Never let a madman loose with your camera...

or this is what you'll get! We had our annual Christmas Party last night and my friend Brad was using my camera all night. These are some GREAT video's and I had so much! I'm so glad everyone could make it. I'm going to try and load the video up thru Youtube, because Blogger isn't accepting them. I am not sure why :(
Anyway - it's been a good weekend but busy. I bought too much food too. There was sooo much left over last night. I'm not sure what to do with it all. I gave so much away too. I have stuffing and mashed potatos left and a little bit of pulled pork. That dish was a huge success for making it my first time. I used a Rachael Ray North Carolina recipe and it was DELISH. Only when I tasted it - it was a little too bitter so I added 1 bottle of Jack Daniels Brown sugar BBQ sauce and it was even YUMMIER! If you want the recipe let me know and I'll post it here.
Its gotten pretty warm here - it was over 45 degrees today. I love it, but I hate it because I just know the cold weather is coming and it's going to be BITTER! My family has some tough decisions to make in the coming months. We need to consolidate some bills. My car will be paid off in 2 weeks and we are cancelling our services with Verizon and Direct TV. It'll cost me $175 to cancel, but between the car payment and the verizon services we'll save $375 a month. That is going into savings and onto my credit cards. With the price of gas coming down, I am now saving about $25 a week in gas which helps a lot too since Groceries went UP and haven't come down in the past two years. Many people are feeling the pinch in the economy and I figure we need to prepare ourselves for whatever may come in the next 6 months so I'm doing some cutting back now.
This video is taking forever to load. I'm sorry about that! How bout some pictures instead? Here are some "fun" ones of me last night when Brad had the camera in my face...

So do I still look "Gaunt" mom? Nobody pay attention to the amount of mashed potato's on my plate...lol YES I did eat them ALL and they were GOOD...rofl Oh and Mary beth made the best Black forest cake for me - completely from scratch. She even marinated the cherries at home in a special liquor! It was sooo good and rich and exactly what I wanted. YUM. Yeah so I'm totally back on plan now - and will be losing another 2lbs this week. Here's hoping!