A Productive Day

Food-wise, today (Sunday) tanked.  I ate lots of yummy things I shouldn’t have been eating.  However, my day was extremely productive on all other fronts.

• I trimmed an inch off of my own hair and according to my mom, I did a pretty great job!  I may try it a bit shorter next weekend – nothing drastic, just maybe a couple of inches.  My hair’s long enough that it probably won’t make much of a difference.
• Instead of staying in where it was toasty warm, my mom and I ended up running some more errands and we are both now official DONE with our Christmas shopping.
• I then talked my mom into wrapping most of my gifts for me.  )  Gotta love moms who love to wrap.  I did organize and get everything together and tell her what went with what, etc.  Oh and I put the name tags on! )
• I got a couple of packages almost ready to mail.  I just need to put the finishing touches on one gift and then wrap it and pack it all up with addresses, etc.  Both of the recipients know me well enough to know that their gifts will be late.  )
• I finished up my mini-gifts for most of my co-workers and then packed up the gifts for my closest co-worker that I consider a friend.  They’re all ready next to my bag to go to work tomorrow.
• I got a couple of Christmas cards ready to mail.  I decided not to do many snail mail cards this year in favor of electronic messages -  most of my friends don’t send cards anyway.  But there are a few I want to send.  I was also EXTREMELY surprised and flattered to have received a card in the mail yesterday from one of the higher ups at my company!  Okay, honestly, you could have knocked me over with a feather.  It was even personally addressed in his handwriting.  He’s the one who complimented me to the CEO.  So I figured I should reciprocate.  I don’t know if the others in my department received them, but I hope so! It was a good feeling and they deserve it, too.
• I have two first cousins.  One is female and one is male (brother and sister).  Over the past year, they’ve both had babies.  The male cousin’s girlfriend had the baby, of course.  Last I checked, he wasn’t born with any special capabilities.  My female cousin had mentioned a few months ago that she’d like to have a bracelet with her son’s name on it.  I make jewelry on occasion and thought that it would be nice to do one for her.  We don’t normally exchange gifts, but I thought it would be nice.  Of course, I couldn’t do one for her without doing one for my other cousin’s girlfriend.  My mom and I went shopping for some of the beads today and she decided to go in with me on the cost.  Thank God, because I decided to go the sterling silver route and it ended up being a tad more expensive than I’d planned.  So not only did I get the materials I needed, but I also got the bracelets done! Hopefully they don’t read my blog, but if they do, “hi guys!”  Hope you can act surprised when you see these on Thursday! )  I also hope you like them!  The female cousin has a stepson, so I decided to make her’s a double-strand so that he wouldn’t feel left out.  I also included their birthstone colors.

• I then cleaned up the mess I made from all the shopping, wrapping, decorating, etc.
• AND if that wasn’t enough, I then did my laundry and gathered up and took out the trash (tomorrow’s trash day).

Overall, today wasn’t quite as restful as I’d hoped, but I feel good about what I got done.  Perhaps I’ll be able to relax a bit next weekend.  I’m so looking forward to it.  I love long weekends.