It is so cold and windy out that we decided to stay in tonight.  We were thinking about eating out, but were actually feeling rather lazy.  So we stayed in and cooked up a DiGiorno’s pizza for supper and are going to watch Dick Clark on television and watch the ball drop and call it a year.  This has been a rough year for many people; I hope 2009 is a better one for us all!  With the new president on board in a few weeks, it will certainly be very interesting to say the least!

I think that on the first day of winter everyone should have enough snow to make a snowman!  That would be a great way to celebrate the first day of winter, don’t you think?  We don’t have any snow on the ground around here, though, so I am wearing my snowman sweatshirt today instead, trying to get into the spirit.  It’s a cute sweatshirt that I got as a Christmas gift a few years ago.  It is mostly white, with a snowman’s face on it, with the saying “Just add snow.”  I don’t buy myself Christmasyclothes because I don’t feel that they are practical enough for me to spend my money on them, but other people do give them to me as gifts, so I wear them.  It’s probably a good thing that people DO give them to me, I see so many people wearing Christmas themed clothing that I’d probably be labeled a “Scrooge” if I didn’t wear Christmasy clothes too!

As I mentioned in my previous post, we had to bring cookies to the gift wrapping party.  I brought some home made peanut butter cookies that everyone raved about.  They were easy-peazy to do, so I thought I’d share the recipe with you.  I got the recipe from a lady that I used to work with a long time ago.  She had brought them to an office party and everyone asked for her recipe.  I hope she doesn’t mind my sharing it with you!

Lazy Day Peanut Butter cookies

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

Mix all ingredients.  Drop by spoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.  Do NOT over-bake!

Yes, it is that simple!  The mixture is hard to stir, but there really are only three ingredients!  I hope you enjoy them!

Today I went to a Christmas gift wrapping party thrown by one of my good friends.  Everyone that was invited had to bring a few gifts that needed wrapping and a dozen homemade cookies to share.  We spent a couple of hours wrapping each others gifts and eating cookies.  We had to bring copies of our cookie recipes to share.  I wasn’t expecting to have as much fun as we did, I went there anticipating to be relatively bored, but we actually had a great time!  We listened and sang to Christmas songs and drank hot chocolate and/or apple cider while wrapping the gifts.  Before we wrapped the gifts we had to explain who the gift was for and why we chose the gift for the person.  That made it a lot of fun.  One gal brought some “gag” Grinch boxer shorts for her hubby for a gift.  What a riot!

I was reading an article on the Yahoo News website about a poor woman who was assaulted by her boyfriend, ran away and got into her car and drove across the apartment complex to her grandmother’s apartment, parked the car and fled inside to dial 911 to report the assault to the police.  When she left the apartment she found that her car was being towed away because she had left it with her hazard lights flashing in a “no parking” area.

The tow truck driver is paid a commission to patrol the lot at night and tow away illegally parked cars.  He refused to release the car without being paid his “drop fee” even after the police asked him to release the car for free.  “They” say he is within his rights to demand the drop fee, but I think that under the circumstances he could have seen his way clear to show a little bit of humanity and let the lady have her car back for free.  I am continuously seeing (and reading about) how selfish people are, and I have to say that it really is distressing to see how low the human race is slipping.