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My cold is at the sludgy drip part; I've avoided the hacking cough stage thus far. Hoping I'll be able to by-pass that this time. We shall see.
My big adventure for today was going to the circulation department (at work)'s holiday party. Which yes, extremely sanely...is after Christmas. I wore a little grey cropped wool jacket I'd gotten months ago at the Goodwill store. I'd finally made a couple of minor alterations to the jacket a couple of days ago to render it wearable. Potluck lunch; being sick I understandably wasn't going to make anything myself, so I purchased about a pound of chicken wings at the health food market deli. About a third was left over; I took them home again and can make a meal tommorrow out of what is left, which is good.
They had a Yankee Gift Swap (where after a certain point people can force others to trade gifts with them if they like the other gifts better than what they originally got). I had brought a silly fish pen (looks like a lure but is a real pen) that I'd had lying around for a few years and was saving for just such an occasion; it got swapped once by someone who liked it better than what they'd got. I opened a rather nice little unique footed votive candle holder; looks sort of Victorian or Edwardian. I opted to keep it and no one else liked it better enough than their original gift to make me trade, so I kept my first choice.
All in all, I'd say I came out of the get-together ahead of the game - a nice candle holder (I'm getting quite the collection now, what with the one I got from one brother and now this new one), and several pieces of a zucchini frittata type thing I packed away with my leftover wings.
And now the non-drowsy cold medicine I took is still making me feel just the teeeniest bit woozy. Time to settle in for the long winter's evening.
My big adventure for today was going to the circulation department (at work)'s holiday party. Which yes, extremely sanely...is after Christmas. I wore a little grey cropped wool jacket I'd gotten months ago at the Goodwill store. I'd finally made a couple of minor alterations to the jacket a couple of days ago to render it wearable. Potluck lunch; being sick I understandably wasn't going to make anything myself, so I purchased about a pound of chicken wings at the health food market deli. About a third was left over; I took them home again and can make a meal tommorrow out of what is left, which is good.
They had a Yankee Gift Swap (where after a certain point people can force others to trade gifts with them if they like the other gifts better than what they originally got). I had brought a silly fish pen (looks like a lure but is a real pen) that I'd had lying around for a few years and was saving for just such an occasion; it got swapped once by someone who liked it better than what they'd got. I opened a rather nice little unique footed votive candle holder; looks sort of Victorian or Edwardian. I opted to keep it and no one else liked it better enough than their original gift to make me trade, so I kept my first choice.
All in all, I'd say I came out of the get-together ahead of the game - a nice candle holder (I'm getting quite the collection now, what with the one I got from one brother and now this new one), and several pieces of a zucchini frittata type thing I packed away with my leftover wings.
And now the non-drowsy cold medicine I took is still making me feel just the teeeniest bit woozy. Time to settle in for the long winter's evening.
