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  1. Boxing Day is lovely, I think. Especially if you don't have to go out in the crowded stores and can just be home and revel in the done-ness of all the Christmas rush. I love Christmas, but I also love the calm of after Christmas. No more cookies to bake. No more presents to wrap... that's good.
  2. Picked the dog up from the kennel this morning. She was one happy pup. She's sound asleep in her chair now. Good to have her home. The kids missed her bunches - especially since we got home on Christmas eve, but couldn't get her until today, since the kennel doesn't do pick-ups on holidays.
  3. Asia totally surprised me with new bee-yoo-tee-ful lamps for Christmas. I've been in desperate need of new lamps, since two of mine have been broken for some time... He bought gorgeous lamps - one from Bombay Company (see it here) and one from my very favorite local furniture store. I'm so happy with them. They're way nicer than anything I would have bought myself.
  4. The extended family Christmas was lovely. My sister-in-law is a consummate hostess and provided the most amazing Christmas dining experience of my life. Seriously. It was just lovely. We had a white elephant gift exchange, lots of food, an X-Box 360 tournament (in which Grandma and Grandpa even played!) a regular gift exchange, stockings, rooms full of sleeping cousins and sixteen people sharing three bathrooms. What a blast!
  5. Spike Television had a Star Trek Voyager marathon recently. Ugh. Our DVR is full of this silly show and Asia is watching it every chance he gets. I never liked this Star Trek series...
  6. I'm really tired of sweets. I want meat and potatoes for dinner tonight.
  7. We rented Shop Girl a few nights ago. Great movie. Just a really well done story - with beautiful cinematography and superb acting. I wanted to watch it over and over again.
  8. I'm pretty much ready for all the Christmas break re-runs to be over. Give me some new shows!!!
  9. I can't decide whether I want a 60 inch round table or a square counter height table when we replace our awful old oak kitchen table. Any suggestions?
  10. Resolutions... can't decide whether I need to make any this year... for sure, I need to organize my household in the coming month, but I don't know if I want to call that a resolution... still thinking on that.

Happy December 26th, friends. Hope you had a memorable Christmas.

Comments

  1. Susie4:08 PM

    Cath. I love, love the round dining room tables. I love that you can see everyone you're talking to without straining your neck. But, I'm a talker.

    And. Those Christmas cards are on my "lift" list for next year. They are too cool indeed!

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  2. michelle_d8:41 PM

    Happy Boxing day to you too! It sounds like you had a lovely Christmas. Very pretty lamps. We need new lamps too.

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  3. Anonymous12:52 AM

    Why not a short square table. I love the square ones! It was soo good to see you! Loved our dinner together...GOOD FOOD and GOOD COMPANY!

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  4. Marie5:58 AM

    again i say tee hee boxing day :)

    i love my round table, but if i had a place to put one, i would get a tall square one.

    i loved shop girl too

    i am having January as 30 days of organization- will have something to do every single day.

    merry christmas :)

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  5. Mindy Buller7:42 AM

    Welcome home, friend!! I got so inspired yesterday that we totally gutted (read: cleaned) the kids rooms and took the tree down in our school room and cleaned and organized that room. It felt soooooo good. I'm with ya' on the sweets. I'm looking forward to going back to counting points, but I figure why bother until after New Years. :-)

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  6. Jenny L.8:55 AM

    Hi Cathy. :) I never likes Star Trek either.
    Love the new lamp.
    And while I LOVE Christmas, I am loving the calm now too. Now I just have to get the house in order.

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  7. Anonymous9:01 AM

    Hey....Let's have some credit here. Not only did I play the
    X-BOX 360 I MADE THE SEMI-FINALS !

    You were right on, Cath, Christmas dinner was a feast to remember !
    Just like right out of the pages of the fanciest magazine you could imagine

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