last night i made a tofurky for dinner.



we also had some veggies that were roasted with the fake bird, string beans almondine, and cranberry potato dumplings. cara brought the most beautiful homemade apple cranberry pie. i wish i had a picture, it was so perfect. it looked like this.


(photo credit: Chara Michele www.charamichele.com/blog)

but better.

we also broke in the wedding crystal. finally. i figured i might as well make use of it. i'm going to start using the china, too. but only with really lowbrow food. like maybe corn dogs and tuna noodle casserole. because that's funny?

it's extra quiet at work today; i think there are only five or six of us here. i'm excited for another long weekend, but totally dreading the post-new year's realization that i don't have a day off for a long time. i have a couple vacation ideas in the works, but nothing solidified. texas? germany? hawaii? what?

apartment 2.0

at 2:30am last night i impulsively purchased a multitude of random things for my home. upon waking this morning, it instantly hit me and i waited for that feeling of regret to wash over me, as it so often does when i buy things on the internet in the middle of the night. alas, it never came; i am excited about all of my purchases, but most excited for these:


i purchased two, which will serve as bedside lighting. i also bought bedside tables:


in robin's egg blue, which i am just so fond of. (scott pointed out that maybe i should lay off the tiffany blue, since our bathrooms are painted that color, as well as that large cabinet... and our dinnerware... i can't help myself.)

i finally, finally bit the bullet and bought an office chair. it's not ugly, unlike almost every other office chair. why is that? why do they have to be so ugly? anyway, this one is cute and is going to last forever. and it didn't cost $2,000, like the other chair i was considering.


i also ordered things for the walls, which is a huge step for me, considering i've been unable to find anything i love in the year i've been looking. i'm not sure if i love what i bought, but i think i'm going to like them a lot. we'll see.

scott is going to kill me when he sees what i bought last week.