february already?

Well to look back at the one and only post we made for January you'd think it was pretty uneventful for us... I don't know how true that is but I do know that I did use the "my arm's broken" excuse several times for not getting around to doing this or that. In reality it really did slow me down a bit but as of now I think things are on the mend at last - I have actually started to use my arm a good bit more over the past week at work and at home and am getting back to feeling a little more normal! In fact one of the sure signs of recovery is that I'm back into the couponing groove - I saved 91% in my trip to Kroger this afternoon. I was definitely thankful as I finished up at work yesterday to have two days of a break out in front of me. Claude was not quite as lucky though as he's been on call in the SICU all day today / tonight - he really has been quite a trooper through this intern year. I don't know how he does it but I do know that I'm mighty lucky to have ended up with such a great guy:)


In other news - and kind of linking back to the title - we happened to win a little contest which had been waged with Breck and Laura for who could keep their Christmas tree up the longest. Laura fessed up last week to having already taken theirs down, so now that we've won I decided to go ahead and take down our ornaments tonight (yes it is February the 7th) and pack them back up and away upstairs. It's about time I guess - hoping we can get the tree down tomorrow sometime after Claude recovers from his shift. In keeping with the "December" kind of spirit I just today opened up one of my stocking stuffers from Claude (courtesy of myself in fact)...


I love this lotion - I'm not sure why but since it's seasonal it might have something to do with "absence makes the heart grow fonder." In my case the absence has been due to: 1) my refusal to pay full price for things in general when they'll surely be on sale later and 2) the fact that by the time this scent is on sale the lotion has already been sold out for the past couple of years. In fact my last bottle of this was confiscated in the Salt Lake airport a couple of years ago - anyway, thanks to good old Claude I've got a new bottle.



In the meantime there's been an exciting addition to the blogging world over here. So YAY Emily (and David) for giving me another way to pass the time online:)