The Weekend of Accomplishments

Todd and I managed to get about a million things done this weekend, starting with his company's holiday party on Friday night (bonus: meeting the President of the Giants!).

Behold:

- attended second cousin Rhea's birthday party (she's two!)

- second wedding dress fitting

- wonderful Chestnut and Union Christmas browsing extravaganza (not so much with the buying, but did find Todd a lovely little present at an antiques shop owned by a quite crazy British woman!)

- moved most wedding registry gifts from the huge corner of the living room that they previously occupied to the storage room in our garage

- traveled to Rancho Siempre Verde, an AWESOME Christmas tree farm in Pescadero, where we chopped down our own tree (Todd's first!)

- situated the tree, put multitudes of presents under her, strung her with twinkling rainbow lights and trimmed her boughs with ornaments - including the one purchased last weekend by Todd's lovely mom from the USC bookstore --> our tree is officiously a Trojan!

- got the car washed {it needed it}

- went grocery shopping

- had a great linner (or dunch, if you prefer) at Joe's, a restaurant straight out the fifties, where I ordered rigatoni al pesto, got penne al pesto, and was told that at Joe's, penne is called rigatoni. Obviously. We loved it. Todd's entree came with the Best Steak Fries Ever. and that's saying something. I didn't even put ketchup on them! {Yes, I stole a few...}

- took care of our bills, so we'd start the week not having to worry about it :-)

All in all, am going to sleep tonight in the knowledge that as soon as my evidence exam is over on Tuesday, there will be a little time for relaxation and reflection before my last final, in family law on the 17th, and heading to Vashon Island, Seattle for the holidays...

For now, here's a snapshot of me at the second fitting, which was on Saturday afternoon:

More to come!  Hope everyone's having a good holiday season so far! :-)