Today was my last day at work for the rest of the year, so naturally it was busy. The morning was full of last minute data extracts and finishing up reports, and chasing down email bounce errors, and a whole slew of phone calls related to all of the above. And then the afternoon was full of more phone calls and ‘oh by the ways’, like ‘oh by the way when we get back we’re going to redesign the intranet again’ (eek) and setting various and sundry away messages on my email and my voicemail. I had fully intended to tackle the rest of a large data tracking project I’ve been trying to finish, but either the network, the intranet, my computer, or a combination thereof, was conspiring against me. So shortly after my boss came in to let me know that as far as he could figure, there was nothing else he needed me to finish for the rest of the year, I decided that my computer’s stubborn insistence on freezing up every time I tried to do this one last thing I wanted to do was a sign, and that was it for the year. Woo hoo!

We had pizza for dinner, and we dragged out all the wrapping paper and tape and scissors and had ourselves a little wrapping party on the dining room table. I washed and pinned out my latest finished knitted object. I spent a little time on the phone and online with my dad, helping to get their Christmas present functioning correctly, and chatted briefly with my little sister, but otherwise it’s been a pretty low key sort of evening, sitting here in front of my computer with two cats on my lap, playing Majong, just because I can.

And as an early Christmas present, and also because I feel that when one has discovered a truly delicious high calorie treat, it is incumbent upon one to immediately share that treat with as many people as possible, I give to you the recipe for those amazing lemon curd and shortbread bars I’ve been making practically nonstop all month (recipe includes link to the recipe for lemon curd as well). Enjoy.

Tis the season for Holidailies!