This isn’t a complete excuse for my absence, I know – but I was basically out of service last week.  I was going about my business, leaving work to go to a holiday lunch, and the next thing I knew, I was laying on the ground face down at the bottom of the stairs outside our building.  And, mon dieu, it hurt.  Some very kind man (I’m assuming a fellow employee, but I have no idea who it was… thank you!) helped me up and got me back inside with some paper towels.  I decided I better go home and get some band-aids and called Oak to see if he could come help me – well, I ended up getting some stitches on my lip.  And, my lips were swollen like two balloons last week.  I couldn’t laugh without it hurting, bite into anything (like sandwiches… bite sized food only please!), or talk without sounding weird.  Boo!

So, the first thing I did when I got my stitches out on Saturday was eat a sandwich.  Isn’t it funny how the moment you can’t have something you start craving it like no tomorrow?  It helps there was a serious sale on lunch meat at Harris Teeter last week (50% off! HELLOW!).  So, now my facial features are pretty much back to normal size and color but I have some residual bruising on my knees and hands.   I mostly forget until I do something like put on lotion, and it’s like, hmm, why does this hurt?

On Saturday, I had recovered enough to go on with our cookie party!  We made 4 different varieties of cookies, and we even had a signature cookie-making drink (Thanks Daniela).  As a result, I have consumed way too many cookies.  Ah, tis the season! The crafting of gifts has continued, as well as the shopping for and wrapping of the store-bought gifts. Busy busy busy.  I’m really glad that I had gotten ahead on some of this stuff before I was out of commission!

So, since I have nothing else to discuss and this is an awkward ending to my post,  here is a question : what is your favorite christmas cookie?

Posted by Carrie on Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Categories: blog, life happenings · 1 Comment »