"You have the kind of nose people pay for...."

we finally had our housewarming party over the weekend. boy what a weekend we chose. it was snowing like mad and it was colder than i ever want to be. good times. we had a decent turn out. laura even hauled all the way up from Lone Tree so that was cool. there's a reason she's one of my bestest friends (don't worry, amy...no one is replacing you haha!). i think i was able to lure her with promises of chocolate chip cookies (many of which she took home since i owe her batches for the last 3 years worth of birthdays...she's so easy to please!)...

it was actually really nice to get our house as clean as we got it this weekend. todd described it as "warm and inviting" once everything was in it's place. true that! the office is still a total disaster area. we desperately need a shredded and a full day in there, just getting things tidied up. and we need to hang todd's "TV" and some other misc art. it's a process, i tell you. a big huge process.

christmas is coming faster than i'd imagined. i have some good cooking to do and i'm looking forward to that. our first christmas as a married couple (awwwww!). hopefully everything goes as well as it's going in my head.

i've been watching christmas movies like they're going out of style. Miracle on 34th Street (both the Maureen O'Hara and Elizabeth Perkins versions), A Christmas Carol (with Patrick Stewart, though i still maintain that George C. Scott is the best one), Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, White Christmas (not *technically* a christmas movie, but christmasy stuff happens)...i have all of the Santa Clause movies on tap, as well as Nat'l Lampoons Christmas Vacation, and some other misc. crap. gotta cram as much in as i can before Todd's head explodes from all the christmasing a forcing him into.

i'm making him nuts by listening to nothing but christmas music 24/7. i even make him fall asleep to it. i'm really only asking for a month of it, but it is a full month...i guess that could get tiring. not for me though. i have an entire book of CDs dedicated to nothing but christmas albums. i try to buy a new one each year. haven't gotten around to that this year. there are a couple swing christmas CDs that i'm dying to own. maybe in a couple days.

that's the story, morning glories.