It’s 11:30 at night, and I still have enough energy to do laps around the house (which is unfortunately out of the question due to freezing rain and sleeping children). So what do I do with all this extra energy? I clean, and then I journal.

Which means this will be a random journal about nothing particularly important. Potential readers, you’ve been warned.

Today was great fun – it started out with intense cleaning, though, because my little sister had a friend coming over, and my mom has this thing about company and clean houses. So I vacuumed, folded laundry, and windexed for a while. I also made this yummy kind of frosting (“vanilla buttercream” is what the recipe calls it) for the cake I baked yesterday, and iced it. Once I’d finished with that, I finally started painting. I’ve been meaning to paint all week, and I’d even gotten my paints/canvas/brushes/towels/gesso/palettes etc. set up days ago. I just hadn’t started yet. I love painting. I’m not particularly good, but I’m not too bad either, and I just like playing around with colors and landscapes and skyscapes. I used acrylics today because I was feeling lazy and didn’t want to deal with oils… but I did miss the smoothness and versatility of oil paints.

This afternoon, my mom and I made veggie lasagna and bread together. I like working in the kitchen with her. It was a kind of mother-daughter bonding time, you know? Then, since my little sister’s friend was still here, I called a good friend from high school to see if he was around, and he was, so he ended up coming over for dinner, too. We had good food and then the six of us played Apples to Apples… does anyone else know the game I’m talking about? It’s great fun when you play it with the right people. Anyhoo. We played Canasta, too. I laughed so much I’m still a little sore, and breathing too deeply hurts. What a crazy bunch of people we were.

So yeah… that was my day. Tomorrow I’m taking my dad out for lunch at a Chinese restaurant, because that was my Christmas present to him – a certificate to go out to eat. I’m looking forward to that, and I’m pretty sure he is, too. So that should be fun. Other than that, I’ve got no real plans for the last day of 2007, which now that I think of it is kind of sad… maybe. Maybe I don’t mind so much. I don’t know…

Oh well, that used up some energy. I could go on, but I don’t have much more to say without opening up a dangerous can of worms, so… ta da! The end.

: )