Onward to 2007!

Christmas has passed and many of us are either back at work or enjoying some time off between the holidays. Hopefully everyone had a very merry day! It turned out to be a really nice day yesterday even though it was my first Christmas without any family around me. I spent the holiday in Miami with Stuart and his family. I even made Christmas breakfast for everyone before we opened gifts. I got so many wonderful presents this year. I am calling it a Victoria's Secret Christmas because so many of my gifts came from there (nothing racy! pj's, perfume, bath sets, etc.) I even won a gift card from there at our work gift exchange last week! My favorite gift was from Stu though and it came in a little blue box! I loved it so much I want to share it with all of you.....it even has a bit of bling!

Yesterday afternoon we went to Stu's cousin's house and I had my first Jamaican Christmas. There was lots of family and food (curried goat & a whole pig), many pomegranite martini's, and chocolate fondue for dessert.....YUM! After we stuffed ourselves, we faced the long drive back to Fort Myers in the rain. Thankfully it didn't rain the whole drive home but enough to slow us down a bit. We made pretty good time and opened our last round of gifts (thanks mom & Abbie!) after we unpacked the car. After a phone call home to mom, we called it a night and fell asleep with visions of sugar plums (and curried goat!). The house is now a disaster with presents everywhere so my mission tonight is to get it back in order.

I'm back at work today, happy that it is a short week! To those of you who have the week off, enjoy! I'm very jealous! Have a safe and wonderful New Year & don't forget to cheer for my Trojans next Monday!

Cheers & happy '07!

6 more days!

The countdown begins! Christmas is in 6 days....have you finished your shopping? I'm digging the online shopping this year. So easy and way better than fighting crowds at the busy malls. We did have to buy gifts for Stuart's family but we got lucky and didn't hit too much mall traffic. My dining room has turned into Santa's workshop with all the presents, wrapping paper, ribbons, and other assorted items. I'm going into present-wrapping anxiety! I meant to wrap gifts last night but got caught up in watching the 5th season of 24. It was my Hannukah gift! We are celebrating both this year, thanks to the menorah that mom bought me last year. It's actually been kind of neat, especially since this is Stu's first Hannukah. He even recited the blessing over the candles last night. I think he especially likes the presents for 8 days in a row! I'm even going to make potato latkes one night this week. I'm really getting into Hannukah this year!

I've turned into the cookie monster this year. I've never been a big sweets fan but for some reason I cannot resist the cookies this year. For the past week we've been bombarded at work with cookies and then Catherine sent me some of her home made cookies which I devoured on the spot. One of my co-workers has the same weakness, even hiding cookies in his deks so other people won't eat them!

My cards went out in the mail so be on the lookout as you should be getting yours any day now. I love all the photo cards people are sending out, it's so fun to see everyone and how fast their little ones are growing! I still can't believe it's the end of 2006, what a crazy year! Here's to many more great memories in 2007!

Cheers,
Sasha

Tis' the Season!

Wow! It's December already......Monday was my 1 year anniversary here in Fort Myers. It went by so fast; I can hardly believe it's been a year since I moved here. Who's done with their Christmas shopping? Mylene I'm sure! I actually did a lot of my shopping online the day after Thanksgiving (while @ work!) and found some good "cyber sales"!

Since I'm staying here for the holidays, I bought everything online and just had it shipped to everyone. Much easier than last year! Now I just need to do my Christmas cards. I even put out my holiday decorations. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We had our annual company holiday party this past Saturday. It was a fun evening, kicked off by a pre-party at my place. decided at the last minute to have a pre-party and almost went mad trying to clean, buy food/beverages AND get my hair and nails done for the party. It all ended up going smoothly though and everyone had a great time. So great we were all late to the party! The only bad part of the evening was USC losing to UCLA! There goes my trip to Arizona in January.

It actually works out for the better since I'm trying to save my vacation days for Abbie's wedding in Hawaii & Stuart's brother's wedding in Jamaica next year. Busy first half of the year travelling!

Hope all is well with everyone and that you're having a great December so far!

Cheers!