I made the decision today at work that I am going to be eating healthier from now on. No cheating! My biggest goal to start off with is the goal of no more fast food. I am vowing that I will only eat food we have in our house! Even if I eat the “bad” stuff in our house, it is still healthier than eating grease-soaked fast food. Because I’ve made this resolution, I now need to go grocery shopping to stock up on some healthier items like fruits and veggies. I’ll probably go with the frozen variety because we never eat the fresh produce fast enough. I hate throwing food away that has spoiled!

My throat hurts really bad. I have no idea if something is coming on or if it is just due to the frigid cold weather but I feel like there is this painful lump in the back of my throat whenever I swallow. Everyone I know is sick right now and I’m just crossing my fingers that it doesn’t infect me. The last thing I need right now is to get sick. I’ve got to make it to Christmas next weekend so I can see my family from out of town and my Grandparents. I can’t be around my Grandma if I’m ill because she is so fragile right now.

I’m printing the last of the Save The Date cards right now. After this I plan to generate the “envelopes” for our Christmas cards and get those printed. If I can get our Christmas cards mailed out by early next week I will be VERY proud of myself! We aren’t doing any special “photo” cards this year. I decided with wedding invites and everything else I’ve got going on, I don’t really need to pile that on my plate as well.

We put some Christmas decorations up outside tonight. I lined one side of the driveway with lights and also put a lighted garland up around the front door. It’s pretty much going to be the extent of our decorating this year. We just didn’t have time to do the outdoor lights this year. It got way too cold, way too quickly and when it is freezing cold outside it is not fun to put lights up at all. Right now it is 45° out but I’ve heard that we have some rain/ice in the forecast for the weekend. Well, better go let the puppies out.  Going to give them baths tonight and wash their crate bedding.