I got home last night and my new Sony Clie was waiting for me on my doorstep. It's been fun reading up on the features it offers. I haven't done much with it yet because I need to synch it with the information from my old palm which is on my computer at work. I did get an extra hot synch cradle though so I'll have access to my information both at work and at home. It's a color PDA so I can load nice pictures of my friends and loved ones onto it. It can also function as an mp3 player and a remote control for the television. The one I got is the "sunset orange" color of the one in the link....it's very pretty.
Productive Weekend
Last night, while waiting for my Clie to charge, I wrote an additional 5 thank you notes (Stepan is WAY behind). Today, we brought our outdoor Christmas lights down from the attic and spent a good portion of the day putting them up. Stepan took care of the icicles on roof and I finally installed the luminaire sets I bought three years ago. The outside of the house looks quite festive. We'll probably put the Christmas tree up next weekend - which gives me one week to organize and clean up the living room. I'm kinda in a cleaning mood, so hopefully I can get it done.
Going along with the "productive" theme - I also did an amazing cleaning job on our kitchen. I cleared off all the non-kitchen crap that tends to collect on our counters. It actually looks like a kitchen you wouldn't mind cooking in now. I've told Stepan that mail, wallets, books, magazines, etc. no longer belong on the kitchen counter. I guess I'll also have to be a lot better about where I set my stuff down when I come in the door since I'm probably just as guilty as Step - it just seems to bother me more when it's his stuff :-)
One more production note: last night, Stepan prepared the dough for a couple of batches of gingerbread cookies. Tonight we roll the dough, cut out the Christmas shapes, and bake the cookies. Tomorrow morning we'll decorate them...hopefully the icing will be dry in time for our first Christmas party of the season at 2pm. We'll definitely be making more Christmas cookies this year, though I'm not sure how many gingerbread cookies we'll actually do. If I remember correctly, we did many, serveral dozen last year and it took FOREVER to decorate them.
Posted by jfer at December 7, 2002 6:22 PMJenny...You Got Mail!
Posted by: mom (aka mil,aka Rita) on December 7, 2002 10:35 PMWell done on the cookies, and I'm very impressed about the thank-you notes. I hope I'm in your pile and not Stepan's! :-)
We put our tree up and decorated it this evening, and if I do say so it looks lovely. Jonathan should be quite thrilled when he wakes up in the morning.
Posted by: Eliz on December 8, 2002 1:43 AMI love the thank you cards - very original. It will go in a family phote collection.
Also, once you get Stepan to quit putting mail, magazines...on the counter would you come up and train your uncle? I've been working on him for 35 years.
Posted by: Cynthia on December 14, 2002 8:08 AM