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Visiting the neighbors

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Our neighbors had a small birthday party for their little girl yesterday. We were invited to the party so we went over for a few hours in the afternoon.

We end up having a really nice time. We don’t socialize all that much with these particular neighbors. They’re in the house that’s attached to ours- so we hear them all the time … but we don’t talk to them all that much.

We got along really well though so I think we’ll be getting together more often. Oh and when we were leaving our neighbor – Carol, gave us the sweetest thank you cards for attending the party. So nice.

Do you socialize with your neighbors?

I’m so full!

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I’m so full! We had an early Christmas dinner this evening and I’m still full!

I don’t even think I ate that much, but I’m stuffed!

I made a turkey last night , Thursday December 23rd, yes a little early, but we’re going to the in-laws for Christmas and I like to have our own Christmas dinner too … so we had ours early .. so I guess tonight’s dinner was the second dinner .. All I had tonight was a little bit of stuffing, some turkey, some sweet potatoes and cranberry jelly and that’s it. No big helpings – just a little bit of each.

Perhaps I should put on my coat and take a long walk around the neighborhood and then I’ll feel a little less full.

Tomorrow when we go to the in-laws I’ll get to see how they decorated this year at the church across the street. My mother in law said something about how she used cypress trees as part of their decoration. It should be interesting to see how they decorated.

What are you doing for Christmas or the holidays? Any big plans?

My husbands favorite dinner – lately

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This evening we’re having what’s quickly becoming one of my husband’s favorite dinners. It’s pretty easy to make too.

We’re having a mix of long grain and wild rice, peas and chicken. I tend to eat these three food items separately but my husband likes to cut up his chicken and then he mixes the peas, rice and chicken together and he swears that it tastes like chicken fried rice. I’ve tasted his mix and it’s true – it does tasted like chicken fried rice … maybe I should mix mine up too.

This evening I think I’m going to pull out one of the desserts that I made two weeks ago – Zucchinni bread – perhaps cut some up and put it in the center of the table on a glass tile and we’ll have it for dessert after dinner. Yum.

Speaking of dinner … it’s after 8 pm … I’d better get cooking!

No party for us tonight

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My husband and I were supposed to go out of town for a party this evening but we decided to stay home instead.

I thought we were going to go to the party and that the only thing that would keep us from going would be the weather, but the long drive back and forth was a big deterrent too. It would have been close to two hours each way!

Also … we can’t bring our dog to our friends house because she hates dogs, so our Lab would have had to stay home on her own … and if the weather turned while we were going our dog might even end up being on her own over night. Not really a good situation.

So instead of going out to a party we’re staying home and having a great dinner. Our dog also had a nice long walk a little while ago. While we were out walking her we ran into one of our neighbors and talked to him for a while. He’s been trying to help my husband get a job with our city bus company. the man was smoking what I think was one of those monte cristo cigars. He told us he’d received the cigar as a Christmas gift from a friend at work and offered another to my husband … but we both just quit smoking so he passed on that!

I had wanted to go to the party this evening … but we’ll see our friend next weekend at Christmas. The long drive was just too much.

Just a little bit more Christmas shopping to do

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I’m planning to go shopping this weekend for the last of the Christmas gifts that I need to buy.

I didn’t buy too many gifts this year. We don’t have any extra money, but of course we still have to get a few gifts for the kids in the family at least. I was thinking that one of my nephews might like an iPod. I already checked and he doesn’t have one yet, so it would be the perfect gift. I spent some time earlier today reading an ipod shuffle review and I’m pretty sure that I’ll get him an iPod Shuffle.

Now that I think of it the iPod and maybe just a few DVD’s or Video games and I should be finished all my shopping. If I’m lucky perhaps my shopping trip this weekend will only take an hour or so.

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