Footprints on the Moon

This is the very last Self Portrait Sunday for 2008, can you believe that? I took this picture yesterday before the final Christmas gathering of the year… my shirt says “Just how good do I have to be?” I shared my Christmas gifts in my last post, so apparently I managed to be good enough.

I can’t say I accomplished much this weekend, other than spending money that I shouldn’t. I did a little bit of shopping yesterday morning, then came home and showered. We had our small family Christmas for my mom’s side… the extended family was on Christmas Day, but just the small group of us got together yesterday for homemade Beef and Noodles and exchanging presents.

My big plan for today was to clean up the huge mess that my apartment became last week while I was so busy getting prepared for the holiday. I’ve had a pretty gigantic headache most of the day though, so I haven’t accomplished much besides sitting around and watching movies. I did manage to review my finances to see the damage, and I think now I’ll be looking for small business opportunities to bankroll it! Yikes… between Christmas and a bunch of random indiscriminate spending, my finances aren’t in very good shape. I’m still ahead of where I was last year, but not by a whole lot. I’m going to try and get together a real, concrete, tangible list of goals for my finances, so be looking for that in the next few days.

Well I guess I better think about going to find some dinner… I need to take some movies back to the redbox so I don’t have to pay for them for another night, and I’m not sure I’ve had an actual meal today. Hmmm…

It seems to be a requisite to list the Christmas presents you’ve gotten on your blog… since I’m such a good rule follower *cough* I thought I’d share what I got. I didn’t get an xbox 360, but I think I made out pretty good.

From Dad and Gloria I got the pajamas, slippers, and digital picture frame. Ryan and Ash-lee got me Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmations.
Gammie gave everyone a restaurant gift card.
Mom gave me Wall-E and the money to pay for my Flickr Pro account! And from Grandma I got a sweatshirt, and a second copy of 101 Dalmations that I’ll exchange for a movie I don’t already have.
Sarah got me an ergonomic crochet hook set because I have a cyst in my wrist that acts up when I’ve been crocheting too long.

How did you do? Did you get everything you’d been hoping for? As for me, I’m just glad Christmas is over… I was SO not in the mood for it this year!