Oh, I gave him a black eye and had to tie him to a tree.

The weather for the past few days has been awful, very cold and rainy. When I walk Sable now, he runs outside, pees, runs back in, and goes straight to his bed. I was off from work today and meant to ride my bike to the library, but it's so cold and wet that I've been staying inside being lazy. I watched The Nativity Story, with Keisha Castle-Hughes (scratch one from my list of young actress films to watch).

On Sunday night, we trimmed our Christmas tree and watched It Happened One Night -- a very touching, funny old movie, classic without feeling dated. The tree I bought is small (4'6") and artificial, but that suites us since we don't have many ornaments. We've never had an artificial tree before; our mom had them when she was a kid and hated them, and she's also obsessed with the smell of pine. I also got a little miniature Christmas stocking for Sable. I'll try to put some pictures up soon.

Sara is celebrating her birthday this Friday. (She'll be 26! OMG, she's, like, so old!) Mom and Adam are supposed to be arriving from North Carolina sometime on Friday night. I don't know how long they'll be in town, but we're all supposed to exchange Christmas gifts while they're here, and I have yet to buy anything for either of them. I don't know when I'm going to; I'll be working a lot for the next few days, because one of my co-workers, who's also my distant cousin, just quit.

Work is okay. I'm slowly getting better at my sales pitches, and the manager I hate is becoming more tolerable.