The festivities are just begining

After a super relaxing Christmas, we are gearing up for super big festivities and new starts this next week. My brother and his family are coming over for dinner and a belated Christmas celebration tonight. Tomorrow my mom and step-dad are driving in from Seattle to spend the next four of five days with us. I am outrageously excited about this. And.......next wednesday is the first day of my new job. Yes that's right, no more coffeehouse job for me. I am moving on, and darned happy about it, for so many reasons.

This whole job thing - making the decision to find a new one and then actually doing it, has mainly been to blame for the turmoil of my last few posts. And rather than go on and on about what and why, let me just say that I am so glad I made the decision to change jobs. What I am going into is definatly more along the "career" path than my coffee shop job, and right now, Brant and I really need that.

Enough with the boring stuff, lets talk about what is fabulous today:

• Eggnog in coffee. I have singlhandedly drunk at least a gallon of the stuff, and I still want more. Ooohhh, make a eggnog au lait (1/2 nog and 1/2 coffee) and tell me you aren't in love!
• People who put so many Christmas lights up, they have to get the power company to install an additional box.
• My dogs playing in the snow.

Hope everyone is having a great holiday!!

The snow is falling here. The ground is just warm enough that it wont stick so instead it is coating all non-ground things (tree branches, rocks, flower pot rims) with a thick dusting of white snowy frosting. Kinda makes a winter hatin gal like me soften up a little, it's so pretty.

Our Christmas tree is up too- a funky little red, white and black number. This is going to be the first Christmas since B and I were married that we haven't had family around for the holiday. Every other year we've had some rip roarin plans with either his family or mine, but this year....his parents are in Maui (snif snif), my parents are in Seattle, and our brothers and sisters and nephews are in Eastern Idaho and California. So here we are....in our snowy little Idaho town with our red, white and black Christmas tree, trying to figure out what to do for the holiday. I think I have successfully talked B into running the YMCA Christmas fun run with me. We can do either 2.5 miles or 6.1. I'm thinking the 2.5 since B is fairly new to the running thing and I am fairly out of shape since the marathon. But a run! For Christmas! Makes me pretty happy, especially that B would do it with me.

Anyway, more later. It's too pretty outside to type anymore.