1. I am 28 years old and I still believe in Santa Claus! I believe in the magic of Christmas.



2. I made scrambled eggs last week with out using my cookbook! Whoo-hoo! Go Missy!



3. I also successfully made a home-made grilled cheese sandwich last week!



4. I pre-heated the oven one night last week with out checking to make sure that it was empty and it's a good thing Dave reminded me to check because there was a pan of brownies covered with tin foil in the oven! That could have been bad! When will I ever learn?!?!



5. I am so excited because we (and I use the term "we" very loosely, so loosely that, "we," in this case, solely means Dave) only have the exercise room to paint and then the whole inside of our house will be painted!



6. Our guest bedroom is actually starting to look like a bedroom! It's painted and the bed is set up and ready to use! That's so exciting!



7. I had our down comforter cleaned, it is dry clean only (Butler Cleaners is the best, btw!). I washed the duvet cover so it was ready for the down comforter, put our new pillows on the bed with clean pillow cases, climbed into the duvet cover (you have wiggle your way into the duvet cover in order to stuff the down comforter in it and, it was at this point that I asked Dave if the quirky way I do things amuses him, to which he replied dryly, "Sometimes."!) and got the down comforter all squared away in the duvet cover...that's actually quite a feat. Then, I crawled into our winter-prepped bed and basked in all its glory! I felt as though I was warmly wrapped in soft clouds while drifting off to asleep. The next morning was the hardest morning ever to get out of bed because I was so comfortable! I love down comforters. They're so soft and warm and, well, comfortable!



8. I made a collage of Lake Tahoe pictures and bought a frame for it. I plan on hanging it above my bath tub. Dave asked me why I have not hung the picture yet. I could not believe he was asking me this! Does he not know who I am?!?! This is the girl that needed her grandparents to help put a new mop sponge on a mop. This is the girl who accidentally backed under a rotating ceiling fan with the mop sticking straight up, while trying to get the new sponge securely in tact only to have the mop get knocked by the fan and bang her right in the head, which caused a lil' tantrum that involved repeatedly banging the mop on the floor...thank goodness she was home alone. This is also the girl, who when trying to put a stool together accidentally screwed through the part of the stool that you're supposed to sit on...I still don't know how or why that happened! So, when he asked me why I had not hung the picture I replied honestly, "Because I don't know how (to which he laughed, but I just kept talking) and I don't want to try and put a big hole in the wall or worse, some how make the wall fall down! So, I'm waiting for you," I told him (which made him laugh harder...but he knew it was true!).



9. See, my life is full of Missyisms!



10. I don't have a 10; but, 7 and 8 were so long it makes up for it!