Worked hard all day--9 hours, if you count lunch. It was a potluck holiday party. We were going to have it before Christmas, but it was hard to schedule, so we had it yesterday. And Meredith was there. Yay. We did a white elephant gift exchange, which was mostly pretty fun. I also gave away a few of my presents that I have been hoarding.

Went to the bank in the pouring rain, partly to take Ray to his class after he returned the car to me. He would have had to walk a ways in the wet. Meredith sent me a draft of the grant and I made suggestions which she generally accepted. Maureen from the board, a CPA, met with me and answered some Quickbooks questions--and some end of the year questions. Then there was an operations committee meeting, which went well. Meredith kept saying, yes, I'll handle that, it's my job... kind of fun. I left at 5, even though it was still going on.

It was almost 6 when we got home and my Mom had started supper from one of the recipes I had left lying around. While I was finishing it up, Ray was working, Captain was reading NYT magazine, Mom was resting. It was cold and rainy outside, but we had a fire and it seemed like a pleasant place to be.

Somehow Ray and I ended up watching TV until late in the night. He was correcting quizzes and I was knitting (or un-knitting--I had the wrong number of stitches and went back a ways before deciding I should just decrease 2). And now I woke up before 5:30. Oh, well, weekend will let me catch up.