Sat 20 Dec

This will have to be a busy weekend since I didn't get motivated to do as much holiday prep during the evenings last week as I would have hoped. Had one on-call last night at 10:15 pm, but was able to handle it over the phone. Hopefully not too many interruptions today when things need to get done. Remembered that I have to cantor at 6 pm tomorrow so won't need to go to church in the morning, but need to remember to go in the evening. Thinking that Christmas dinner will be just Bob and me, Laura and Michael and Taylor because I have a nice Costco leg of lamb roast in the freezer that will be a lovely Christmas dinner for us. Wouldn't really be enough to add Leone and Mick though. I will take a little fruitcake for Leone and maybe some beer for Mick over there this weekend and gently let them know we won't be doing the big family dinner together on Christmas. If we get cookies baked today, I can take them a plate of those as well. We had an expensive surprise today. The dishwasher died a noisy death, and with the holidays on our doorstep, we decided to replace it right away as it really was pretty old. Nice to have a handyman in the house so we didn't have to pay for installation. I used the time to get the gifts wrapped. Food: 7:20 am Costco cinnamon roll, 1/2 grapefruit, 101 g blackberries, coffee 12:20 pm Caramel Macchiato Greek blend yogurt 3:00 pm Caramel corn 6:15 pm 8 oz hard cider Exercise: 4:40-5:25 pm Leslie Sansone Four Fast Miles DVD