The Important Minute Details In Life.

I would love to show the picture I took today, but Tumblr is in the middle of a tizzy and won't upload or post anything, so...grr.

My day was both lazy and very accomplished. I cleaned up the bedroom and the living room of Christmas scraps, put the presents in their new homes, did every dirty dish in the house, washed all the new clothes, and took out the garbage. I also made a new Excel money document for 2011, all nice and neat and ready to go.

Ryan and I went grocery shopping when we got home. We left with a small list: dish soap, giant binder clips (for my novel), travel packs of tissues, granola bars, and a 12-pack of Brisk. We first went to Target so we could also return some small items, then made the mistake of going to the movie section, where we not only found Beauty & The Beast but the Fantasia pair of movies...all on Blue Ray, all on sale. Ker-snag. After striking out in the office supplies, we made the second mistake of going to the cooking section, and walked away from there with a knife block, electronic food scale, and silicone spatula. Got the dish soap and tissues and other small items, checked out...

...and went straight to Meijer with the remaining three items on the list: giant binder clips, flour sifter (they didn't have any at Target?!), and Brisk. We left with Brisk.

We have spent most of the day and night debating on colors for a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, which we've decided will be the bulk of our Christmas-money present to ourselves. Ryan has been wanting one for months now, more and more as he gets deeper into his cooking hobby, and he keeps running into the problem of No Stand Mixer when looking at recipes to play with. At the moment we're torn between a lovely orange (Persimmon!) and a beautiful blue (Blue Willow! Ryan says it sounds like a ninja assassin!), with stray thoughts toward a very retro green apple and a gorgeous purple (Boysenberry!). Even the roommates are torn on it.

We finally came to desperate measures.
Sameh: Horace, do you like the blue?
Horace, in Ryan's arms: [silence]
Sameh: Horace, do you like the orange?
Horace: Meow!
Ruth: Oh-ho-ho! We have our answer!
BJ: Horace, do you care at all?
Horace: ...[wriggles his way out of Ryan's arms]

Sooo yeah. That's where we are now.

Tomorrow is back to work until New Year's Eve, then I have that day AND New Year's Day off, which will be very nice. :)

And, since Tumblr has decided to be nice while I wrote this up, here is my picture of the day Christmas cookie!

Good night :)