This morning I spilled coffee on myself, down the front of my shirt and onto my pants. I rock. I smell like coffee and the Tide instant stain-remover pen.
Last Friday was the company holiday party. I had thought about not going because of the disappointment of last year (not enough seats for dinner, lousy food) but we were assured that last years fiasco was a thing of the past and this year would be better. We arrived at Normandy Farm around 7:15 for the party and were not disappointed! The room reserved was larger than last year, there were plenty of tables, the food was much better. Unfortunately the entertainment, a band made up of some people in the company, was pretty loud and it was hard to talk to anyone. But they didn’t start playing until after we had finished eating so we could scoot out shortly after they began.
The weekend. Saturday we drove up to Varners Tree Farm in Trappe. The plan was to cut down our own tree like we did last year, but when we reached the tree farm we realized this would take way too long, the place was mobbed! We should have expected that, I took a half day off of work last year to get the tree, an option that wasn’t available this year because I don’t have time available to take off. They had live trees there, and spoke to someone there about purchasing one, but decided against it when she explained that they could only be inside your house for about a week – eep! I want my tree up for a month! Eventually we just decided to grab one of the pre-cut trees, it’s a tree farm, they pre-cut ones are very fresh too.
Our tree is nice, but I do like the adventure of going down to cut our own. Next year I’ll be sure to get that half day off from work.
Saturday evening we drove up to Quakertown to spend the evening with Michael’s family. At some point in the evening it was decided that it would be fun to get out the old 16MM films from back in the 40s of weddings and babies. It was all so Italian-American. I drank a lot of red wine.
Sunday I was dealing with the consequences of the red wine, haha! Actually I was fine by 10AM and went out to Dunkin’ Donuts to get bagels and coffee for Michael and myself. The day was pretty laid back, I did some reading, finished Infoquake which I really enjoyed. In the evening we decorated the living room and the tree.
Caligula helped
…actually Caligula mostly got in the way
Yay Christmas tree %)