Days 19 & 20- The 24 Days of Christmas Miracles Campaign (Or “Stuff It!)

Pops and Grams-The cutest couple in the entire restaurant!

I must apologize. I got out of work on Friday for my TWO-WEEK vacation, and I let my posting duties lapse. So today I have to post for four days, which, while I do like writing these posts, I do not like letting myself get so far behind. Friday’s and Saturday’s Christmas miracles were both related to my finishing my MBA. On Friday night, my family and I went out to Maggiano’s to celebrate the completion of my degree. Now, I don’t know if you have ever been to Maggiano’s. but they have this little thing called “family-style dining.” When you order your meal family style, the whole table picks three appetizers and salads, four main dishes, and two desserts and—get ready for it—EVERYTHING is all-you-can-eat.

Let me just tell you, the nineteenth day of Christmas’s miracle is that neither myself, nor any of my family died while eating that humongo meal! I tried really hard not to stuff myself, but then the baked ziti with cheese came back out and I had just a little more, and, before you know it, I was lying back in my chair like a beached whale. Then, when the dessert came out, I didn’t have any because I was so full I literally thought my stomach would explode like the spaghetti sauce guy in Seven’s if I ate anymore. I thought I was being all good and stuff, but that was before I realized that Maggiano’s sends any leftover food, including dessert, home with you! So, the next afternoon, I just ate a big old honking piece of cake anyway! (It was delicious, by the way!)

Saturday’s miracle is that my diploma came in the mail, so now I have actual real proof that I finished my degree, and the whole thing seems so much more tangible. Now I have to get a cool frame for my diploma. On a side note, my diploma was sent certified mail, and required a signature, but I was not home when the mailman tried to drop it off. I had to go to the post office to pick it up, and there was not a lot of holiday cheer to be had at the post office. Perhaps the customers and postal workers need to begin trying to discover Christmas miracles in their own lives, such as the fact that the automated stamp machine worked, and that you can usually eventually locate your package if you search long enough!