{"id":706,"date":"2008-12-15T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:36:46","slug":"hello-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/hello-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy Monday ahead, and I am debating one more cup of coffee before I drag myself to the gym.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3106883837\/santa.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"santa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3065\/3106883837_e57c454356.jpg\" alt=\"santa\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Saturday we went to an all day Christmas party at Andy&#8217;s work.  Only at VS will you see Santa surrounded by massive pics of women in their bras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3106550888\/santa-victorias-secret-style.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Santa- Victoria's Secret Style\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3167\/3106550888_22d2760f2c.jpg\" alt=\"Santa- Victoria's Secret Style\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of one our friends, he took a bunch of these huge pictures home when the office moved.  Needless to say his wife hauled them to the curb on recycling day.  I can only imagine what the recycling guys did when they pulled up.  I am sure they ended up going home with someone.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice party- they did a good job of having stuff there for all ages<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3105736839\/christmas-cookie.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Christmas Cookie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3294\/3105736839_bbb60a048c.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Cookie\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This guy was all over the cookie room.  You can tell how tired he was, look at those dark circles.  There was a tween room with tons of food and drinks and video games, big bouncy things from Supergames, a candy room that was set up like a candy store where you went in and filled a big bag full.  A starbucks room, lots of craft rooms.  The humane society was there with dogs and cats (no, I didn&#8217;t bring home another dog&#8230;) but you could fill goody bags full of treats and toys for the shelter animals.  I did that a couple times.<\/p>\n<p>There was tons of food, musicians, balloon guys<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3105756829\/yum.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Yum\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3199\/3105756829_ab7e19fddb.jpg\" alt=\"Yum\" width=\"439\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Oh and the best part?  They had a spa room.  Lots of moms in there getting massages while their husbands chased the kids.  And yes I was one of them!<\/p>\n<p>We rounded out Saturday with a Jackets game.  We had dinner at Gordon&#8217;s before the game and met some Swedish guys that were somehow related to one of our players Kristian Huselius.<br \/>\nHere he is on Thursday nights game (yellow shirt)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3104115781\/rick-nash.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Rick Nash\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3182\/3104115781_cece8d7e5e.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Nash\" width=\"500\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Thursday night he ended up dancing in the isles with a Swedish flag so I asked him on Saturday if he planned to do it again.  He said &#8220;oh yeah!&#8221; and then offered me some Swedish Fish.  A very cool couple of guys.  And he did dance again with his Swedish flag and a big Blue Jackets blanket that Andy gave him.  Cool guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy Monday ahead, and I am debating one more cup of coffee before I drag myself to the gym. Saturday we went to an all day Christmas party at Andy&#8217;s work. Only at VS will you see Santa surrounded by massive pics of women in their bras. Which reminds me of one our friends, he took a bunch of these huge pictures home when the office moved. Needless to say his wife hauled them to the curb on recycling day. I can only imagine what the recycling guys did when they pulled up. I am sure they ended up going home with someone. It was a nice party- they did a good job of having stuff there for all ages This guy was all over the cookie room. You can tell how tired he was, look at those dark circles. There was a tween room with tons of food and drinks and video games, big bouncy things from Supergames, a candy room that was set up like a candy store where you went in and filled a big bag full. 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