It's December 20 and I've already eaten my weight in Christmas/Hanukkah cookies. I froze the leftover Hanukkah ones for Christmas, and I've been raiding the freezer. Forget the religious issues, celebrating both holidays is wreaking havoc on my waistline.
I have four big meals coming up, and I'm responsible for all of them: Christmas Eve, Christmas dinner, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day open house. There will be a lot of ordering.
I have a raging chest cold, and that does seem to be helping with the appetite suppressant side of things - I haven't gone near the freezer today. So that's good.
I went to a minute clinic about the coughing this afternoon, and the nurse practitioner used a regular blood pressure cuff on me. Because my arms, while not small, are regular-sized now. That was a nice NSV.
Back to holiday news: I haven't wrapped a single gift, I just ordered our Christmas cards the other day and I need to put together the grocery shopping list for the big dinners. Nothing like a looming deadline to get a procrastinator to focus.
