Good afternoon. I hope everyone is having a good day. Yes, I'm running behind again, but we're used to that now!! :-) It's been a busy day and I still have a ton of things to get finished. The sun is finally coming out so, hopefully, I'll be a bit more motivated this afternoon. All day yesterday and so far today, it's been dark, dreary and rainy. We had a little over 4.5" of rain yesterday and last night. This morning, it was mostly cold drizzle - yuck!!
Tomorrow is the Holiday Luncheon for my calligraphy guild, so I've been busy preparing for that. We have a raffle and I offered to donate a pen, so I had to get busy and make them... yes, them. I only give away 1, but I make 2 so the winner has a choice, since everyone tends to like a different style. I also have gifts to wrap and food to get ready for the luncheon, since it's potluck. There's also an envelope contest, in which envelopes are decorated and judged. I have one, but won't submit it, since it didn't turn out as expected - they rarely do and I have yet to submit an envelope for the contest. I do have another in progress and if I finish it satisfactorily, I might submit it, but we'll have to see about that.
Other than that, I've been trying to get ready for Christmas. We don't have much as there's only husband, our daughter, her daughter and her son. Christmas got all messed up this year because daughter's ex is taking their daughter out of State for Christmas, so we won't even have Christmas until after New Year's with them... Husband and I will open our gifts on Christmas morning and go out for Christmas dinner. Our neighbors are going with us so that will be nice.
I also found out the other day that my brother, out of state, is in the hospital. He's elderly (more so than me), with some dementia setting in and has/had aspiration pneumonia and an intestinal bacteria. My niece had taken him to live with her, but before she did that, she's pretty sure he'd eaten some questionable food, which could account for the intestinal bacteria.
I only missed one day of walking this week, so that was good. I'm still trying to keep down the amount of food I'm eating and I did actually manage to lose a little over 1/2 lb this week. It's not much and will probably be back tomorrow (don't forget that luncheon), but for today, I'm claiming a loss of 1/2 lb. It felt good to see some different numbers on the scale this morning!!
So that's my story. If you celebrate Christmas, I hope your preparations are going well. If you don't, I hope you're enjoying whatever fun this time of year brings for you.
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~