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2020 has been a hard year, and it was tough for me this week to stay positive. Work is super busy and non-stop, so much so that I had two folks (one on my team, one not) break down in tears this week when talking to me. COVID hasn't let up and I am antsy antsy antsy to go out and do normal everyday things again on the weekends, especially eating at restaurants. And then, of course, it was election week and things were so close and the results dragged on for so long. I was feeling so dejected that I had been distracting myself by watching cheesy holiday movies at night instead of checking online for election results. By Friday, I just felt a big crushing weight of hopelessness and stress and it was hard for me to be in a good mood. 

To cheer up, we decided to start decorating for Christmas early. I know, I know, it feels way too early but decorating the tree to Christmas music playing is something I look forward to every year. For dinner, I spread out a charcuterie board so that I didn't have to do much in the way of cooking, and the girls were off to the races with decorating the tree. I am pretty sure we are the first house in our neighborhood with Christmas decorations up! 


Decorating the tree


On Saturday, we woke up to the very exciting news that the election results were being called. It was super fun to see so many social media posts cheering on our new president-elect and vice-president-elect. My initial response was relief, followed by a little bit of hope that things are going to get better and then my thoughts quickly went to - what should I do to celebrate? More importantly, what should I EAT?!

I had to do a quick trip to the asian market to load up on veggies anyway, and while there, I spied some beef and decided to do beef noodle soup with fresh noodles. It's not quite traditional but the girls like the rice noodles and the beef, and I like the soup so we all win. So, folks, that's what we had to celebrate coming out of the fog this weekend - beef noodle soup with some champagne. 5 star meal, I think!

Beef noodle soup

Here's to you, Madam Vice President!

 

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  1. MWNovember 9, 2020 at 10:02 AM

    Yay! I love this. I've felt the same way about the year, the election results, work, etc. We're going to put our tree up sometime this week, too. And I'm not even a huge Christmas person! But it will be nice to have something festive and happy to focus on.

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  2. WNovember 13, 2020 at 11:22 PM

    Nice way to celebrate!

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