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Do You Have the Holiday Spirit??

I can't believe we are only 6 days away from Christmas!! It's been a pretty good season so far! I met up with my girlfriends I used to work with at Artisan for a holiday drinks and ice skating at the W Hotel in Westwood. Then the hub and I had the 81st Street Boys and their wives over for an x-mas/hubby birthday/sleep over celebratory party. We ate at a super good French restaurant, Cafe Beaujolais, in our neighborhood which I so can't believe we had never tried before?!? This week has been holiday lunches at work or long lunches shopping for presents. Yesterday, my boss held a white elephant party in his office. He bought all the gifts and watched all his employees fight over them. It was one of the funniest gift exchanges ever! I got a nice bottle of vodka, some bejeweled flip flops, gift certificates to McDonald's, $25 in cash and lottery tickets that won me another $5 bucks. That was in the morning and in the afternoon we had our department lunch which was catered by Carnival, this Lebanese restaurant in Sherman Oaks. The food was so very very good (think chicken and beef kabobs, hummas, babaganoush, falafal (okay I can't spell) salad, and grape leaves, not to mention a ton of good desserts!). Carnoival might just give Zankou Chicken a run for it's money. Anyhow I am so glad to add another great restaurant to the list. I had my very first grape leaf and I discovered I loved them! After the party was more xmas shopping for hubby at the Sherman Oaks Galleria only the best mall in the valley (best because it has most of my favorite stores). Hubby had his work xmas party last night and he tells me he finally got the xmas spirit from listening to a song in his car. He hadn't found it until last night. Our tree is all decorated with presents underneath. The house lights have been strung and even the stockings have a few presents in them!! Been receiving xmas cards and enjoying seeing what people have been up to. I love getting the photo cards. The best is a photo card we received from the hub's friend at work. She dressed all her dogs up for xmas. That card made it to the refrigerator!!! All that is left is some baking!! This coming week should be pretty slow at work with everyone leaving to fly all over the US. On Tuesday we celebrate the hub's birthday. He has to work but we have a dinner planned at a fancy restaurant in Hollywood. One of the girls he used to work with on Lemony Snicket has a boyfriend or finance that is the chef/owner of this restaurant called Animal. I am excited to check it out with my man! Then on Thursday, once i get out of work, it's off to Sanger for Christmas and a holiday wedding. Looking forward to this upcoming week and the week afterward because I don't have to work!! Boy do I ever need a rest from the craziness of shipping a bazillion posters (so glad to have gotten Iron Man 2 and Shrek 4 out the door)! Happy Holidays everyone. Enjoy the holiday spirit!!

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Unknown said…
Still looking for the IM2 posters!
December 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM
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