Vacation Time!!

First off, I hope that everyone had a lovely Christmas. I hope you were kind to yourself, maintained your boundaries, and felt some of the love and joy of the season. 🎄❤️

Technically our vacation is a stay-cation as we aren't going anywhere... but man it's nice to not have to wake up with an alarm clock for a week or so.

Ace was less than impressed with his stocking. Hehe. 

Before we get into the holiday shenanigans, here's where my losing weight obsession may have gone off the rails. At the beginning of the month, I declared Dec 19 as "effective year-end" cuz who the hell steps on a scale between Christmas and new years?? Then I thought "no, you need to stay accountable, so Dec 24 will be the official year end." Then I went back and forth with this a bit until I arrived at the ONLY logical conclusion. Dec 23 would be the effective year end IF that weight was LESS than the Dec 19th one. So... yeah. Dec 19 is the effective year end with 22 lbs lost. That leaves between 33 and 43 to go! So if I continue with what I'm doing, I should be at goal come this time next year. Then it's just a question of maintenance. And possibly getting some new work out clothes since my clothing buying ban ends on Jan 1. 😁 now, tbh I'm probably going to still weigh myself next week, but I'm not gonna stress about it. 

After a week of the WORST "I don't wanna's," it was finally Wednesday afternoon. I worked half a day, then came home to hubbs, pizza, and Christmas movies. We opened our Christmas eve presents (just one each) and then went to bed. Christmas morning we took turns stuffing stocking and opened gifts from others! 

This is officially my favorite pic of the Ace with the tree.

He might need a bigger shark.

The new scratcher is a hit!!

He's having a helluva time getting the treats out. Lol.

So Ace made out like a bandit! Dad called and we got to catch up. Then hubbs and I headed to his sisters house. We had a lovely dinner and played white elephant. Hubbs and I got a new game where we can hit each other with swords and I got the generals hot sauce. 🤪 Then we came home and I got to chat with mom. Then it was bedtime. We had a rather nice, chill Christmas. 🎄

Hubbs and I got to relax on Friday. We rolled the dice and went to Lone Star Bar&Grill for lunch. We hadn't been there before and can now confidently say that it's one of the diveyist of dive bars. Lol. Good drinks and good food, tho. Hubbs decided we needed a bit of a bar crawl so we had an appetizer at lone star, then went to station 330 for an entree, and ended at Eagle Point for dessert. It was a fun day. Nice to be out and about with the warm weather. We came home and watched Emmit Otter (cuz boxing day) and then went to bed. 

Ace was thrilled. 

He's got a nice little set up now. 😁

Saturday was more relaxing and chilling with the kitty cat.

The cutest toe beans!!!

Sunday we got groceries and planned to spend the rest of the day at home. I brought in my pepper plants cuz it's supposed to get COLD later for like 2 days and then be back in the 70s. I'm wondering what I'm going to do with myself for a week! Read? Plan world domination? Prep enough food for MONTHS of lunches? Who knows?! Bestie is coming up eventually, so that will be fun. Here's to ringing in a new year, everyone!! 🥂