They should have sent a poet...

Its only the produce area at Cub Foods, but to my dull grocery eyes it was a sparkly solar system.



Earlier that day we had gone out to a nature learning center to visit Santa (who incidentally knew all about the pig riding Julemand and Nisse). After which Rich and I went to a ... restaurant. We had an assortment of chicken wings at Buffalo Wild Wings. I also had a lovely looking bloody Mary.

I don't quite know what the server girl thought of me when I had trouble responding to her "would you like BBQ, Ranch, or blue cheese dressing with that" question. Oh yeah - salad dressing, I'm starting to remember now...but to her, I just barely managed to mumble out "b-b-blue cheese please".

We were at the grocery gathering stuff for Rich's turkey brine and bake. Although we cooked that big-ol turkey for the Expat Thanksgiving, we restrained ourselves at home and didn't nibble on it. We also didn't get to keep any leftovers. So we still hadn't totally had our turkey fix for the season.




I've finished up a few presents that I had hanging out there. I picked up a six pack of beer to go with the cozies I knit in Gopher colors for a brother in law.



And I "finished up" some fabric fridge frames that I'm also giving out as gifts. From Denmark I brought the cut-out cardboard *frames* and online ordered the photo prints. And here I picked up the fabric, felt, glue, magnets, and photos...and assembled it all. I think they turned out pretty good, considering I rarely do crafts. But I Took the Handmade Pledge and there was no turning back.



From my earlier wish list:
I haven't taken a hot bath yet, but we went swimming yesterday and I spent some nice time in the bubbling hot tub.
I still need to (and definitely will) hit Chipotle. With the below zero weather (in F), the salad bar at Byerly's isn't calling me so much anymore.
And we've had a good snow storm along with daily doses of sun.