The week in a nutshell

Well friends, it is New Year's Eve and my week off from work has sadly come to a close. I had such high hopes to get a lot more done than I had. On Monday, I managed to get the tree taken down in the living room and packed up the ornaments to store back up in the attic. I usually leave the tree up until the week after New Year's but since I will be back to my grueling mandatory overtime hours when we get back this coming week I will have little time for myself to do much else. However, I still left a few winter decorations out and about the house.

On Tuesday, I finally colored my hair - it was much needed. And, after a couple of frustratingly unsuccessful days attempting to find a pet groomer in my area who will actually groom our cat, Lady Tabitha, I was finally able to get an appointment for her on January 10th with the help of my friend, Meg's referral. MANY THANKS to her for saving the day.

Between my husband doing his usual "in and out" of the house routine as always because that is unfortunately the downside to his mobile job and the holiday family commitments, I did not manage to get near the things accomplished this week in the house as I had planned to - oh well, that's life.

On Wednesday, I was in the rare mood to cook dinner and so I made  Chicken Cacciatore with a side of spaghetti. I saved some grilled chicken for Chester, our outside guest who devoured it. I figured it was his early New Year's dinner ...

I did not actually leave the house the entire week except for last night when I met up with my sister Aurora Skye and her hubby for dinner at Flanagan's Pub ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us!

As for today, I will be cleaning the house and then picking my mom up later on in the day to bring her back to my place to spend New Year's Eve with us and the kitties until tomorrow. We will most likely just be chilling out in the iving room watching "Rocking Eve" or something of the like until the ball drops on Times Square. Nothing very exciting, mind you. As you can see, the cats have a head start on us ...

And last but not least, I figured I would add a Fun Friday vid clip to make you smile! Happy New Year's Eve all - stay safe and warm!

The Monkees- Mike Nesmith as The Princess ... lol