Holiday Rush.

The Chistmukkah party held last Saturday was wonderful! We had roughly 30 people over and successfully messed up the thermostat for the rest of the building! (Too much body heat in the apartment with the thermostat--i.e. mine--makes Darrell and the other neighbors grumpy and cold.) At least they were nice about it.

Highlights:
-Getting a mini living Christmas tree from my Secret Santa at work. My apartment is too small for one (and/or I can't afford one), and the tiny Juniper looks sweet on top of the TV.

-I've finally figured out what my upstairs neighbor watches every morning at an obnoxiously loud level of volume: ESPN. Around 5:30am every day it comes on and wakes me up (I don't have to wake up till about 7am). Granted it's cool that a chick watches early editions and reruns of Sports Center every morning, but c'mon!

-Wednesday night I cooked dinner for Aaron and I (yay cooking!) Chicken, wild rice, and green beans. And I made a dump cake (cherries, pineapple, cakemix, coconut, pecans, butter-- bake at 350 for an hour) for surprise. I still have loads of dump cake left if any one wants to bring a tupperware over!

-Later Wednesday night, Aaron and I ended up going to Pub Quiz with John L. John was at a holiday party which ended up at Four Provinces. We weren't going to meet up at first, since it was the coldest day so far this winter, but after a few grunts and howls and the rhythmic thumping of my upstairs neighbor's bed and/or other furniture (as this time it sounded like it was coming from the living room), Aaron and I decided to drive the 1/8 of a mile to the Pub. We had a fun time-- Although we're peeved that we got the James Joyce question wrong.

-Last night I watched one of my favorites, Chungking Express.

-Ice on the roads this morning was no fun. Beware Kate's Red Jeep. You know, the only Jeep in the world w/o four-wheel drive. And I think I need new tires.

-Work is slowing down before the holidays a bit. But it'll be good to come back after the New Year with loads and loads to do as we have a huge release coming up. Next week we're having two big holiday lunches. One with the whole division (the Colonel's wife is buying us a ham, or hams) and one with just our documentation team! Yay for free food and Secret-Santa/Hanukkah Harry gifts!

-One week until Christmas (and Hanukkah!)! My shopping is done, I just have to do a tiny bit of wrapping and I'm good to go! And baking. I might do some more baking.

-Two weeks until we head up to Massachusetts again! We took December 30th off of work and we're going up to Pittsfield for the long weekend. We had so much fun seeing my cousins and thought this time Aaron and I would spend more than just two days there!

Tonight I think we're going to see King Kong! Aaron just Netflixed (verb?) the Fay Wray version last week. It's one of my favorite old movies. I hope P.J. does it justice.