Why is it that last week, Christmas was two weeks away, and this week, Christmas is now? We're having our office party tomorrow. Luckily I work at a pretty relaxed place, so I could leave early to come home and make my contribution for our practically daylong eating festival. I made the toffee that I've mentioned before and foolproof fudge. I'll get it up on the recipe page sooner or later, just too tired tonight.

I ran out to World Market, formerly Cost Plus (WMfCP) earlier this evening to get one more present for one of my co-workers. We each draw five names and exchange gifts. This may seem strange to some who work at larger corporations, but we are currently at fourteen staff. When I started, way back when, there were only five of us and we all exchanged gifts with one another. Now, at that point, there was a two dollar per gift limit, we've since moved it up to five dollars. It's a fun time and we have some really excellent shoppers on staff who ferret out the most fabulous gifts, this is not a crap exchange folks. Geez, what a tangent, I started out talking about (WMfCP) and all of the great stuff I found and now I'm all on about how we exchange gifts at the office. Yawn!

Anyway, I found some great stocking stuffers for Sweetie at (WMfCP) and the last gift for the exchange tomorrow, I got the last bottle of Penfolds Bin 389 - and excellent Australian Cabernet Shiraz blend that I find (WMfCP) has the best price on - $18.99 a bottle, now in general, this is more than I would normally spend on a wine, but for the holidays, or any even semi-special occasion, this wine is well worth it. You can tell I'm tired since that was the mother of all run-on sentences. Needless to say, I found lots of great stuff, and now I'm exhausted, though I have tons more to say. At least I've got material stocked up for tomorrow. ;-)