Merry Christmas, everyone! The last few weeks have been filled with food, gifts, cards, and more food. Every day I visit the kitchen where I work, a bunch of desserts are bein displayed for the taking. I love desserts. We also had our holiday party. The picture is of me opening my office gift....I got earmuffs. Exciting, eh? :)

I'll be heading off to Toledo to spend Christmas with my mom, mom's husband, my Grandma and Uncle. I'll only be visiting for a few days, but I'm sure it will be a food-filled event despite the small crowd. As usual, I didn't buy any gifts. I always just bake desserts and give them away as gifts.

I firmly believe that pets should be a part of a family and am always completely infuriated when I see pets that are neglected, or worse, abused. Since it got colder, I've been parking my car in my garage, which is only accessible by the alley behind my house. In the mornings, I drive down the long alley to start my commute to work (all 8 minutes it takes me to get to work...whew!). And every morning, this sweet dog would run out of it's dog-house and turn 'round and 'round and 'round as I passed by. At first I thought it was cute, but then I realized it wasn't so cute. The dog is enclosed in a small fenced pen, maybe 4 feet by 3 feet....inside the pen is a small dog-house. The dog is NEVER not in the pen....even when it's 3 degrees outside, the dog is out in it's pen shivering (it's not a long-haired dog). There is dog poo everywhere and the poor thing is most likely turning circles as I drive past because it's the only activity/excitement it gets in it's miserable life.

So, after seeing this for over a month and ensuring that the dog is never taken inside even when it's below 0 degrees, I called Animal Control on the bastards! I figured they could assess if the dog was indeed being neglected and would take the proper procedures to ensure the dog was cared for. This morning (the day after I called Animal Control), I was elated to find that the dog was no longer in it's pen! Yay!! I am so incredibly happy that I was able to help. Hopefully the dog is at least in a warm place right now. Now I want to scour Indianapolis and save all the animals. :)

I've been neglecting my blog lately, I know. But I've been pretty sick this last month or so. I've been gone from work and then when I do go to work I'm catching up. I'm back at work right now after being sick all last weekend....although I still feel sick. I'm also dealing with pain in my abdomen caused by a cyst on one of my ovaries. Supposedly there's no cause for alarm, as these cysts are fairly common and go away by themselves. I'm still feeling a bit worried about the whole situation. I guess because I'm so focused on my health...exercise, eating well, finding ways to cope better with stress, etc. So, it's a bit depressing that despite all this, I am having health problems right now. What a pain in the butt.

Anyway, so that's why I haven't been on top of my blog lately. But I think I'll get back into it soon and post on a more regular basis.

I recently put up Christmas lights. I think they look pretty nice. I wasn't able to find a plug on the outside of my house so I had to be creative. I have a mail-slot in my door, so I plugged the cord inside and fished it through the mail-slot. So, now I have this 50 footer neon orange cord plugged into a wall in my TV room, most of it wound up sitting in a corner of the room. It looks a bit silly, but it does the job. See how pretty!!??