It was so nice to wake up in my own bed this morning! Totally worth driving through the rain last night. Even though ned_gasket tried to tempt me with omlettes for breakfast. I love you guys, but I just don't sleep well away from home, and I was feeling the holiday overload. I had a lot of fun, though; my cheeks hurt from laughing during the Yankee Swap. We are one silly group of folks!

I love the trivet, and the faery top!! I can't wait to have an opportunity to wear it. The top, not the trivet. *g*

justjanus gave me a calendar of his photographs. What a neat idea! I should do that. Next year. :)

Just when I thought I was through with the cookies, my mom send me home with a tub full of them. And a linzer torte. After asking if I'd lost weight. Thanks, mom! My coworkers will share in the bounty. *g*

So glad to have an extra day to decompress. It will be a nice, short workweek. Yay!

We just had our cookie exchange, and I am the proud owner of a bag full of cookies. When I signed up for this, I was thinking how much fun making the cookies would be; I wasn't thinking what the heck will I do with six dozen cookies? I will be bringing some to the coven Yule this Saturday, and likely to textiletart and company's xmas party on Monday. Mmmmmm, cookies!

There is food *everywhere* in this building. Several grateful groups have sent along gift baskets, which have been arranged on the kitchen table. The company bought us pizza for lunch, and of course there are cookies everywhere. We've all been grazing all day. I'm thinking supper is going to be a light one. Maybe toast.

Our Secret Santa exchange was this afternoon, also. Someone gave me a Barnes & Noble gift certificate! How thoughtful. :)

Not much work is getting done, but there's really not a lot to do today. I finished all my last runs yesterday, because we have an early deadline this week. We're working a half-day on Friday, so we'll be doing the classifieds Thursday afternoon. It's not a big time for advertising.

Ooh, Kitti said she was talking with a photographer friend, and he said there is a good chance we could get our pictures displayed in a downtown Springfield cafe! Wouldn't that be nifty? I should get some more of that canvas-texture photo paper; I love the way photos look on that, and a lot of my photos would work really well that way. I have some regular photo paper somewhere as well. Squee!

One of the features of a paid account is being able to read your friends' friends all on one page, which is shiny. I've actually found a couple of new additions to the f-list that way. In the past, I occasionally read friends' f-lists, but now I can really waste time! *g*