Daily 5 - Day 133

Today's Daily "5":

1. Pumpkin cookies that I baked last night.  I forgot how good those things are.  May have to keep a few of those instead of giving them away.
2. A really quick, simple chicken recipe (with roasted green beans) for supper that was so tasty
3. An hour of laughing and chatting with my hairstylist while she made me hair look great again.  I love chatting with her.  Such random conversations, but always lots of laughing.
4. Only 1/2 day of work left until holidays :)
5. sticking to my budget, even in the face of an awesome sale tonight.
6. (Bonus tonight!) Walking next to the air ambulance helicopter when it landed on the nearby helipad.  Which would have been cool anyway, but was totally a crazy experience thanks to the feet of snow everywhere that the rotor blades kicked up.  Instant white-out conditions, and man did that snow sting as it pelted into my face at high speed.
   

Haircut!

Can I just say that I LOVE my hairdresser?  And that I love that I have good hair again right before Christmas.  (Though it'll never be this straight again until the next time I get it cut!)  Six months is definitely too long to go between cuts with my super thick wavy hair.  I've got to stop doing that!

Pausing

I'm pausing, just for a moment, to catch my breath.

We're on pace for a record number of credit card payments to be put through via the phone today.  Guess who gets to take those calls and record all the information?  Yah.  That would be me.

I was so looking forward to getting my hair cut tonight.  It's been about six months, and I'm desperately in need of some hair help.  I'm still looking forward to it, but my excitement is slightly dulled by the realization this morning that my hairdresser is located in a mall.  I have to go to a mall, and find parking, two days before Christmas.  Gross.

And, I have to resist temptation while doing it.  Because one of my favorite shops - where I buy all my skin care, hair care, and generally self-pampering products - is having a stupidly good sale.  Any 3 items in the store for $30.  Could be three $20/each items.  I could have them all for thirty bucks.  But my budget doesn't have room for this, and when they had this same sale about a month ago (unheard of by the way - clearly there is some recession selling going on), I stocked up on the items I regularly use.  So there's no real need to buy more.  Sigh.  Everything within me rebels at not taking advantage of the sale.

And now, after this brief pause for sanity, I must return to the busyness of the day.

4 hours to go (though one of them is my lunch!).

Then the train home, make dinner, and head out to find parking at the mall.

But after that comes an hour or so of pampering, and I'll walk out of there with really great hair.  That I'm definitely looking forward to.

And then maybe beginning to package up Christmas baking for wrapping and giving.

I'll be back later today, with a daily 5 list, and, if I have time, with a great prayer, fitting for this season, from Walter Bruggemann.  That'll come tomorrow if I don't get to it tonight.

Totally Superfluous

I'm going to be totally superflouous just for a few mintues, because my day is a little bit busy, and well, this is a quick thing to post, and it's sort of accurate to me, and made me chuckle a little.

You Are Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

You are a natural leader, though sometimes you are reluctant to step up to a leadership role. You see the world more clearly than most people, and often, you are the only one who can guide others. People may doubt your talents at first. You tend to be underrated and underappreciated. But once others see what you are truly capable of, they feel like fools for ever having doubted you.

What Christmas Character Are You?

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