  A PUPPY! For a week anyway...a friend of mine is out of town for the Holidays (lucky her! ) and we volunteered to watch their dog, Otis for them while they're away. Not in our apartment of course...but we go over to their house twice a day and feed him and play with him and love him...it's fun pretending for a few short moments that I have a dog. God only knows when/if I'll ever have one of my own...so playing with other people's dogs will just have to do.
We did all of our Christmas shopping this last weekend. Pretty pathetic...waiting til' the last minute huh? Nah, we didn't think so! It was fun. I keep going back and forth on wanting to celebrate Christmas at all this year. It's hard for me to get in the spirit, when all I want to do is be with my family. I got Deane some nice presents I hope. I'm always afraid that he'll open them and pretend to like them when on the inside he's thinking "Ohhhh, how creative...you got me things you heard me talk about but didn't really care if I got...what I REALLY wanted was...." I KNOW he would NEVER EVER do something like that, but my crappy self-esteem just makes me feel like that. I feel really good about the presents I get him until I pay for them and then I walk out of the store and think "Uhhh...maybe he doesn't want this as much as I think he does. " *sigh* Just another reason I'm so undecided about Christmas... My neice got a puppy for Christmas!!!
She got a urlLink Rat Terrier and she named her Camille! The pictures they sent me are ohhhh so cute...just makes me want a puppy or a dog even more now. I've browsing urlLink Pet Finder and looking at all the little puppies and dogs up for adoption in the Los Angeles area and it totally breaks my heart...there are people out there who discard their dogs like they're nothing when there are people out there like ME and DEANE who would give our left arm for a little puppy or a dog!!! UGH! UNFAIR? YES! I've also been researching urlLink Portland, Oregon . Why? Because. I want to move there. I want to be closer to my family and my friends. I get the sad feeling though that Deane doesn't like the idea of ever leaving here again...*sigh* I'm just tired of having that sick-to-your-stomach feeling all the time from being so homesick.
Atleast if we lived in Portland we could visit my family on the weekends and stuff. Oh, well. Life. Hmmm...what else? Not much. Oh! The apple cake I baked for the potluck at work last Friday went over really well. There were a ton of desserts there, but the people that tried the cake all really liked it and they ate about half of it. I'm quite proud of it :-) I also made that Chips-Ahoy! Pie and we've eaten part of it and I think the rest will have to be thrown out...not because it wasn't good, just because we haven't been home much to eat it, and it's been in the fridge since last Thursday!
Last weekend was fun. Like I said, we did our Christmas shopping, but on Friday night we took his mom out to dinner at urlLink Red Robin . MMM It was soooo good. I used to eat there a lot in Seattle because the place I worked was right over one...and they gave us a discount...then on Saturday night we had dinner with his mom again, and his brother who's home from urlLink Creighton .
He made a yummy Prime Rib...mmmm...soooo good!!! Anyway--tonight we went to the urlLink Northridge Mall to do some more last-minute-crowded-pushing-shoving-kicking Christmas Shopping for his mom and he snuck off to get me a gift...stinker!!! Wouldn't let me open the trunk afterwards either...I MAY have to open a can of whoop-ass on him later!!! Off to bed!!! Goodnight!!
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