Day 14

Today I had a list of things I was going to get done around the house so it would be awesomely clean when Dave got back in a few days.  Want to guess how much of it got done?  NONE!  I laid on the couch all day and enjoyed every second of it.  I did get off the couch to make lunch though.  There wasn't much in the house that was ready to eat so I got a little creative.  I still had some bruscetta mix in the fridge still form dinner a few nights back.  I mixed some canned tuna into it and let them sit in the fridge for awhile.  I cooked up some sweet potato fries as well.  The tuna was awesome and I will be doing this again. 

 I finally got motivated around 4pm to do stuff.  I went to the commissary and grabbed some fruit for a fruit salad that I brought to a party later on in the evening.  I came home and made the salad and then started on my dinner.  There was food at the party, but I was not going to be eating lasagna.  I made some bison chili and sweet potato fries (I am clearly addicted to these).  Ground bison is about the only meat we have in the commissary that is grass fed and hormone free.  It also costs a pretty penny but I can deal with it.  I modified the recipe a bit because I didn't have everything it called for but it still came out great. 

I took the dogs out for a walk before the party and noticed Jack was limping. I thought he was walking funny earlier in the day but thought he was just sore from running around at the dog park the past few days.  When we got home, I found he had ripped his pads.  I cleaned him up, even thought they looked very clean already, and put some antibiotics on them.  He spent the rest of our time together giving me the evil eye as I kept telling him to stop licking his pads.  I am going to keep any eye on them and hope they don't get infected. 

The Christmas party was really fun and I got to meet a few ladies I didn't know.  This party was for Chief wives only so there were only 10 of us there.  A few of the guys are single and a few have wives that don't live on island.  We played a few icebreakers and then got down to presents.  We did the gift giving Chinese Christmas style.  I was lucky and picked #1.  There was a lot of alcohol going around as well as bath and body works gifts.  I brought a gift certificate to a salon and spa, which I was tempted to steal back, but then decided it was tacky to do so.  I ended up with a super soft blanket and some bath and body works products.  The scent was warm vanilla sugar and it reminds me of jr high and high school.