To Do List

1. Go to Relief Society Breakfast
2. Make amazing Lasagna for dinner
3. Clean apartment
4. Borrow neighbor's table and set an amazing holiday spread
5. Get ready for date
6. Enjoy Date's company, dinner and performance of the Nutcracker
7. Find time to make Jell-O salad.

In all the many things I had to do yesterday, none of of them included: Falling down the stairs and injuring my ankle AGAIN!!! but what did I make sure to do? That's right the one thing I did NOT have time for. So let's recap... I got up and started checking off items on my list but my ankle didn't hurt so I figured it would be alright to go one day without my brace, maybe if I made it through the day I could wear heels on the date. Big mistake. I realized this when my ankle gave out (stupid torn ligaments) and I tumbled down five steps... and boy do I have the bruises to prove it.

Anyway, the Nutcracker was really fun and the little kids they got to dance in it were REALLY cute. I took a friend from my ward and my roommates Jana and Lauren each took a date. It was fun to get all dressed up and have a fancy dinner and a show. I made my Turkey Artichoke Lasagna and we set the table with red and green place mats and linen napkins in green and white. I used my "Company Dishes" (Diane would be so proud), and we even served Martinelli's in Champagne flutes. We set up the tables in the living room under the canopy of lights next to the "fireplace" and Christmas tree. After the show we came back and had pumpkin pie for dessert.

The best part of the Ballet though was the Crazy old lady that sat next to us. Whenever the lights were up and my date and I were talking she would be eavesdropping and break in at certain points. The bad thing was I'm pretty sure she was going deaf because she heard things wrong and always took them in a bad light. So she spent most of the time mad at my date because she thought he was putting me down. I couldn't help but laugh at the look of utter terror on his face that screamed "SAVE ME" She wouldn't stop either. I tried to tell her it was all right that he hadn't said what she thought he said (we were after all only talking about how I was the youngest child and I called myself spoiled). She stopped only when the show started and picked right back up when the curtain went down for intermission. After a while I Nathaniel started just agreeing with her that he was a bad guy or that he needed to do certain things and I think it threw her off course because she finally let it die. I just couldn't stop laughing at that face he was giving and when Nathaniel started to laugh too (because let's face it the situation was hilarious!) she only asked "what's so funny?" and he imploringly looked to me to fix it and said "I don't know, I'm laughing because she's laughing." Poor guy. . . I already made him get dressed up and dragged him to the Ballet and then he has to spend a good half an hour being berated by a senile old lady! I hope he thinks it was as funny as I did!

Today after church I took my jello salad (that I did find time to make) to my sister's house for a second Thanksgiving dinner. YUM. It snowed here a lot this weekend though so driving up there was scary! The freeways were good but the neighborhood streets don't get plowed right away so they were very icy and where they weren't icy they had about 6 inches of snow and my car likes that almost as much as it likes ice. But I was not going to not go because I stayed up late to make that Jello salad after the Nutcracker!