These are pictures of our youth group's Christmas party - it was great fun...except my two "youts" were not here. :(

Hopefully looking at these pictures will bring Daniel joy, even though he is far from home.

Beating the blahs

Well, yesterday was a hard day for me...our minister recently left (on good terms, but looking for new challenges), the weather was gloomy, my children will not be home for Christmas, and I had too much work to do.

I managed to do a little bit of work, decorated the tree (by myself), finished knitting two caps, went to a very short meeting last night (only 1 hour - yay!), and actually transcribed the minutes last night after the meeting. Even watched half of Survivor Guatemala (which is almost over, and I haven't been following because of my excessive Thursday night meetings). While I was gone, Ken took Roger shopping and put up Christmas lights outside on both houses.

Slept 7 hours with my "machine" last night, and woke up this morning with a totally different attitude. Don't know if it's the machine or the Christmas spirit finally kicking in. Walked with Grandma for 45 minutes today, and just went grocery shopping. I'm planning to make cookies later (chocolate chip and sugar cookies - with icing yet) for a funeral tomorrow, and for a Christmas party at church tomorrow evening.

Also need to do laundry...maybe lower the price of the rolltop (it's down to $100 now - still no interest whatsoever from Craigslist customers).

Hope your day is going as well!

desk dilemmas - anyone want a rolltop?

Wow, it's been almost a month since I posted...I'll be surprised if anyone ever reads this, but maybe you'll have some suggestions.

I work from home, transcribing minutes from various city boards/commissions/councils. So I need a good workspace to feel motivated to work and not play. I had a great desk, with side return and a hutch. For some reason I was enamored with the idea of having a rolltop desk. So I bought one, and practically gave away my great desk. Discovered almost immediately that the rolltop was too small. Dealt with it for a while, finally asked my hubby if I could look for something more appropriate. Found another great desk, he bought it for me, brought it home, set it up - it's huge! And heavy! I guess I'll deal with it, but somehow it doesn't have the same amount of space as the rolltop and now I'm bogged down trying to fit everything in a workable way. Blah! Not what I wanted to deal with - especially considering I still have to sell the rolltop now.

I guess the moral is - be grateful for what you have. Back to work now.