I'm Coming Home to the Lights and Buzz

Happy Christmas Eve! I am getting ready to go to CLRG's parents' house for the day. We are having our Christmas celebration today because his sister has to work tomorrow. I packed up some cookies to take along with me. I hope they like them. CLRG should be leaving work relatively soon and then we will get everything we need to take into his car and hit the road. It's sunny here today, so I think we have little concern about wintry weather. Huzzah.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Well, looky here. It is almost Christmas! I can't believe it! I was pretty concerned that Pittsburgh wouldn't have any snow for the holidays but, on Friday, it started snowing and now we have a respectable amount of snow. It's snowing right now, too! Yay!!! Anyway, so Christmas is fast approaching and it is weird because I don't really feel super Christmasy. Sure, the snow helps; yes, getting gifts mailed out to my family helped; maybe the cookies I will bake today will help also. Buuuuuut.... my family is all kinds of scattered right now and it seems mostly wrong to be apart on the holidays. Pookie and Marms will be together with the dog, but Dadders will be alone and I feel really bad. I'll be here, but thankfully I have CLRG and we are going to his parents' house for dinner on Christmas Eve. I found out that I have the 24th-26th off from work and the thought crossed my mind to go see Dadders, but it really is too far for such a short visit, especially when he has so much work he is doing and so little free time. :o( It just sucks. Rawr. I don't even know what more to say about it.

So, back to happier things. Cookies. I am definitely planning to make chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and peanut butter cookies. I thought I had sugar cookie mix here, but I do not so I will probably go to the store to get some to make those. I am pretty excited. I bought a handheld mixer yesterday that was on sale and I think I know where the apron Marms gave me for Christmas last year is hiding. Huzzah!

CLRG insisted on giving me my Christmas gift a week ago when it arrived in the mail. I am very pleased that he did. He got me a Kindle and it is glorious. I finished reading Pride and Prejudice and then read Anne of Green Gables. I'm now reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, which has been pretty good so far. :o) He's so thoughtful. What an excellent gift. What an excellent boyfriend!

Okay... I think it's time to prep for the Cookie Baking Extravaganza of 2009.

I Wonder if You're Still Defending

I should be writing my last take-home final right now, but my level of motivation is at an all-time lowwwwww. For real. It's bad. Thankfully, come Thursday, I will be on a break.

I guess there is a big storm somewhere in the Midwest? My dad told me today that it might affect Pookie's holiday travel plans and I really hope that it does not. I was surprised when he said something about it at all because it really doesn't feel like winter here yet. It doesn't really feel Christmas-y and I would be really shocked if any snow came and stayed. You know?

Okay... maybe I should write.

Already Gone

Oh, Thanksgiving. Can't you be every day?

Oh less than a week to turn in the majority of my work. Can I do it? I sure hope so.

Cross your fingers.

Also, I think it tried to snow earlier. I am not very pleased.

These Flights Connect Through Arizona

Oh my word. I'm running out of time in the semester...

Yikes!!

It's You

SPOILER ALERT: Annoying, gushy lovestruck post below. Read at your own risk...

Today is my and CLRG's first anniversary. I can't believe it, really. One year ago, I made Elle walk with me to Panera to meet him and then he and I went to Silky's Pub, the Cage and Fanattics. We ate pizza and had some drinks and he drove me home and that was it. I'm so happy with him. He is so smart and cute and funny and thoughtful and loving. I can't remember not knowing him. Honestly. It's a very good thing. I love him so much. It's a fact. You probably already knew that.

The picture below is from the Halloween party he had at his house on Friday. We went as Peanut Butter & Jelly. This is also one of the few pictures in which he is not closing his eyes or making a ridiculous face (not that I don't love those. I obviously do. I make enough ridiculous faces, too) and I think it is magnificent.

Kilroy Was Here

This past weekend was really excellent. I didn't have to work on Friday, so I did laundry and watched some tv and did homework and straightened my hair. In the evening, I hung out CLRG. Saturday allowed for some sleeping in, some cuddling, eating out, homework and a movie. Sunday, I worked but even that wasn't terrible and I had a good afternoon. I am liking the way things have been going lately. I usually do, though.

The cats are hanging out with me right now, sleeping in a line at the end of CLRG's bed. Super cute. Just sayin'.