The Weekend before Christmas Weekend!

Haven't had much time to be on here lately. Lots to do at work, then when I get home even more to do.

Christmas shopping and wrapping is almost complete. I have one gift left to buy and wrap and I'm done. I ran out of tape the other day in the middle of wrapping. It was quite sad, I had been wrapping for 2 hours straight and wasn't really sick of it, I was on a roll! So that forced me to stop.

I finally got a new hair cut. I'm excited. It's been like 3 years with the same hairstyle. That is definitely not fun. I'm still figuring this hairstyle out, it looks good though.

Yesterday was the end of the beard growing competition at work. Shannon and I judged it again. We made a couple modifications to the judging scheme. This year we gave away small ribbons for the best in each category: rugged handsomeness, length, thickness, and resembles a sasquatch. Blair won the last category. We made them all buttons and ribbons with the category that we won. Also we took the trophy away from last year's winner and reconfigured it so that we could keep engraving names on it and pass it around to the over all winner. We had to re-glue the beard back on the trophy too, but it shouldn't come off again. Alex dropped out of the contest early, he had to shave his beard to go to a funeral. So yesterday he came around with a bribe, a cookie and an orange and link to this blog. I've never been one to not accept a bribe, so we made a new category last minute. I made a ribbon for him out of stray office supplies for the "Alex Bearded Spirit Award". The ribbon had a fake beard and mustache glued on that I made out of sharpie pen and a post-it. It was pretty sweet, and Alex looked surprised. We held the award presentation at Fuddruckers, where all the guys also decided to have an eating contest at the same time. They all tried to eat 1lb burgers. Kerry ate a 2lb burger in less than 10 mins! It was inhumane!

The Christmas party rocked this year. We had lots of fun and check out the pictures on the right, they tell the story better than me ;)