4 months until the big day!  Things are falling into place.  We found a DJ this week, and I put a down payment on my wedding ring last night!  We also got our favors this week and started putting them together.  I’m slowly addressing invitations.  And now there are only 4 months to go!  Yay

Rather than blab on and on about what we’ve been up to, I’m going to sum it up with pictures:

Molly wearing my Snuggie.  She didn’t like it much, but luckily I do!

Our award-winning Ugly Christmas Sweaters from the front…

And from the back!  (See the lights?)

We went to Rochester for a couple days, and got a taste of winter!

We spent most of the trip huddled under blankets.

So far this year, I have knit a sock.  (Pattern is “Cauchy” from Cookie’s Sock Innovation book, yarn is Hazel Knits.)  I cranked this one out in a couple weeks, and hopefully the momentum will keep up and I’ll finish the second one soon too.  Ever since we froze in NY I’m addicted to my handknit socks again, and I want to use my new sock book (thanks Mom!) to knit a pair each month this year.

Doctors Without Borders was already in Haiti providing medical care when the earthquake hit.  Now they are not only trying to help treat the many thousands of killed and wounded, many of them were killed or wounded as well.  The Yarn Harlot is a lot more eloquent than I am, but I wanted to spread the word.

I’m back in Florida after a whirlwind trip to NY, and trying to gear up to get back to “real life.” Last night I worked night 1 of 3 in a row, and Monday I start my fourth (and LAST) semester of nursing school. I had hoped to spend Thursday night cleaning the house and getting everything in order before the mad rush of school began again, but some wintry weather got in my way. I cleared off the dining room table and my desk this morning, so I’m starting to feel a little closer to ready – but I still have several loads of laundry to do, Christmas to put away, bread to bake, grocery shopping to do…but for now it’s time for bed.

It’s Christmas Eve Eve (as the title may have implied), and it still hasn’t really hit me.  I’ve got my shopping done, presents wrapped/sent, house decorated, and tree and lights up (but no ornaments on the tree, just never got around to it).  Apparently the crazy is just hitting me now though, because I decided it would be a super great idea to bake a bunch of cookies and paint our bedroom – tonight.  (Not just tonight, I’m not totally crazy…I’ll finish it tomorrow and Friday.)  And I still have a sleeve and yoke of one ugly sweater to finish and the other one to fix or remodel by January 1.  And 4th semester reading to get ahead on.  One week of “vacation” was enough, time to get busy!

In other news, Adam and I have been watching our way through The Office on the Netflix instant viewer.  We are almost done with Season 3, and I can’t figure out how I went so long without this show!