Get a snack. This is a long one.

Monday

Had a pretty productive day off…

MONDAY DID
* Slept straight through til 8am, lovely, then read on the sofa for 2 hours
* Shoot two outfits for this week, done, shot THREE
* Make shopping list to make chocolate bark for work holiday gifts, DONE
* Market, nope, go to Trader Joe’s after work Tuesday
* Get two little trees for pots outside, didn’t have them at local nursery, will look at Home Depot tomorrow (never did find what I wanted at an agreeable price point, and in the end, I’m just going to put the lights on the dead mums, ha ha. It’ll still look pretty at night)
* Got Christmas decorations out of the scary closet, will iron ribbons tomorrow night
* Find passport paperwork, make appt for next week (I think it’s in car)
* Call student loan co, DONE
* Check checking account to make sure all returns have been refunded – didn’t get to this
* Edit blog pictures for Tuesday post, done
* Write Tuesday blog post, done
* Assess Christmas gift lists, my list of gifts left to buy/make is very short
* Cooked chicken for the week, done

A squirrel (you can just make out his floofy tail here) has chewed the lid off the pumpkin sitting on the patio table and is having a lovely holiday treat for himself.

I stopped in at a thrift store on my way to the nursery and didn’t buy these boots.

No regrets.

Tuesday

This is my “must follow” Instagram recommendation. @this_girl_is_a_squirrel. She is the cutest sweetest funnest funniest little creature.

When it’s sunny at work in the mornings, the sun reflects off the schoolbus windshields onto our office wall. And depending what is between the bus and us…we get some interesting shadows. This was Katie’s (not my Katie) bun and some stars on the office front window.

Wednesday

It’s Secret Santa week at work and my received gifty of the day was a rainbow cookie chocolate mousse bombe, WHOA. I’m still working my way through it, a bite or two a day.

Blogger Grace Atwood‘s cat looks like someone I used to work with.

Thursday

Dusk.

Friday

Last workday before break is full of partying, gifting, food-giving and envelope stuffing.

Saturday

That Miracle of Miracles…finishing your shampoo and conditioner on the same day. And squeezing out the last dribble of baby oil makes it a perfect trifecta.

It’s the small things.

We drove into the city in the afternoon to look at lights, eat yummies, and soak up some Christmastime ambience. It can be hard in the city to find a quick parking spot when you see something good, so these sunset shots aren’t great, but it was a beautiful evening and at least we caught a bit of it.

Some happy little barricades.

We went to The Oculus. “The Greenwich Street entrance to the new transit hub at the rebuilt World Trade Center site in downtown Manhattan. Designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, the “Oculus” is a train station, plaza and shopping mall adjacent to the memorial site for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. “Sunday Morning” asked photographer Daniel Jones to capture the new site, the exterior of which has been likened to a dove with clipped wings.” * You liken it to a dove…I’ll liken it to…uhm…something else.

I feel sure someone must have gotten in trouble for this.

We somehow had two dinners. With stops for coffee, tea and snacks in-between. .

Sunday

Preparing to go to dinner.

She’s so pretty

Look at our fancy food presentation! Impressive!

WAKE UP!!

I feel like lately, Week in Review has just been “Tuesday I wore a hat, Wednesday I washed my hair, Thursday I had a tuna sandwich for dinner, etc.,” so hopefully this one was a little more interesting.

Didn’t finish my book. Barely turned the tv on all week. Next week is VACATION so there’ll be plenty of time for rest and relaxation. Hopefully nothing comes up – like it usually does – and disturbs my beak.