5 things

Sometimes it's hard to come up with five things that are good in my life right this very minute. And other days....well....it's hard to limit myself to just five.

It's 0648 on a Tuesday before Christmas. I'm off work until....well....i'm not scheduled again on a date that ends in 2010. So, good to be me. Joe is already at work but hoping to be home earlier than last night's arrival at almost 2000 (8pm). We're going out with friends tonight so i'm crossing my fingers that today is a shorter day for him.

He's off tomorrow (me too!) so we're going out to lunch. I love, love, love his days off in the middle of the week. Usually the kids are at school and we just run errands and go out to lunch. With the kids being home tomorrow, he'll get to spend an extra "weekend day" with them, doing whatever. I fear that they may have more Christmas stuff to do but i'm out of the loop on that one. The only Christmas stuff that Joe has to do is for me and i've said many times that i have already everything that i need. In fact, more than i need.

I have a new washer and dryer (front loaders, both). Woohoo. Surely a sign that i'm a "grown-up" when i'm excited about laundry appliances. :-S They are noisier than my former set and take longer (one hour and 45 minutes for the "whitest white" load with pre-soak in bleach!!) but i can do two loads-worth of clothes at once. Twice as many clothes, twice the length of the wash/dry cycle. It balances out.

It's a few days before Christmas....the sky is clear and blue.....and it's 54 degrees. The Sandia Crest ski area opened yesterday (just up the road...then up the mountain). The crest has two feet of snow and looks lovely. I'm hoping to go up there this weekend to snow shoe (last year's AMAZING gift from my FANTASTIC husband!). Then home to the hot tub and mango pop. See? It's hard to limit myself to only five great things in my life.

And i get to see my mommy in a few weeks.

And i get to go to Mexico and lie on the beach, immobile, like a beached whale, and read trash magazines while drinking Hummingbirds in a few weeks.

And it's not raining in my kitchen. :-)

Off to take a walk to get the applesauce to make cinnamon "cookies" with glue as decorations for the tree. They take five days (!) to dry so i'd best get started ASAP.