When emailing someone outside your organization who is a relative stranger to you, I personally don't think it's very professional to use the greeting “Hey girl” …. or the closing “thanks bunches.”
Just saying.
Window into the Past
Remember when I told y'all I joined facebook? Well, as tends to happen, I've reconnected with a few people from my past lives: a couple from college and one from high school.
Last night, the friend from high school and I had coffee. We hadn't seen each other in nearly 10 years! That just makes me feel old … to think that there are (plenty of) people who I used to know that I haven't seen in 10 years. Mon dieu!
Where was I going with this? Oh yea … well we met at Starbucks and chatted for over an hour. He was similar to how I remembered him, but, of course, more mature/adult/whatever. I guess 10 years does that to you. He'd kept up with just about as many people as I had (a handful or less), but it was interesting to hear what some of my ex-compadres were doing with their lives. A high school reunion interests me about as much as it ever did (i.e. practically 0), but it's been nice to look back on the past a bit and I wouldn't mind doing it some more.
“All your past experiences add up together, bit by bit, to make you the person you are.”
Update
I bet you all thought I was abandoning you for real this time. Nope, I've just been away. We had our third-annual crazy cookie weekend in Vail. We left Friday afternoon and got back last night. Loads of snow. Even more cookies. Three babies. Six episodes of Ugly Betty watched. Hot buttered rum. Fun times with great people. And one amazing ski day.
We had originally planned on coming back on Sunday, but after the amazing amounts of snow that the mountains have been receiving over the past week or so, we decided to take Monday as a ski day and I'm so very glad we did. I got to ski with my dad and my hubby and my mom was sweet enough to spend the day with Ms. Tabby (I think both of them had a great time). The weather was clear and sunny. The snow was beautiful and it was hands down one of the best days of skiing I can recall.
The house is a mess. We have no food. We have no clean clothes. And I could not care less. 
Loads of photos here.
All I Want for Christmas …
Emma posted about what she wants for Christmas and the post was so excellent, I decided to steal the idea and tell you about my Christmas list.
* a few boxes of Celestial Seasonings English Toffee Tea … cuz I love the stuff, I'm almost out and I can't find any ANYWHERE
* a little snow, but not too much
* a charging station cuz my nightstand area is a big ol' mess (like this one)
* pretty much any of the jewelry that Sundance sells
* someone to figure out how to use voice-activated dialing on my phone and then show me, cuz I don't have any more time to rifle through the crappy crappy manual
* gift certificates to Ann Taylor Loft
* ditto Old Navy
* a few naps … is that so much to ask?
* our house on the market (with minimal effort from me)
* to figure out a great gift for Matt that he isn't expecting that doesn't cost like $800 … cuz he screwed up the one idea I had
* for the shopping to get finished and be wrapped while I'm like … sleeping or something
* a macro lens for my (our) camera
* a couple new (and cute) travel mugs cuz black & silver ones I have are boring me to death
9 Months
Today marks 9 months of smiles, gurgles, coos and other baby sweetnesses. Where has the time gone??! I'm amazed that she's been in this big world as long as I was pregnant with her. Every day is such a fun adventure and I can really say that I'm enjoying each day a whole lot. She seems to come up with something new every day. She's got three words down-pat: hi (which is more of an “iiiii” or “haaaaa”) and mama and dada (which she uses interchangeably). She absolutely melts my heart when she puts her arms up for us to pick her up or when she gives us the super-sized grin when we walk in the room or when she snuggles into us when she's extra tired.
As far as milestones go, she's been cruising right along. She likes to pull herself up and can go from a forward bend to standing all on her own and she's finally showing a bit of interest in crawling, getting up on all fours and rocking around a bit. She loves to clap when happy and wave hi and bye to everyone. She's eating pretty much everything we eat and has found very little she doesn't like. Noodles seem to be her tip-top favorite at the moment and she loves to shove them in her mouth and slurp them up, which is absolutely hilarious.
Happy 3/4 of a year, Ms. Tabby. Your mommy and daddy love you very much!!
Taking a Break
Kerflop has initiated a blogging break in December, and I'm thinking I'll join in, especially since it's already 4:30 and I'll I've done to day is:
1. run for 20 min
2. take a nap
3. eat lunch
4. take a nap
5. chat with a friend
6. do 2 loads of laundry
I will probably be posting as I feel like it when something comes up. Sadly, I have like two or three things to post, but I just can't get it quite together … Tabby is busy and I'm tired and a bit sick. Happy December y'all.
Small Triumphs
* Tabby seems to be feeling much better (though her sleep patterns are still a bit off)
* I made it through the week
* there's no snow on the ground (and none in the forecast)
* Christmas shopping is approximately 60% complete
* my house will be clean (not just uncluttered) when I get home
* I actually got the Christmas template/skin/whatever for Jesser up before December
* I get to sleep in a bit tomorrow
* I ran 2.25 miles this AM, a new high for me since … ? high school or something?
* I have a cup of tea to warm my hands
* there's a new ep of Project Runway on my Tivo
* Did I mention it's Friday?
Christmas Music
I know loads of people who think it's too early to break out the Christmas music, but I'm not one of them. I start the day after Thanksgiving so I can hear all my favorites lots of times.
On my Christmas Playlist:
* Elf's Lament as sung by BNL
* I Saw Three Ships as sung by Sting
* Holly Jolly Christmas as sung by Alan Jackson
* Sleigh Ride as sung by Harry Conick Jr
* Santa Baby as sung by Ertha Kitt
* Carol of the Bells from Home Alone
* Children Go Where I Send Thee as sung by Natalie Merchant
* Christmas Song as sung by Dave Matthews
* melikalikimaka as sung by Bing Crosby
* God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen as sung by Garth Brooks
* All I Want for Christmas as sung by ANYONE BUT Mariah Carey (cuz that girl has not learned that making 2 syllable words into 50 syllable words is soooo over)
* ANYTHING on A Christmas Together (John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Album)
* Little Saint Nick as sung by The Beach Boys
And I'm sure many more that I'm not thinking of at the moment. What do you guys have on your Christmas playlists??
Protected: My Not-so-Fat Ass
Some Days it Just Doesn't Pay
I've had kind of a crappy morning. Well actually, it probably started last night. Tabby is having trouble sleeping due to her cold, so as a result, neither Matt nor I is sleeping too well. Matt also had to work through the wee hours of the night on some upgrade thingy and so Tabby and I were on our own … up down up down. Blah. I was up for good at 4:20 AM which is when the next problem started.
Snow. Snow snow snow. The white menace. It snowed a paltry inch (maybe less) between 4:30 AM and 6 ish, when I left for work, but it sure left its mark on our fair city in the form of a nasty layer of ice topped with snow. And it turned my 20-30 min commute into a 2.5 hour one. To be fair, at some point, I turned around and tried to get home, but since my way was blocked, I decided to just push on to work. Really, if I had known what lay ahead of me when I left this AM, I just wouldn't have bothered.
I will be taking a half day to make up for the two hours I missed this AM and getting a jump for the commute home (and a nap if I can manage it).