Picture 27

Although, I didn't throw up again on Day 27, I still felt lousy--first sick day in a LONG time--so I spent much of the day here.

Picture 26

Warning:  This one is going to be a bit gross.

Yep, I went there.  I posted a picture of a toilet.  Day 26 started out normal enough. Work, grocery shopping, baking, then went to a friend's house for dinner.  Right before dinner I felt a little warm and really thirsty.  I didn't think too much of it at first until, well, let's just say it's a good thing I had a napkin close by.  I cleaned myself up, hurried out of there, and proceeded to get sick again and got to spend some "quality time" by the toilet, ugh!, when I got home. Husband had the stomach bug earlier in the week, I guess he shared it.  :-(

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My secret Santa gave me a scarf and this Christmas ornament.

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Didn't have to work on day 24 due to the weather so I watched this--and I'm dorky and enjoy historical stuff and Christmas so I'm sure it's no surprise that I enjoyed this movie.  I learned quite a bit too!

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Went to another fun holiday

party on Day 23.

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I went to a Christmas party and didn't take a single picture there.  WHAT?!  So here is what I brought--my "famous" Christmas wreath.

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Celtics Game

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Festive Nails for two upcoming Christmas parties.

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Cake is all right, but I LOVE cookie cake.  I saw a Groupon for a Mrs. Fields cookie cake a while ago and I bought it.  I told my husband he could use it to buy me a cookie cake for my birthday.  Unfortunately, when he was going to do it, he realized you need to give them 24 hours notice so no cookie cake for me on my birthday.  (I had plenty of other cakes before that so no worries.)  So he surprised me and came home on a random Wednesday in December with my cookie cake.  It was delicious.  I'm embarrassed to tell you how much of it I ate.  It was also delicious for the following week and later on after I froze some of it and then thawed that at a later date to munch on.

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Don't have much to share from today, so here is a pic of our nativity.

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We're doing Secret Santa at work.  You're supposed to do one $5.00 gift a week for three weeks and then on the last week a $10 gift.  Here is what I got for my first gift last week (well, techincally by the time this posts, it'll be more like two weeks).  It's festive!  I wore it to a Christmas party the other day.

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Over the years I've had different light up Christmas decorations out front.  I had Christmas presents for a while, but someone acccidentally ran those over--no, it wasn't me and it wasn't the husband either.  I had a penguin, but that died.  It was cute too.  I had some type of sleigh thing once upon a time too, I can't remember exactly how that looked, but that died too.  So this year I bought a reindeer at Home Depot for $19.99.  Hopefully, it lasts awhile.  I've noticed since then that two other people in my neighborhood have the same decoration.

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Every year my friend Megan and I go to a chocolate buffet.  It is delicious, but thank goodness it is only once a year because it is a bit pricey and we're always SO FULL afterwards.  It probably wasn't totally smart of me to plan a chocolate buffet and a holiday party in the same day, but such is life.  Here are some of the chocolate treats we enjoyed.

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I made this trifle for a small holiday gathering my husband and I were having the next day.  I am pleased to report that it was delicious--and yes, I'm biased, but the attendees enjoyed it too!  I may make it for Christmas Eve.

Pic 13 Hello December!

December sure came quickly!  How did that happen?  And the December calendar is filling up!  I usually bake treats for holiday parties, gifts for co-workers, etc.  This year I got smart and decided that instead of doing it all on one long day, I'd do some of it ahead of time.  So here you can see brownies that will turn into Christmas trees and faceless reindeer cookies.  Perhaps in a future post, you'll see the completed product.

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I bought this a couple of days ago, but I never took a picture of it so here it is.

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I have nothing exciting to post today.  I went to work, then went to a work-related meeting.  So here is my annual picture of my Christmas village.

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I decorated my Christmas tree today.  I love the holidays!

Pic 12 The Last Day of November

Despite the weather, I tend to love November--the days off, Thanksgiving, decorating for the holidays begins, etc.  This November has flown.  I ended the month with a little Christmas shopping.  I went to Kohls and bought a few gifts, then went to the grocery store, then had to go back to Kohls because they never gave me my gift receipts.  Here is one of the gifts I bought.  I just think they are so cute.  Hopefully, the recipient does too.  (If not, I now have gift receipts lol).

And once again, I've fallen way behind in blogging!  Hopefully, I can finish 30 days of pictures in under 60 days...

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My hometown does a holiday stroll the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  I didn't take too many pictures that night, but I did take pictures of the ice sculptures, even though I'm not really a Pokemon fan.  I can still appreciate the hard work that went into making them.

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I went Black Friday shopping with my mom during the day and out for dinner and drinks with friends that night.  I tried some strawberry martini drink.  It was tasty!