ben and i had a chance to go "pick out a tree" (artificial from target-ha) a few nights ago and had fun decorating. all the ornaments i brought from home have my name on it somewhere because my mom has been gifting them to me every christmas for as long as i can remember. it was a bit sad taking them from home, but it's also nice to see them on the tree here. all of ben's are store-bought ornaments his mom sent with him, so between the two of us, it turned out pretty well. it's still in some desperate need of an angel on top, but we'll get to that sometime before christmas i'm sure.stella also had fun helping.


















speaking of stella, she's been quite a pill today. ben woke up this morning to a newly-purchased, destroyed wallet. many of its contents were irreparable, but she managed to miss everything important: license, health insurance card, credit card, asbury id, etc. while eating everything not-so-important: borders card, blockbuster card, etc. ben commented, "it's almost like she decided 'i want to punish them, but i don't want to be too mean.'" ahaha. we also went to a movie tonight and when we returned to ben's apartment, discovered stella had eaten the blu-ray remote...i got a tad hysterical when i couldn't find the other battery for a while, but it turns out when she bit into it, she didn't like the taste of whatever was inside. right next to the obliterated remote? her very expensive, chicken-flavored bone. i think we have a dog who feels neglected. i'm looking forward to going to days next week simply so we can spend more time with her. between ben's class schedule and me working at night and sleeping all day, stella has had a lot of alone time lately. we'll be remedying that soon and hopefully we'll have a content pup once again.

until next time,
stace