h-o-leeeeeeee moocows, batman. i have spent the past week or so at work:
-signing 400+ company christmas cards for FOUR people who were not in the office to sign them
-putting address, return address and stamps on 400+ envelopes for said company cards
-stuffing 400+ company cards into 400+ labeled and stamped envelopes
-sealing 400+ company cards
-mailing 400+ company cards
OMG. so many cards. it took me two days of basically nonstop signing to get all the signatures on the cards, because my hand kept cramping up. i haven't written like that since we had to handwrite essays in high school. in cursive. uphill and backwards? no...that doesn't make sense.
aside from that, Nate and I did some shopping this weekend, and now we have a SPECTACULAR memory foam mattress topper for our crappy, back-hurting mattress...which really just makes me never want to get out of bed ever again. this means I've been slightly later than normal to work this week...but it's also a lazy, 3-day week, so I'm not too worried about it. most of the office is out, some of them for the rest of the year (since this week is short and next week is short.)
We got our printer from Nate's parents, so I've been looking online for easy holiday decoration ideas, since we have both photo and regular paper (both at home and at work) for me to craft with. I was thinking of making some heart garland out of some of our photos of the trip, to hang over our bed until we get some kind of frame/headboard going on (but seriously, who knows when that will be,) but I will probably not do it until this weekend, after I have finished my stocking stuffer shopping for Nate (we're only doing "stockings," no big gifts, so no big wrapping projects,) while he's at work, so it be a sort-of surprise. i do, however need some brads -- or some way to attach the string (which I also need) to the pictures once I print them out, besides the scotch tape we have. This requires finding a craft shop near the apartment, which may or may not be an easy task.
In any case, our stockings are hung, and I bought a small (fake) Christmas tree and some silver and white star ornaments from Borders, because everything was 50% off, plus a Christmas-tree smelling candle, so the house is looking more and more festive! We were contemplating working serving Christmas dinner on Christmas day, but we'll probably just hang out at the house, or take my co-worker up on her offer to hang out at her house with her, husband, baby and some extended family to play Kinect and eat entirely too much.
I've been getting really into decorating the apartment (besides for Christmas,) which, as I was telling Nate, I think is because this is the first place we've lived together that we chose together. Our apartment in MA, he chose and moved into about the time we started dating, so I didn't move into it until about three months after. It was mostly his furniture and his housewares, with the things which were important to me (from my first apartment in Boston,) mixed in. The second place we lived was with his parents, so no decorating there, and the third place we lived was in our car. It's nice to have a place that is a fresh start, for both of us, so we can decide on furniture, both pieces and arrangements, and decor together. We found this awesome bar table and chair set at Bed, Bath and Beyond when we were there looking for our mattress topper (which was our big Christmas gift to ourselves,) which will fit perfectly in the little hallway space next to the kitchen, for less than the one we were looking at on Target.com. Plus we have a 20% off coupon, so that will be the next big furniture purchase. And then we can put up pictures and artwork, and it will be like we actually live somewhere, and aren't just vagabonds. Terribly exciting!
-C
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