Yeah! The season is about to come to an end. I can't believe how quickly these weeks have passed. Our home is decorated and I just have to .....bake the cookies, roll more truffles, buy a gift certificate for a gift and help alot of desperate customers find that perfect gift that we just ran out of yesterday. I have developed horrible sleep patterns this month, it will probably take another month to get used to going to be at a decent time. Too many midnight shifts have destroyed me.

But the good news is that my family has been so supportive and helpful and that has really lessened the stress for me.

So what goodies do I have to finish today?

Cafe Vienna Truffles
Peppermint Truffles
Peanut Butter Truffles

Coffee Almond Cookie
Orange Delights dipped in chocolate Cookies
and finally
Ginger Chocolate Chip Cookies

Thankfully the family will be eating them, and many are for gifts....so my hips, which have lost 8 lbs, won't gain that back plus some.


Off to perform in my kitchen.... have a very Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years!

December 2....23 days to go

Ok. It is agreed that I am quite possible the most irratic blogger around. I just haven't felt much like blogging....my life may be a very very very fine life, but as we enter the holiday season this life is becoming a very very very tired life.

I spend my day at work walking from one end of the store to the other. If I leave my "bag of tricks" , essential to being able to put out all the forest fires that spring up through the store....guess what....I need the bag. Yesterday I was totally exhausted, could barely walk after arriving at work at 6 am...it is now 3 pm and my body says go home, but I can't due to visitors in the store who feel that they need to walk the store during one of the busiest days....I walk from my desk to see an associate that has had a really good day in sales and want to congratulate her...of course I leave that bag on my desk. I get to her register and she has a customer that is so upset that 3 times we have not taken off the ink tag security from her garment. I need to make this right for her but left my "BOT" at the desk...run back across the floor as another manager is hinting that she has two customer carryouts and has also pulled out jewelry onto the counter for a caseline change. Sorry can't help you, I have my own issues to take care of. I just need to refocus myself. 23 days and it will be over. And in those 23 days I have 3 days off....lets make each of those days really count.

This Sunday the Christmas tree will go up and we will decorate the house. Meghan has requested that we please put lights outside....she is tired of looking like we are not in the Christian spirit. I explained to her that Christianity has nothing to do with lights outside, that that is the commercialization of the holiday.....but ....it is her holiday too, so we have a couple of those lighted trees to put out.

Today is a late day so it's kind of like having a day off. I go in at 2:30, time to get moving and get my laundry done and clean the house before I need to get ready for work.

Oh and yes, I have begun to mix up my homemade truffles for the season too. I need more liqueurs to finish them, but I am bound and determined to find a pecan liqueur so that I can try a new pumpkin truffle that I found.