Postal Service: Sorry we destroyed and lost your mail

We care.

Half an envelope, redacted for my protection.

A portion of an envelope once containing a Christmas card arrived in my mailbox today. Thanks, United States Postal Service.

A holiday surprise

Handmade social-media ornaments on the Christmas
tree at my desk. Also visible are Weatherbird's
underpants and a monkey wearing a crown.

I just noticed somebody left some awesome social-media ornaments on my Barbie-size Christmas tree! I have a feeling it was Erica. Or Weatherbird.

Features potluck

My plate. Oy.

Thank goodness Holiday Potluck Week is over. Last Tuesday was the features department potluck, and Wednesday was the newsroom potluck. There was so much tasty food, which made me want to nap at my desk.

Tuesday, I contributed a delicious mushroom bread pudding (the brownish pile at the bottom); Wednesday I just ate.

Christmas at the Galleria

Horizontal.

Vertical.

Pickle surprise

Pickles in pouches at Sam's Club

Warning: You cannot unsee this.

What's for dinner?

Semi-homemade.

Tonight, I made fettuccine with shrimp and pesto-cream sauce. Cheese-filled breadsticks by Market Pantry. Neighbor Betsey stopped by and mocked me for photographing it.

Snowy Locust Street

Looking east

Looking west

The view from the roof of the garage. Just moments before these photos were taken, I fell down on the ice in the garage. My bag of Jack in the Box breakfast was unharmed.