Road Trip

On Thursday, the hubster and I will be driving for nine (9!) hours.  Yes, I tried to talk him into flying.  Yes, I lost.  So, I'm making the best of it.  And by making the best of it, I mean that I am organizing everything in hopes that we get off to a fabulous start.

1. I've arranged everything that we're taking with us in one area of the house to allow for easy loading of car. (I've even laid out my driving outfit.  This is nothing fancy, it's just the comfy yet cute attire I'll wear for a ridiculously long drive and yet is still appropriate for a family gathering.  AKA: sweater tunic and leggings with flats)
2. I fell asleep last night while mentally arranging where in the car everything will go.  MODG, think tablescaping.  (With an evening arrival at the family home, our bags of gifts will be strategically placed for fast and easy removal upon pulling into the driveway.)
3. My fabulous friend sent me some books on tape (well, books on cd actually, but books on tape sounds better) so we'll have some entertainment besides me singing along to holiday music. This is mostly for the sanity of my hubby.
4. I have set an alarm for 6am on Thursday morning, so I can get up, load car, and get pretty while hubster sleeps.
5. I'm going to drive for the first half of the trip, so that hubby may continue to sleep in passenger seat.
6. I've created a "House-Sitting at Casa de Hart" list for my lovely sister, who will be watching the fur babies while we're gone.  (It warns her about the doggies knocking over the Christmas tree and potentially chewing television remotes.  Isn't she lucky?)

xoxo

Merry, Merry

Darlings, I love the holidays.  LOVE THEM. A lot.

I watch cheesy Christmas movies - no matter if I've seen them a hundred times already. 
I make hot cocoa and add big puffy marshmallows.
I listen to Christmas music from pre-Thanksgiving until New Year's.
I wrap packages in matching paper and ribbon. With embellishments. While watching movies and drinking cocoa.
I am actually excited about our 9 hour road trip to SoCal to visit family.

Hooray - Merry Christmas to you all!

xoxo

Song of the Day: Silver Bells by Bing Crosby

I am sooooo stylish

I may or may not be wearing a maternity shirt today.  And by "may or may not be", I mean I am.  Now, you might all immediately get really excited and assume that because I'm wearing preggo-wear that I am actually preggo.  I'm not.  I just really liked this shirt.

xoxo

Song of the Day: Take Your Shirt Off by T Pain

Dirty

Saw this lovely establishment the other day:

I think this is where you take things with spooge on them.  Ew.

(really? who names these places?)

xoxo

Song of the Day: Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson

Nom Nom Nom

It's reallllly chilly today here in San Francisco.  As in, there was frost on our windshield this morning.  Yeah, yeah - I know you folks who live in cold places are like, "What are YOU complaining about? It snowed 8 inches... blah blah blah".

Guess what? I don't care about your 8 inches of snow or how badass you are for living somewhere subzero.  Why did we spend a sh*t ton of money to live in SF? For the temperate weather.  (And the awesomeness.)  It's not supposed to be 35* in San Francisco.  So, I'm allowed to bitch a bit about it when it is.

Anyway, that's totally not my point.

My point is this: when it's cold outside, I like to eat.  (Forget the fact that I pretty much just like to eat and just go with it, okay?)

Today for lunch, I dashed downstairs and grabbed a delish sourdough breadbowl filled with clam chowder.  YUM.  Now, I don't know if you're supposed to eat the breadbowl itself once you've finished the chowder... but I am.  And it's GOOD.

nom nom nom

xoxo

Song of the Day: Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen

Proactivity

Darlings, I am lucky enough to work at a fabulous firm with mostly fabulous people.

There is one glaring exception.  I'll call this person "Dumbo".
Dumbo is someone that drives me slightly insane with almost everything she does. 
Dumbo is muti-tasking challenged. 
Dumbo is common sense challenged.
Dumbo is, well, maybe just challenged.

Case in point: just now Dumbo decided to be proactive and clean the white board in her boss's office.  She spent seven minutes wiping and cleaning.  (Yes, seven. I timed it.) 

Ready for the best part?
Wait for it...

The white board was BLANK to begin with.

xoxo

Song of the Day: Let's Get Retarded by Black Eyed Peas