Today is my team’s holiday party.  We’re going roller skating (so excited!) and then out to Mexican Food afterwards.  We have a tradition of a White Elephant exchange and it gets pretty brutal.  In our White Elephant exchange you open your gift as you get it and then subsequent people have the option to steal your gift or get a new one.  But they know what they are stealing.  It’s fun!  I normally get burned and get a horrible gift and so I’ve learned from this.  I no longer give nice gifts-one year I knit coffee cup cozies and went home with a fake leather case for a Palm Pilot (I didn’t own a Palm Pilot nor is fake leather high on my list of wants). So now I give atrocious (but fun!) gifts so that whatever I end up with, I don’t end up feeling bummed. This year’s gem?

HA!  I love that it’s “Snuggie-Wild Side!”  And seriously? With how cold I’ve been in my house lately, if I end up with this, I would totally use it!  I’m secretly hoping that there will be a Clapper (Clap On!  Clap Off! The Clapper!) because I really want one of those.  All I need to do now is wrap it up-making it look really pretty and enticing.

I think this one may beat the year that I re-gifted a gold plated “hand painted collectible” Tiger Plate (you know-from the commercials in the 80s) that we got at a family gathering one year.  Yes! Someone actually took that off their wall, had the original box and gave it to us as an “heirloom”. My Mother-in-Law assured me that they just wanted to get rid of it and it was okay for me to throw it away.  I re-gifted instead.  I do think that the leopard print Snuggie beats that gift 😉

Today is my rest day and I got to “sleep in” until 6:30. Tuesday nights I stay up “late” watching So You Think You Can Dance (the best show EVER!) and so I use Wednesdays as my sleeping in days.  Too bad I went to sleep an hour later so I still ended up with 7 hours of sleep.  So, I’m happily drinking this:

It is, quite literally, bringing me joy!

Something else that brings me joy (bet you can guess where this is going) is Lu!  She looked SO grown up today.  I no longer have a baby-it’s official.

She no longer crawls 🙁 BUT! Since she started walking exclusively, she’s been sleeping for well over 12 hours! We have to go wake her up in the morning now so that we can get to work on time.  She’s so cool.  This one is blurry but I love it:

Alright, off to get some work done before the party.  Remember you have until noon today to enter the giveaway.  I’ll be back after my party to announce the winner (probably around 4 or 5 PST).