there is now a basket of previously mentioned hershey's candy on my desk. mmm...

so this week will be ridiculously hectic, but fun--i hope! tonight i have to complete a couple of projects, as well as pick up some scoped-out presents (the lines yesterday were ridiculous!), as well as pick up christmas food & candy (the ingredients for the cake i'm making for the party as well as goodies for the fam's christmas stockings). tomorrow, depending on how ambitious i am, i'll possibly bake a "trial run" of my cake (i'm actually pretty confident, however, so i think i'll just make the one wednesday night), as well as work on some projects--by saturday (at the latest--hoping for earlier), i hope to have everything finished--which means i'll even have a couple of days to relax in stress-free pre-christmas revelry.