Quite week - without a phone

This has been a busy week, but a quiet one. It started on Monday when we realized that our home phone was out again. I called the phone company and they sent someone out on Tuesday. He found that a mouse had built a nest and had chewed through our phone line. He fixed it, but it was more than that we found out. The phone guy said that when the line blew he took out our phone. Meaning that our main line phone is now history! It has 4 phones that connect to the base unit that is now gone. Buying a new phone system like this is complicated and we have not decided on a phone yet, so that means that the phone isn't ringing and it is sooooo nice. If you know us well enough, you know mom's phone number and that line works fine, but it isn't ringing so it has been nice all week without a phone. I will have to break down and buy a new phone but we are looking for a 2 line phone with the extensions so that we can get rid of mom's phone on the counter and her phone would still ring over here.

Work has been crazy this week. OTSCON celebrated our 20th anniversary celebration and holiday party on Friday. It lasted 4 hours plus the set-up and tear-down time made it an all day event. It was really nice and well decorated. The committee did a great job and I wasn't part of that committee, but of course got delegated into working the celebration.

Kristi and I ran to Target last night to pick up the few Christmas Presents for Alayna. We are not going to do a lot this year and think that Alayna might be done. I am not sure if I am done yet or not. Got other things I need to buy and of course Christmas is here so I am not sure what is going to come first.

Today has been busy with cleaning house and all the cooking I did. I decided a few days ago that Alayna and I were going to make sugar cookies and decorate them. I made one batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies and then a triple batch of sugar cookies. I got the stuff to decorate them as well. This took a lot longer than I expected, but we had fun. Some of the cookies are really cute and others (towards the end) are just covered in frosting with sprinkles.

Tomorrow I am planning on working on Christmas cards and a project that I need to do. I am not sure how far I will get. Brian is coming to eat and Tom has a plan to try to cut up one of the four trees he "dropped" last Friday. He got the trees to the ground, but they are laying there. We need to cut them up for firewood.

See how boring our lives are...make me wonder why I have trouble sleeping...I am bored!