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12/22/2003 Archived Entry: "It's big!"

We got a new monitor today. We had to seriously control ourselves not to buy the computer we've been salivating over since it was onsale. But we do now have a 15" LCD monitor. It's sooooo much thinner and leaves lots of room on top of our desk. It's taking me some time to get used to and seems awfully bright, but I'm not in the mood to play with it to tone down the brightness. I'll let Chris do that tomorrow. It's nice to have my comptuer back :)

Last night, Tabitha and I went for a walk around the neighborhood to see everyone's lights. We saw some really decked out houses. It was chilly so when we got home I dumped Tabitha into a hot bath. I finished up all my wrapping last night two. Actually, I have two more big items to wrap but won't do that until Christmas Eve. as they make noise so I don't want to put them under the tree yet. Our little tree is just engulfed in all the gifts :)

Tabs and I hit the mall this afternoon so I could try on a skirt I had my eye on. It was so crowded that I'm glad I didn't like how the skirt looked so I didn't have to stand in line, lol. We also went to Target, but since we avoided the toys and Christmas aisles, it wasn't too bad.

Tabitha is currently sitting on the couch vegging to Christmas videos and DVDs. I'm trying to get a bit of motivation to do stuff that needs to be done, but I also have over 300 emails from the last few days that need my attention. Well, *need* may be a strong word, but I'd like to peruse them. Another distraction is I'm less than 100 pages from the end of "The Two Towers" and really want to get it done. I've been reading it long enough for goodness sake! I'm used to reading books in 2 or 3 days, not 2 or 3 months! They've just been very hard for me to get into. They aren't my style of reading, but I can appreciate them. Once I finish the third one, I'll read some of my regular books for a while and then I want to re-read all three quickly just to absorb a bit more that I may have missed the first time through them.