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A Mark Darcy Makeover
This background is the wrapping paper I used this year. I bought it specifically because it looks like a sweater and had reindeer on it. I couldn't pass up Mark Darcy wrapping paper.

Mark: I realize that, when I met you at the turkey currey buffet, I was unforgiveably rude and wearing a reindeer jumper.

Although this is much more subtle than Mark's jumper.



Let's see, what's been going on...

OH! I'm the Mario Party champion!! Wednesday at Jen & Bob's we made goat cheese ravioli from scratch (we're very fancy). Jen made the filling and Kate & I assembled. Then we played Mario Party and I DOMINATED. I ended the game with 5 stars and that was after Bob stole one, and then Bowser took one away too. It really just confirms my opinion on how completely random that game actually is. Mostly a matter of luck. I did really well in the mini games through happy accidents. Managed to get paired with Jen on the "button mashers" where it's just a matter of how many times you can hit a button in a set period of time (and Jen and I happened to be better at it than Bob or Kate--so together we're unstoppable), and got good games when I was alone in the 3 against 1s.

Then they taught me Mexican Train Dominoes, and while I don't think I'll become quite the domino fiend as the three of them, it was fun.

Thursday night was drinks with the girls after work--I met up with Caroline & Andrea for margaritas (except Andrea, she has a tequila moratorium, so daquiris for her) at this little Mexican restaurant a few blocks from my office. It was easily the best chicken quesedilla I've ever had. And the margarita went right to my head. Always been more of a two-drink-maximum kind of girl. Katie picked me up and we went out to the movies. The Holiday was just as good the second time--and Jude was JUST as HOT.

Then Friday was waking up early for another drive out to Freeburg. Two full days of nothing. This was a rescheduled trip from last weekend--Grandma's birthday. This is one of the few times in the year that we visit Freeburg when there's not really anything happening in town. So it's eating, sleeping and church--and practically nothing else for the entire time. Woo! We headed back after church on Saturday night. We don't usually drive back after dark, but this gave us the chance to see the Christmas lights. There was one house that had EIGHT light up Santas in the yard.

Sunday was Christmas with the Carpenter relatives. We started out with church. All the kids were very well behaved. Later there were presents! Michelle had my name this year and she got me some really cute socks and a gift card from Kohl's and SANTA got me Miracle on 34th Street!! I had no idea Santa read my blog! (Which makes me think one of my aunties told him.) We tried to play Yankee Swap with the board games that Aunt Sa bought, but it was more just Yankee Open--not so much with the swapping. I got a game called Visual Eyes, where you make words and phrases from the pictures on a bunch of dice. McKenna wanted to help put the stickers on the dice, and I was hesitant, because I am anal, but she did a very good job.



I watched The Bishop's Wife tonight--the Cary Grant movie that The Preacher's Wife was based on. He wasn't even supposed to be in the movie originally. Brought in to replace the actor playing the bishop, but then he threw his weight around until they made him the angel and transferred David Niven over to bishop. That was kind of a dick move. I bet DN was pissed.

I didn't get to watch Hardware! I set up the VCR and everything, but it got interrupted by one of the recurring recordings I set up. But I ended up taping The Robinsons instead, which is pretty funny, too:

Maggie: What I'm saying is, she's just your level. Not too bright; not too pretty. Shut up, Maggie.

Ed: I do like my family--in small doses. A trip to Prague is a very large dose, it's a potentially fatal dose.