Happy Holidays

We are just back from a 10 day Caribbean cruise. It was extremely relaxing! You may notice my new Facebook profile pic. But of course, no vacation goes unpunished. I have two grant proposals coming due, two grant reports due, two project budgets to revise for reapproval, and of course, very little done for the holidays!

My holiday to do list:
1) Cards-this will be done sometime before Jan. 5th. :-)
2) A few more outdoor decorations
3) Grocery shopping
4) A few more gifts-did a lot of shopping last night with no car, just the bus. My arms were sore.

Chris baked cookies for me last weekend so we had time to join friends for the (diappointing) Packer game. Wasn't that nice? We did peanut blossoms, fudge and toffee.

For Christmas with my FIL, et al, we are repeating the cooking class Chris and I took in Antigua. It's called "Cooking with Rum." I'm buying the groceries, the instructor gave us the recipes, and we are all going to cook the food. There are six of us, and I have a reasonably large kitchen, so it should be fun. We'll have 1-2-3-4 rum punch to drink (parts lime juice, sugar, rum and water) and finish with espresso martinis. They were my favorite after dinner drink on the cruise. We've now had 30 of the 34 "designer" martinis on the ship's martini menu. :-)

I hope everyone has a very happy holiday season. Cheers!