Marvelous Monday Update 12/15/08

Weather
Last week started off with a nice (Not!) bout of freezing rain. I woke up to at least 1/4" of ice on my steps and driveway. Thank goodness I had foresight to put salt down twice during the night, otherwise I would've never been able to get out and go to work. Wait... Would that be so bad? LOL

Follow that with a chaser of 20MPH winds and another 3" of snow! The roads were trecherous and messy. I left work an hour early so I wouldn't have to be blowing snow in the dark. I finished up in the d-a-r-k! I am so ready for winter to be OVER! Winter isn't even officially here yet, and I'm ready for the BIG THAW.

By Sunday, temps were in the upper 40's and we had lots of rain. What?? Hard to believe that most of the snow we had has melted. Never fear though, by Sunday night we had a flash freeze on the rain and everything turned to ice.

Today I woke up to a dusting of snow, temp of 4F, and gusty winds! Windchill temps of 18F below zero! Brrr!! Later today is supposed to be a high of 12. Oooooh, HEAT WAVE!


School
I'm free! I'm free! I received my term paper back and got an "A" on it. I'm surprised since it was supposed to be 8 pages long and mine was only 5. I was glad to see the instructor graded on content vs. length. I took my final last Wed and think I did OK. I'll find out what my final grade is tomorrow.

Classes start up again in January, so I'll have a month of "vacation". Woo Hoo!


Work
Every year a Christmas Ornament Luncheon is organized for the ladies who want to participate. We all donate $10 for the food and prizes, and we have to bring a gift wrapped $10 ornament to exchange. The food is always scrumptious and the games and exchange is a lot of fun! This year, our gift bag contained a playing card which determined how we chose an ornament. The organizer chose a card and if ours matched, we could go to the table and choose one. Here's what mine looked like before I opened it:

Each box contained an ornament!

All are so pretty and sparkly!




This was my gift "prize" for attending the luncheon. It's small and really cute.





Last week and this week, my firm asked me to do headshots of all the employees under management level. However, as it ended up... Some of the partners had me do their photographs! Talk about nerve racking!! This week, I'll be finishing them up. Here's a few of the ones I did:


I'm stressing out a little bit about how the lighting isn't consistent, and I don't really know why as I didn't change any of the set up and the light meter readings were the same when I checked it.


Stitchy Stuff
Remember a while back, I stitched Peace Love Cure by Lizzie Kate and then made a flatfold for a Freecycle friend who is a breast cancer survivor?

She emailed me the other day asking for my address to send me a Christmas card. In the same email, she told me she has a pink BC Christmas tree, and how she put PLC underneath it. D said she'd take pics and send them to me, if I'd like. Of course, I said YES!


D also told me that she wants to get together after the holidays for coffee and stitching!

I haven't posted a freebie in a while, so here's a cute one that was shared on the SNS2 group:




Candy Cane
by Madame la Fee







If you haven't already done so, please surf on over to Lisa's blog for some fantastic giveaways! She's a great lady and does some beautiful stitching. :)