December 11th, 2009 by Kateastrophe

Where have I been???  Sheesh!

Last time I was around here was Thanksgiving!  That’s like a million years in Blog time.  B

Our Thanksgiving was awesome.  I spent almost an entire week cooking and prepping and then literally spent the whole day cooking.  The food was amazing and I was tired.  I made several recipes from Luisa Perkins’ AMAZING cookbook, Comfortably Yum and they were a huge hit.  I’ve been meaning to give her a shout-out for months now.  That woman?  Can cook.  Everything in that cookbook is drool worthy delicious.  If you like to cook even a little bit, do yourself a favor and go buy it now.  My #1 recommendation thus far is the cranberry chutney.  Or the applie pie.  Or the lasagna.  Or the shepherd’s pie.  Ok fine I can’t choose a favorite.

I am somehow super on top of life right now and by December 3rd I had 99% of my Christmas shopping complete and all the decorations but the tree up, and that wasn’t far behind.  We have big old lights on the outside (which I LOVE) and 27 strands of twinkle lights on the 9′ Christmas tree.  That’s right, I said TWENTY-SEVEN.  Let’s all pray I can keep that sucker hydrated.  And don’t worry electricians (cough*Steve*cough), I bought power strips and no more than three (ok maybe four) strands are hooked together.  I’m not going to start a fire THAT way.  I’m going to start it the OTHER way when the tree dies and dries out and the lights are too hot.  I’m a responsible fire starter.  Duh.

All that’s left are a few presents for friends (RHONDA - so hard to shop for) and small neighbor/work gifts and I’m dunzo.  Which means I’m not sure what to do with the rest of December.  Which is weird because I think I’m so used to chaos I don’t know what to do when I don’t have it.  I won’t be relaxing, that’s for sure, because I belong to Anxieties-r-us and will find some way to make myself have a Christmas melt-down.  Hello, Xanax.

We’re staying home for Christmas due to the fact that I have a 90-day probationary period at the new j-o-b which means (as I believe I’ve mentioned before) no days off for me.  I think this is the longest I’ve gone without a non-holiday day off and I’m pretty sure my vacation brain cells are exploding.  When that 90 days are up I’m going to throw myself a HUGE party.  Either that or take a day off.  Because I can. 

We’re having our second annual New Year’s Eve/My Birthday party and I’m SO EXCITED.  I maybe invited too many people, but that’s OK.  It’s going to be even more fun than last year’s party which, if I do say so myself, was awesome. 

My dear, creative, amazing friend Julia designed the cutest.invitation.ever.  I’m serious.  SEE?

It’s so great.  And I’m going to be 29 and whimsy, which is maybe even more great!  30 here I come!

Now I’m off to get my eyebrows waxed because ohmagosh I look like a yetti.  Seriously.