Monthly Archives: December 2009

Happy New Year

Some friends from work invited me to their apartment for a New Year’s party tonight. It is going to be about a dozen friends – nothing big or fancy. Everyone is bringing a covered dish and their own booze or drink of choice. That actually sounds good – perfect for ending 2009 and starting 2010 [...]

Low on Christmas Spirit

It took a lot of effort to get the Christmas tree up this year. For a while I seriously considered not doing it at all. But even if no one comes to visit and see my tree, at lest I will have it up for a couple of weeks to admire it myself. I have [...]

Shopping

Only have to buy a few presents, but I’ve had to put off shopping until I got paid the second paycheck of the month. the first paycheck always goes to rent and the utilities. The second paycheck buys the groceries and anything extra. So I have a little from this check to spend on gifts [...]