Dear Diary Monday...

Mood....wonderful.

The weekend was wonderful!

Friday night we went to Jer and Michelle's for good friends, good food, and great atmosphere. Again, Michelle's home is just so beautiful with how she decorates and accents. The food was exceptional and Dylan and I had a great time relaxing with old and new friends. Highlights of the food was the homemade chile verde by Toni, "Chet's Salad" from Shane, and of course, Jeremy's pina colada and Michelle's Jell-o shooters. Fortunately for us all, I stayed away from the shooters and the pina colada.

Saturday Dylan and I finished up our Christmas shopping. Unfortunately for Dylan, I was dragging quite a bit because I am trying hard to fight off this cold, so he had to take me back home fairly early so I could nap. After getting my second wind, we went out again to finish everything up that we needed. I can now say happily that the "shopping" part of Christmas is finished and now I just need to wrap.

Sunday I went shopping with the folks and then I started the wrapping part of Christmas, along with making a big pot of potato, ham, corn chowder. My sister stopped by with a plate of cookies, and then my hill-billy cousins came down to my folks house and came over for a few moments to see my new home. All in all, it was a pretty relaxing Sunday, other than trying to continuously fight off this cold. I went to bed pretty early with a sore throat and I hoped I would wake up with it gone.....not a chance.

This week is going to be hectic but wonderful. I have the ham and turkey in the freezer for Christmas dinner and really all I need to do is clean, cook, and wrap. I am HOPING I will be able to take some time off this week to get all that done, but we will see.