First Piecing Thread

[Hope4us]

Had a great weekend. My Christmas Party Friday night, W's on Saturday. Her's was at a hotel and her work got it set up so we got a room pretty cheap, so we made a night of it.

W looked absolutely stunning in her dress. And I told her so. Many times. And what she was wearing under it wasn't too awful bad either. Did throw me a bit because she broke this little number out, tags still in place and the first thing that goes through my mind is, did she buy this for OM and just never got a chance to wear it for him?

But I didn't let it affect me. She wore it for ME. And it was hot, damn hot. Had a great night, dancing, talking with coworkers, sneaking away to catch score updates on the Texas/Neb game (yes W was interested too! Man I love her!). And when we finally went back to our room.....WOW.

Went Christmas shopping Sunday afternoon/evening. Had a great time. Got the boys pretty much done. Caught W looking at some gloves at one store and put that in the memory banks. Need to get out without her some time and pick them up for Christmas.

Of course, there's always something that crops up and throws a wrench into things. Sunday night I caught S17 smoking. Now W and I aren't the pillars of lead by example. W smokes and I chew. So I'm talking to S17 about it and told him I'd quit if he quit. So we're going to. I asked him if he'd been smoking since the troubles a couple years ago when I caught him then and he said "yes".

So I go downstairs and am talking to W about it and she asks me if S17 said why he was smoking and I told her he started a couple years ago because it helped calm him down and W just looked at me with her bottom lip quivering and put her head down. So I guess there's some more guilt I'll have to deal with, but it's all good.

Talk to ya all later.