Ring Ring Ring...Banana Phone!

This weekend was a good weekend. Very productive. We put up our Christmas tree...which happens to be the biggest tree we've had yet. I like to call it the 'wintergreen' tree...since we only put white and green lights on it. But Chris said he didn't want to put blue and white up, (my favorite)...because he was tired of telling people we weren't Jewish...though..Jews don't usually put up Christmas trees. Anyway, besides that...I did some Christmas shopping, laundry, put away misc. junk that has just been lying around the house, cleaned up for the party this coming weekend (even though the cleaning lady comes tomorrow), and did a bunch of other stuff.

Today I got a new comforter for our bedroom. It's red and some other colors, but I quite like it. Oh, today we also found a new entertainment center for the living room. We want one that fits a 30 in. widescreen, and we actually found one that goes with our living room furniture collection. So, we'll probably pick it up after the Holiday's.

I still need to wrap presents (before this weekend..because my sister is coming to visit) and I have most of her and her boyfriends presents in the guest room. And, I need to pick up junk around the kitchen (not that there's much) and also I want to organize the cabinets in the master bathroom because they're kinda getting unorganized, and I hate that!

I think I'm pretty ready for the Christmas party this weekend. I've got a menu, and a grocery list. Decorations are up, and Christmas music is qued up, and people have been invited. It should be a great mix. This week I have a ton to do, shopping and cooking and such. It will be a crazy week though. I have 2 doctors appointments on 2 different days, errands to run, misc junk to do, plus a ton of meetings at work and on Wednesday, we're having a Holiday lunch that *I* am in charge of organizing and I've also got to wrap up the campaign for the 2 families my department adopted for Christmas. We had a Chili Cookoff last week and raised $266. That's pretty good considering I work in a secured department, and we didn't have a lot of traffic. We're having an ongoing raffle that ends on Wednesday and from that we've already raised $180. I'm really hoping by the end of the week, we'll have a total of at least $600. We still have the raffle and a bake sale to go. Oh, and there's a huge deadline (that we missed) on a project that's super important at work. This week should be excellent fun!

Today while I was at Target, I found a card on a shelf with some writing on it. I opened it up and it was a birthday card to 'Debbie' and it had $20 in it. I turned it into the customer service desk, but I didn't hear them make a store announcement for 'Debbie'. I kinda feel bad because I don't think Debbie got her money back. I hope that Target at least would donate the unclaimed money to some charity for Christmas. *shrug*

We ate at a really good new Mexican place tonight. It was called La Carrera and it's in Plaza 94 in St. Charles. It was really yummy and the prices were good. If you live in St. Charles, you should check it out.

Well, that's about it for now. I'm not going to say I'll try and update this week, because honestly I just don't think I'll have time. But, if I do have time..I'll update.