Lazy Sunday?

YEsterday, went to aerobics, and then work for a few hours. More to make a full 40-hour week; a little bit to reduce my stress level a bit.

I actually LOVE this Saturday schedule. I enjoy the quite at work, and am in such a good mood after aerobics. So I get a lot done and enjoy some quiet time in my week. (No co-workers, no clients, no family. It's my sanctuary I guess). Everyone thinks I am so dedicated and deprived, and it's my favorite part of the week. My rule is only work I want to do on Saturdays - that helps too.

Kudos to impressing boss who was there. (He won't be impressed once he sees my 40 hour time card - LOL). I always notice that making a night or weekend appearance earns kudos. No one notices if you were missing in the morning or part of the week. Teehee. But my boss will with the timecard, yes.

Came home and we decorated the Christmas tree.

We decided not to use the LEDs for whatever reason. Well, dh did. I think we will pick some up after Christmas though - see if we can get some discounted ones for next year.

So yeah, dh returned those and got some jeans for BM and a gift card for BM's teacher. Those were on my to do list. So that was nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BM grew a few inches overnight. Yeesh. I figured only another couple of weeks of school. Will have to evaluate his pant situation during the break - will need to buy more. (In August the size 6 were HUGE - MIL bought them - I was wondering what she was thinking. Well, um, now I see what she was thinking. LOL. They fit perfect now. Grateful to have some nice school pants that fit).

Dh rented some video game - Wario Ware Smooth Moves. It's a good game if you want to get ADD. O.M.G. But yeah, we played with that a bit. I don't think that was a good one for the kids. But, certainly weird.

I made some hot dog spaghetti dinner - another new recipe. It was a lot like my beanies/weanies except it used tomato sauce instead of ketchup. Other ingredients largely the same. Well, included veggies. Anyway, it wasn't the greatest, but thought I could experiment with the beanies/weanies next time. Ketchup taste better, yes, but this wasn't half bad and it was considerably healthier.

After that we went out to look at Christmas lights. It's supposed to rain and get cold, so we took advantage while it was clear. Temp was in the 30s, I was not happy with that. Brrrrrrrrrr... But we survived...

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Another charity is coming by for a pickup next week. I purged a lot of Christmas stuff. HAd a lot of Christmas lights that we will never use. Some ornaments. A lot of white elephant gifts. I decided to purge them all. There will always be more!

Oh yeah, and MIL dropped off a ton of crap. HEr old cast offs, thought might be nice for the teachers. (She's a teacher, she told us a million times teachers only want gift cards. LOL). But if it helps her... A lot of the stuff was just crap. I threw it all in the donation pile!

I found my christmas tree scented candle. Ahhhh. We have the fake tree up, but the candle gives us true Christmas ambience.

Dh also found quite a few empty boxes in the closet.

So yeah, still making de-cluttering progress.

We have some toys to try to sell on Craigslist.

Dh and I are also working on a puzzle. It's addicting.

I don't have much to do with Christmas. Since it's such a busy time at work, we keep it simple.

I ordered some bike horns online for the kids (from Santa). I bought some almond roca for my dad. I didn't realize it was on sale either - so was a nice surprise.

Oh, I found a beautiful Christmas cookie jar that is perfect for my work gift exchange. If I am ambitious it will come with homemade cookies. (If not, maybe store bought ones). Saved some money there. Is a nice gift. That was a MIL cast off as well. I was going to donate it, but it was larger and more fragile, so I found the perfect place for it!

In other news, signed up BM for Tee Ball (as mentioned) and renewed my CPA license. Sent in the check anyway.

For today, Sunday, not much planned. Taking it easy!