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Today is the birthday of My Girls, Campbell & Barrett. Hard to believe that those tiny little girls we adopted in March are turning a year old today. They've brought such happiness into our home. Cami has grown up into a little imp. She wants all of mommys attention at all times. She's a bit of a pouter if she doesn't get her way. Cami is also the neurotic one. She's our little headcase. Barrett still resides on her own little happy planet. She is full of love and kisses and is our gentle giant. She's much more relaxed than Cami, but requires quite a bit of attention as well. Not that sweet puppy kisses are a bad thing!
John and I had a very quiet Christmas at home this year. We spent Christmas Eve with his family and, as usual, had a lovely time. My time was made most lovely by the Grey Goose martinis we whipped up at the end of the night. I don't know why we waited so long....anyway, it was lovely. John and I hunkered down all day on Christmas. We watched some football and got sucked into the Law & Order marathon. I did cook a nice meal, though. Nothing like filet mignon and lobster tails to make an evening memorable. Toss in some mashed potatoes and broccoli, and we were quite satisfied little campers.
Ted, Catherine and the boys are up from Alabama. They just arrived a short time ago and are heading to M&D's house. We'll see them tomorrow, along with the rest of the fam, for Christmas celebration at my parent's house. On Thursday, we'll be taking in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. I just love that show. The living manger at the end is like nothing you've ever seen. When the orchestra blares "Oh Come all Ye Faithful" and the manger begins to move, my soul is just rocked. It's so moving.
Got an iPod Nano from John this year. Pretty cool little device. I only loaded a few songs on it, but I can't wait to begin to use it in the car. My commute is horrible and I'm tired of all my pre-sets. iPod to the rescue! John also tossed in some serious bling this year. Two fabulous white gold necklaces with diamonds. Gorgeous. Major sparklies. I'm such the girl when it comes to jewelry. Thank gawd my parents raised me right. ; )
Yesterday was a bit of a tough day. It was one year ago that John and I lost our beloved, Tighe. I put a wreath out on his grave and spent a few minutes with him. That, of course, resulted in major tears, which I am again experiencing right at this moment. Although our girls bring us much happiness, our Noble Tiberius can never be replaced. We miss him desperately.
OK, enough sadness for today.
Not much of a Christmas person, but this year I'm doing my best to get into the spirit. My nice big fat bonus check has definitely helped improve my rather Grinch-like mood. Hopefully the rest of our employees will be happy with their checks and the morale will improve. I'm not holding my breath, though.
I've been going to the gym twice a week for 3 weeks now and I am already starting to see some improvements. I feel stronger and I'm building my stamina. I like my trainer, Joe, a lot. He's not very talkative which is just fine by me. I get to really concentrate on myself for about 3 hours a week. No cell, no e mail, no interruptions. I try not to think about work during my sessions and I feel a change in my mind as well as in my body. Maybe this is kind of like yoga? Now I know why people meditate.
Still have lots of wrapping to do. I was up at 5:30 this morning to try to get a jump on the wrapping situation, but only got a couple of gifts completed. I did, however, get everything organized and I went over my list to be sure I had purchased a gift for all those who had been nice. Well, the naughty ones got a little something as well. I'm really hoping for an I Pod, so we'll see if that shows up under the tree for me. I got John Sirius Satellite radio, so he'll be able to listen to Howard Stern's new show. I'm hoping to really surprise him with that.
Not much else going on. Just the usual year end craziness. I'm not taking much time off between Christmas and New Years, but the office is usually quiet so I should be able to concentrate and wrap up the year. Quiet will be nice.
We're in the middle of a nasty ice storm. It started early evening and has continued and gotten much worse. I put The Girls out to do their last pee pee of the night, and poor Campbell got stuck on an ice patch. I couldn't get her to move to come back inside, and I couldn't get down the porch steps as they are covered in ice. I ended up having to get in the truck and drive up to the front, coax her off the ice, then shove her in the truck and drive back to the garage. It's always something with that one....Barrett, on the other hand, went out, peed, and came right back in and hopped into her crate. I always thought she was the dense one. Good motherly instincts on my part. Joe kicked my ass tonight. This was my fifth session with him at the new gym in town. I'm already starting to feel the results, but haven't been able to see them yet. He's a really great motivator, without be all cheerleader-ish. If that was the case, I'd have to kill him. On Tuesday, we worked upper body, then Joe had me hop on the elliptical machine and go out a full sprint for two minutes. Two minutes didn't sound like a long time, but about 20 seconds into it, I realized I hadn't run in about 5 years. Well, I was huffing and puffing, but I completed my two minutes (and at a mighty nice clip, I might add). Tonight, though, I hopped on for just a minute to get my heart rate up and had a little pop in the surgically repaired left knee. My sprint came to a screeching halt and there was a mild panic about how badly I had hurt myself. Luckily, the sharp shooting pains passed, and I went about my work out. I did, however, whip the cryo packs out of the freezer and wrap my knee up when I got home. The swelling is looking better. We set the tree up tonight. Having it standing up in the kitchen was just not doing it for me. John moved it into the living room, and we had a Clark Griswold moment when we cut the netting from the tree. Thankfully, the branches didn't blow out any windows, but I've got one fat tree in my living room. I plan on decorating tomorrow evening. Hopefully John will be finished with this ice storm and will participate in trimming the tree. I'm not holding my breath, but one can always hope! I need to finish up some work then it's off to bed. Here's hoping the roads are clear in the morning!
