've never been a Tracie fan, and I thought her face looked very wrinkly when she'd smile. Her excess weight left her 'loose'. Tikanis, do the best you can on working out. It's all you CAN do, so don't be so hard on yourself. I've got almost all my postal items ready to mail tomorrow morning, then I'm off to donate items to our local thrift store, and then to our church to wrap all the presents we bought last Thursday for the Angel Tree. Tomorrow night is a business Christmas party - a fancy dress one! Saturday night is hubby's company party, and it's also dressy. It's so cold here and will be for the next few days that I had to buy a dressy black wrap to wear with my party clothes this weekend. I have one more present to tend to before I can box it up for mailing, so I'll end now. Just wanted to check in with everyone. Have a good evening!

Buehl, please do! I was just trying to save something of use. I'd been checking the GW all night, turned my back for 15 minutes to watch the Health Care vote, and whammo! all the posts were gone. I kept refreshing, thinking, "This can't be!"

My Maine-to-Missouri trip completed (Third Hill North of Town), I've now moved on to Moscow in The Billion Dollar Spy, Quite a change of scenery ... and temperature.

My guys (husband and son) LOVE their stockings - I find it harder to find small items for the guys (girls = easy for me, makeup items, hair ties, lip balm, small lotion, nail polish, etc). I usually stuff theirs with lip balm, beard pomade, gum, mints, candy and various other small items that tend to add up so I try to buy during the year. Funny story. I've been married for almost 28 years, about 3 years ago it finally occurred to my husband that as much as he enjoyed his stocking maybe he should be doing my stocking...better late than never.