I had a really awesome Friday Five planned: Ugly (Awesome) Christmas sweaters. It was going to feature ones with dinosaurs and ones that light up and ones with really naughty reindeer and ones that aren’t even Christmas sweaters! In fact, I had so many awesome Christmas sweaters in mind my short list was more like a giant list. But I still had every intention to narrow it down further and further and put together the most epic, awesome, ugly Christmas sweater list in the history of ever.
Then these five things happened.
1. I spent Tuesday evening drinking wine and watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. While the wine was meh, the movie was really good. Can you believe I’ve never seen it before? Yeah, well… I finally have. When I got home, I was pretty tired and ended up going to bed.
2. I totally forgot on Wednesday. Yup. The Boy had the night off work, we hung out and watched TV, I totally forgot.
3. I spent Thursday night at HoHoTO. This is an awesome fundraiser for that happens in Toronto every year: there’s good drinks, good company, a good raffle (I won a brunch-a-month package! om nom nom), and good music – best of all, it’s all for a good great cause: raising money for The Daily Bread Foodbank. This year, the event raised over $50,000 – and it’s not done yet, since the Hangover Auction takes place online on Tuesday, December 18th.
My friend Andrea & I at HoHoTO 2012
4. I joined a Synchronized Swimming team that practices on Friday nights. There’s a blog post coming about this one day, I swear, but I’m swimming for a competitive masters synchro team this year. We practice Friday’s from 8-10, which means I rush home, eat a small snack, and head to the pool. No time for writing before I go – and when I get home, I usually make dinner for The Boy and I, eat food, and we chill out for the night. By the time I got home from the pool, I had a headache , was tired, and totally forgot I had a blog post to write.
5. “If it’s not done on Friday, then I might as well do it later” – me, all day Saturday. Saturday meant running errands, finishing my Christmas shopping (I just have to pick up one last thing and do some crafting for my extended family, but other than that I’m done!), taking an epic nap, ordering pizza, and drinking wine while watching TV with the boy all night.
So here we are – and here you have it: my (two day overdue) Friday-ish Five post.
Next week I’ll do better, I swear.
