Christmas at last!

So, I've spent the last week cleaning like a fiend, I think I lost some weight...just kidding, but possibly. I also finally got around to getting the Christmas decorations down out of our garage attic. The hot summer months didn't bode well for my candles, as you'll see in one of the pictures below, but rest assured, I came down into my kitchen this morning to see my father in law placing them in boiling water with a mischeivious grin upon his face as if he were twelve again. They've all been erected to their original states thank in part to needle nose pliers. Also, I decorated with red and white roses. Poinsettas would have been nice, but I'm not at all certain my dogs wouldn't figure out how to eat some without my knowing until it was too late. Dead poochies are not on my christmas list. You'll see an adorable picture of them at the end too.

Hope you enjoyed these clips! I can't wait to leave for my parents' house on Wednesday!!! Coming up quickly! I'll have to get on top of packing for it here shortly:)

My kitchen nightmare...

It's always disheartening when you've finishing cooking and the dogs think you've left them a feast on the cupboards.....

First of December

It's still Autumn here. I can't believe I haven't posted since September! That's such a long long long time ago it seems, and yet it flew by so quickly. Tomorrow Zach and I leave for Costa Rica to vacation with my sisters and brother in law! Very excited, a bit nervous, but mostly just trying to concentrate on the moment to be sure it doesn't end up being like a bad dream where you never seem to get to the place you're dying to go to.

I have to tell a story. It actually kind of follows up from my last post...you know how I was talking about my savvyness  with candles? Well, this is me putting my foot in my mouth. I can actually do that I believe, but let's get to how I burnt a black hole in my living room carpet shall we? Well, that's the story really, I'd thought it a splendid idea to sit on the ground, instead of my couch, to meditate and pray this morning, so why not bring an entourage of candles with me to the floor. Set the mood you know, so I can shift consciousness and really make it worth my while. I'm not sure Zach is going to let me burn candles in the house after this. He mentioned something about possibly winning the Darwin award someday, but that he hoped he wasn't around to be the guy that happened to die too. Well, the end point, there was one pillar candle, an older one, nearly done with its life that I used. I should have listened when instinct told me it would melt and make a mess of things, but that wouldn't happen to me. So, there I am meditating along, when I hear Max, my dog with much better instincts than I, hides behind the couch. I open my eyes to see a black pool of plastic and wax forming where the base of the candle once was just fifteen minutes prior. It was like a cartoon probably, because I believe I jumped to my feet, eyes wide, mouth open from letting go a small gasp-scream (which caused Max to run upstairs and promptly hide under the bed), hands stretched wide in front of me while I was ready to fight or flight my way to safety. Now, it was only the size of the bottom of this pillar candle, but I could have sworn it was getting bigger fast, and though this all seemed to take forever, I do believe it happened rather quickly. I looked up onto the couch where my other dog, Lana, was lying luxuriously, just watching me unaware of the dire situation, my mind racing as to with what I would put out this small fire before it spread. I grabbed my handy dandy cotton pharmacy throw blanket and suffocated the flame right out of that fire I tell you. As I looked at what I had done, I half expected a flame to spontaneously reappear, so I placed a glass over the spot to ease my mind of that. I guess I need an area rug in there after all, as long as I don't burn a hole in that too. I will say, this is the first time I've actually done damage like this, so given all the candles I'm accustomed to burning, I'd say it was my due time to pay my respects to the great Fire lord. Anyway, it staaaank. Yuck. What a sad black hole it is.

Well, there's my story, it was a pretty big deal. It really messed up my calm meditative mood.