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December 20, 2005

chocolate overload

After our fabulous xmas party this last weekend we found ourselves overloaded with sweet treats. Multiple towers of candy, plates of cookies, buckets of chocolate truffles, and if that wasn't enough, one of the directors at work decided we were going to have a cookie swap yesterday.

Sunday found me terribly sick, not hung-over sick, but my cold worsened to miserableness. Joe babied me all day as he is so excellent at doing (I have such a kick-ass husband!). But at 7:30PM he suddenly realized we hadn't made the cookies for the swap. I wanted to just bring in a tower of something but there wasn't enough of the same thing for everyone so we settled in to make my favorite cookie of all time--mayonnaise sugar cookies (oh my they are AMAZING). With Joe helping it went three times as fast as I would have muddled along on my own.

So now we have mayo sugar cookies at home too. We're going to bring them all to the Pitt over Xmas, which is what we call Pittsfield, MA. All the cousins and aunts and uncles will hopefully devour them. I've become a total slug over the last four days because of being sick and so having all the sugar, being sick and not going to the gym is taking a toll on me. Argh. And I was doing so well with my training too.

But the good thing is that I finally figured out what to get Joe for Christmas. This is always a huge travail for me--he's terribly difficult to buy for. He just doesn't want much--or they are things that are bigger than our budget. If I had my way we'd take a trip somewhere. There's nothing more awesome than running away with him and getting away from everyone and everything.

The holiday season is such a huge time of reflection for me and one of the things that I realize is how completely happy I am right now. I love my job. I have really wonderful friends. I love where we live. I have the best fucking cat on the planet. My in-laws love me. I have family that is all getting along and cares deeply about each other. I am accomplishing things all the time even if it feels like I sometimes do them slowly. With the exception of this last week I am becoming healthier than I've been since childhood. And I have the most amazing relationship with Joe. It gets better all the time. He's the single person that I could literally spend every second of the day with and not want to kill them. I am always amazed by this. After five years you might think that would change as we get more settled into marriage but it just gets cooler all the time.

I'm also looking forward to going to Ikea with AJ next week--we both have the week off and the only possible time of saneness would be mid-day. You can't get near it otherwise. And New Years--for which Joe and I finally have a party to go to!

Posted by crystallyn at December 20, 2005 06:57 AM

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Posted by: shel at December 20, 2005 10:41 PM