Lumpy

 I've been opening the gym for VB and helping them get set up since I can't play. I'm hoping it'll become self sufficient at some point, but right now it definitely is not. Rog is playing basketball and I finally got my cast off so I can do SOMETHING. (Although since they wanted me in a cast for another 4 weeks, the tradeoff is my weight restriction is 3 lbs.) But it was worth it to be able to move it sometimes and take a real shower. 

Work is settling down a bit, but I did convince my higher ups to pay me for all the extra training I've been doing to get our PTA up and running. So I have a nice bonus in the works. And we are going to have our annual cookie contest at work, so I made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies since I haven't made those yet this year. Roger also made some delicious chocolate chip cookies this week, so we are feeling especially lumpy. 

I finally had some time to film some more YT videos for my latest study guide set. (Now to editing...) And while I was running errands, discovered the wonders of World Market. I was there on a Christmas errand, but took a quick peak around and came home with a few extra things - including the now rare Virgil's black cherry soda that we love, and a refreshing mint lemonade a la France, that Roger loved and requested over other soda or sparkling cider. And everything was surprisingly affordable. 

Tis the season. (These are now hung on an antler.)

While Rog was helping our neighbor collect wood from a secret spot, I finally painted the ornaments we meant to do over Kelly's birthday weekend. I was kinda sad the table wasn't bigger, but I also needed to shower so Kelly could do my hair because I could not at the time. 

We also had the sister missionaries over for dinner. They are both super trunky and have an unfortunate list of allergies. So that was an interesting challenge, but we managed to make it work with an adjusted stew. And Roger ended up not being there since the hunt he was helping on still had yet to tag out. But he showed up just at the end. 

round 1

Friday night was our ward Christmas party - which always does all the sports people dirty by setting up a day early and not checking the ward calendar other than at the time they want to set up. So a few groups were salty. They also go wayyy overboard. It's probably a good thing I'm not on that committee, because it's not worth it to me. Anyways, so we chatted with our landlords for a bit and ate some pulled pork. And this was after pre-gaming with a Christmas party by a group that Rog's plumbing company works for. And there were some bomb fajitas there. We were glad to attend both.