Time off?!

I've had some time off - not as much as I first planned for or anticipated, but some time off just the same. I think I would have ended up with that time off whether it had been the holidays or not as once again, I ended up sick. Time off = time sick for me, which really is starting to piss me off.

Oh well.

Haven't gotten half the "crafties" done that I had wanted to get done either, but oh well. I got a new crafties idea from the yule party I went to at a friend's house and the biggest yankee swap action generator was this colourful bag which had a plastic bag of tea inside, but everyone had the same idea and wanted it for the same reason - as a tarot bag! So, I went to the second hand shop the first day out of the house after that and realized that I could re-cycle tank tops into colourful and fun tarot bags and have finished two and am on the third bag tonight. Whoohoo!!! Don't know if anyone would actually buy them or not, but I hope so!!! I'm hand-sewing them and I'm not the best sewer, but I think they will do nicely!

I didn't do any xmas cards this year, but I do have some new years cards that I hope to send out to some people with an example of my crafties in them!

I also have to pack Bonnie's gifts in a box and ship it to Hfx. I was kinda of hoping I'd get down there between xmas and New Years, but being sick took that right out of the question - as did the weather!! We've had 7 storms this month and another one on the way tomorrow and we had 6 storms TOTAL last year according to the guy across the street who plows. BAH!

Xmas itself was great! I got a few surprises, mostly from Van with the big gift being a night away at a local inn with the room being the King Suite with Jacuzzi tub and a hot stone massage. SOOOOOOO nice!!! I have wanted to try a hot stone massage for soooo long now!! We had the overnight last night there and it was truly wonderful! Even though we didn't have to "travel" to go there, it did feel like a world away. I loved the tub - Van didn't so much. I enjoyed the massage, but don't think I'd get another one soon...I just really like my regular masseuse and her deep tissue massage. Mind you, the hot stones were VERY nice, it's not something to pay that much for regularly. :)

Most, if not all of Van's gifts were surprises to him from me, which was cool. Most of it I got Black Friday shopping, so it was a bit difficult for me to keep them secrets, but I did ! Yay me!!!

I think we have to do some furniture buying soon too - for a DVD rack/holder/bookcase thingie to hold all the new DVD's we got! :)

I think that covers things from here. I'm at work at the moment. I have done about an hour and a half of work - Van's on his 5th hour. I should be doing more, but figured I'd stop and write, since I'm technically on vacation.

I think I will be talking to Laurie this week to see if she is willing to put up on her website my tarot bags and bells for sale...I may just wait and stock up though and grab a table at the Sunday morning Craft sale...I'll have to see how things progress.

May 2008 be the best year yet for all of you folks reading this that I know and don't know!!!

Blessings to you and yours!