appalation

i am so excigted. yesterday was the company party. it was during the day and sirus came for a little bit. seamus was in preschool so she couldn't make it. santa was there for a bit, but sadly sirus had alreayd left by the time he made his appearance, it was way into sirus's nap time.
the company party is known for the generous raffle that takes place. everyone is given tickets and then each person gets to put their tickets into their choice of drawings. there were some computer games, a few play station 3s, a Wii, some guitar hero 3 and some rock bands. can you tell i work for a game company? there were also some ipods, iphones, nintendo ds's and then some gift certificates for less geeky things, too, like william sonoma, coach and nordstrom. i put our tickets in for the ipod nano, the $500 for the Herb Farm resturant, and for Rock Band. I had already toyed with the idea of getting rock band for eric for xmas, but since its more of a family acitivity since it comes with the guitar, drums and microphone and i have visions of the family rocking out to nirvana and faith no more, i decided that i would get eric something more appropriate for just him. BUT THEN, it was in the raffle and i said what could be more perfect. the guy that runs the company looooves christmas! he finally got to rock band and said that there were 3 to give away - 1 for the ps3, at which point i put my arms in the air and made a big whoohoo noise. so big that he looked over at me wondering what i was doing acting as though i had won even though he hadn't picked the numbers yet, and the other two were xbox or whatever - something we couldn't use. so then he drew the first number, and it was MY NUMBER!! so i whoohooed again and went and picked up my prize!!
then i came home and eric and i at the entire bag of the tastiest kettle corn i have ever experienced. we did wait until the kids were in bed, we didn't really want to share. dude, the kids are going to get to be in our rock band, they don't need kettle corn. AND eric is apparently so excited, even though he didn't realize it, that he dreamt about rock band last night.
twice in the past week people have told me about how they drove in their cars with their little kids (under two) not in car seats. its hard to listen to someone try to tell you how really, its ok. it was only during a snow storm and no one else was on the road, and the other was on the trecherous road to hana in maui. COME ON PEOPLE. luckily everyone turned out ok, but sheesh!!!
spanx. i went and got some. we are going out for new years and i am going to wear a gold betsy johnson dress i got i 2000 but have never worn. it is body hugging. i had actually given it away at one point because i had determined after having the kids i would never be able to fit in it. but now i can. i did just now realize that i think its longer now then it used to be. i think gravity has taken its toll on the knitted nature of the dress and its much longer, but i am ok with that. anyway, i went and got me some spanx because i hear about how they are all the rage. well, yeah, hmm. i don't know. they didnt work for me and made the dress look bad and unnatural. so i will go spank free. okokok, to give the spankx some credit, i got the donna karan version because the sales lade told me that if my dress was at all klingy that the DK would be better. there was no kling, but it wasn't good anyway.
now i am debating going for a run. eric was debating going for a bike ride but easily abandoned the idea when is aid i would go for a run. we are both trying to out laze each other.
we both might win.