Christmas & Sushi

Hello Folks,

It's the day after Christmas, and I am so glad that's over! Hey, Hey, no Bah Humbug here, just friggin tired! Picture this: Rob comes home to pick me up on the 23rd the day before Christmas eve, and I have already been to the store, taken care of Connor, and cleaned the house etc. You get the picture. I'm tired. He says to me, oh we only have a few things to get. I'm thinking, me and him shopping, and stopping to get a bite to eat, since I have only had a nibble of food around 11am.

No such luck. 5 stores later, I'm dragging myself around, and Mr. Christmas Chicken is basically 10 steps ahead of me! Come on hurry up!!! I sqeek out the word, I think I'm going to faint, as we begin our last voyage through the Albertson's grocery store! I don't even get the cart to hang on to before I go down! But alas, I see Sushi, Fresh made (I'm sure this morning and this was this evening now around 7:30 pm)and I make a bee hive for it! Yep, if I can get the wrapper open, nothing is going to stop me as I hunch over my open package of "fresh" sushi and ahhhhhhh alas food!! I glance up to see a look of complete horror on the face of Rob. His eyes are huge, and I glance around protecting my 'kill' as if someone any second would tell me to "PUT THE FOOD DOWN, BACK AWAY FROM THE FOOD!" Nope, not me! I proceded to down 3 California Roll slices and take a deep breath. By this time, I can see Rob turning the corner towards the meat aisle and the cart is on two wheels!

He's completely mortified! I, now with about three morstles of food for fuel catch up with him. He says to me, "What the hell are you doing?" all the while still looking at me like I have committed a murder straight in front of the sushi station, right there on Christmas Eve, Eve. "HELLO, I told you I was about to pass out, from not eating!" Rob quietly looks around and says to me. "Only fat people eat while they are grocery shopping!" WHAT?? REALLY? I started laughing like a hyeana, right there and of course he was mortified again. I didn't go straight to the cookie asile and grab a bag, tear into it and begin a trail of crumbs!

I get this thing called hypolycemia. Effects can range from vaguely "feeling bad" to seizures, unconsciousness, and (rarely) permanent brain damage or death. I know I was close to a seizure, unconsciousness and permanent brain damage for sure!!! Ok... maybe I already have a bit of permanent brain damage, so let's just skip that one and go to unconsciousness. Yes the cookies would have made a huge difference, because you need a large and quick dose of carbs, when you get to the hypoglycemia stage, my body knew this because I instantly craved the sushi when I saw it!! So I figured the sushi was right there, easily accessible and fairly easy to eat without someone running away from me mortified and such!

Well we finished the shopping and came home, and yes I climbed up the stairs one at a time, and on all fours!!

Into bed to begin dreams of who know where my brain will take me tonight!

Christmas Eve was the next day, and I worked my tush off! We had TONS of food, which included Lobster tails, Shrimp, Beautiful Clams with Linguini, Cod, the best mushroom recipe ever, and tons of Noshes! My dad and mom Jacquie came over as well as Dale and Stacy and the 4 kids. Coco, Connor, Bear, Boo (who had to work till 9) Rob and I and Grama Jojo had a nice night. We ate a lot, and talked a lot, and just had a blast.

Christmas day we got up and had some bagels and cream cheese and Lox with eggs etc. We then opened our gifts which were so nice to see. Berto and Coco got a lot of the Fiesta ware they wanted, Ray got a new Cell phone, and Uggs as well as Boo getting a new GPS guidance system for her car and Uggs too! Everyone got Uggs! (except the boys)

We went over to Steve and Sheryl's for dinner with Michael and Ben and his girlfriend Alex. We played Just Dance 2 on Wii, and it was hilarius!! Had a few bloody mary's and some wine.

The menu was traditional pasta, with sausage and meat balls, it was very good! Steve worked his butt off for the meal, and Sheryl did with the table setting and the decorations. Good work!!

It was very good, but we stayed too late. I was totally wiped out. I am always the designated driver and by 11:30 I wanted to cry I was so tired. We drove home, all happy and wiped out but thankful for such a good time!

Mom stayed with Aunt Sheila for Xmas day, she was with us in the morning to open gifts, and then was over to Janine's to watch the dogs, as they were in NJ.

That's about it! So much for Christmas....Bring on the new year!!


Love to all!!

Stacy