Christmas Eve 2016 (Sat 12/24/16)

• Glasses nowhere to be found by the bed; I'd left them in the garage the night before
• Put together last minute goodie bags with items lying around the house for coworkers, spurred by the thought that I might not be at the museum for Christmas next year and the nagging by mom: "Don't be a Scrooge"
• Work with David: didn't recognize the museum VP but was told by her husband that I look like the type to know what kind of camera the Instagram design is based on (am I hipster?)
• Learned how to use the laminator! Yay for unexpected and slightly outdated skills!
• Less afraid of making announcements
• McD's 2 for $3 chicken nuggets and french fries. BBQ sauce got on my phone.
• Butterfly earrings (matching rustic tone) swapped for silver & sapphire & my RL espadrilles
• Bravery talking to Swatch associate
• Phoebe's Candelight service: cried through the second half thinking about how Christmas is a reminder to show people that you love them and the neglect I've shown the people I love -- the feeling that I wasn't quite in the right company.... and how the comparisons, while enlightening, made me miss St. Joseph and the simplicity of the pageant
• Let mysterious small children feel like princesses by giving them a hand down the stairs in a repetitive motion
• Staircase photos by Daren: heels mess up the heights
• Richmond, a stray shrimp tempura's travels, and not being the baby at Kuru Kuru
• Midnight Mass in the cafeteria (sitting but not experiencing), with the fathers caroling (Tagalog song!), Krista and other voices "concert", and Mary's sarcasm
• Butterfly cookies from David as the snack on the way home from the packed parking lot
• 6:30AM-3AM life