The Husby and I have started a new tradition. We started celebrating birthday week. For his birthday he had home cooked meals every night of his favorite foods, complete control of the TV to watch whatever he wanted or play video games and I did his chores that week.
This week is my birthday week and instead of cooking me dinner every night, the Husby has agreed to take me out to eat!!! :-) Day one of birthday week we went to a little Mom and Pop's Italian Restaurant. It was pretty good, I had linguine with alfredo sauce, scallops, shrimp and crab meat. The Husby had broiled shrimp & scallops with pasta. Not bad for a little Mom and Pop's joint.
Day two of birthday week we went to a little Mexican restaurant near the house. It was fantastic!!! They had the best homemade pico de gallo and pita chips. SO GOOD!! I had a chicken and cheese gordita with Mexican rice and the Husby had steak and shrimp fajitas. That will definitely be a place we frequent. :-)
Tonight is day three of birthday week and I'm not entirely sure where we're going for dinner yet. We got a little bit of snow so we'll see how the roads are later. Tonight just might be a pizza night but I won't complain, as long as I don't have to cook I don't care.
It's also nice not having to worry about doing stuff around the house. The Husby is doing all my chores since it's my birthday week. Lucky for him there's no dishes since I'm not cooking all week. ;-) The week will be ended nicely with a day trip to NYC to see the Lion King on Broadway. The Husby, the awesome man that he is, got me tickets to 2 Broadway shows for my wedding gift and the last show is this weekend! I'm so stinking excited! I had never seen a Broadway show before we went to see Wicked in November. We will definitely be going to see shows more often now, I'm hooked. :-)
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
New Year - New Me - New Baby?
So my last update was on Black Friday as I was about to run out the door to go shopping. Well the holidays came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. The hustle and bustle of the holidays was very overwhelming this year. I don't know if it was because we were so busy with the wedding that I kinda forgot about them and they snuck up on me or what, but they were crazier than ever this year. I hate to say it but I'm actually kinda glad they are over.
I did enjoy the time I spent with my husby, it was our first official Christmas together and it was nice. He got me a super cool retro style kettle popcorn maker. Its counter top sized and super cute, I love it. As far as the rest of the Holiday went, I could have done with out it. I just wasn't in the holiday spirit this year and I just didn't give a hoot.
It's all over now and it's 2011! Woo hoo! :-) I have some really aggressive goals, not resolutions - goals, for 2011. I plan to make this year even better than last year. The husby and I were discussing possibly trying to start a family the beginning of next year (2012) So there are somethings I would like to accomplish before this happens. Having a baby is major life changing decision and it really sucks the life, and money, out of you. My goals for 2011 are to make my life more baby friendly :-). I need to be more organized; there needs to be less clutter in my life and in my house. I need to be in better shape; I know it sounds silly to lose weight to get pregnant but I want to be healthy when I get pregnant and right now I'm just not. I need to know what I want to do with my career; I'm forever job searching and considering other career paths. I need to decide what my career is going to be, whether I stay here, become a party/wedding planner, a real estate agent or a super hero - I need to decide what I want to do so I can start working towards that goal. I need to spend less and save more; I am the WORST person ever with money, if I have it I spend it. I need to work on that so we have money to spend on the baby's needs.
This all kinda counts as being dual purpose, my 30th Birthday is next January so I really want to get my life in order so I can controlling my life instead of my life controlling me and dictating to me what I need to do on weeknights and weekends. Hopefully my new approach to things will get me on a solid path and I can follow through with all of my goals. So far I have a starting plan for each of them:
My Fitness Goal: To lose approximately 40 pounds by 1/15/12
My Fitness Goal Approach: Signed up for Myfitnesspal.com, downloaded Couch to 5k for my iPod and dowloaded some healthy recipes to try.
My Organization Goal: Organize my life and organizing my house
My Organization Goal Approach: I plan to take the house on one room at a time and give my self a reasonable amount of time to get it organized, let's say a month. I know we are really busy people and life happens so I don't think this is unreasonable. Also, I plan to put our Google Calendars to better use to keep us organized and in sync with each other.
My Career Goal: Figure out what I want to be when I grow up.
My Career Goal Approach: Research jobs to find out what I like and what I want to do, what classes/certifications are required, up front costs associated with career changing, etc.
My Financial Goal: Save my money for the baby
My Financial Goal Approach: STOP SPENDING MONEY :-), if there's two things I want I usually just buy them both. Now I'm going to try to choose between them and pick only one, or maybe even none at all. Do I really need this? Will my life end if I don't buy it?
Wow so all that looks pretty intimidating now that I wrote it down...we shall see how this goes....
I did enjoy the time I spent with my husby, it was our first official Christmas together and it was nice. He got me a super cool retro style kettle popcorn maker. Its counter top sized and super cute, I love it. As far as the rest of the Holiday went, I could have done with out it. I just wasn't in the holiday spirit this year and I just didn't give a hoot.
It's all over now and it's 2011! Woo hoo! :-) I have some really aggressive goals, not resolutions - goals, for 2011. I plan to make this year even better than last year. The husby and I were discussing possibly trying to start a family the beginning of next year (2012) So there are somethings I would like to accomplish before this happens. Having a baby is major life changing decision and it really sucks the life, and money, out of you. My goals for 2011 are to make my life more baby friendly :-). I need to be more organized; there needs to be less clutter in my life and in my house. I need to be in better shape; I know it sounds silly to lose weight to get pregnant but I want to be healthy when I get pregnant and right now I'm just not. I need to know what I want to do with my career; I'm forever job searching and considering other career paths. I need to decide what my career is going to be, whether I stay here, become a party/wedding planner, a real estate agent or a super hero - I need to decide what I want to do so I can start working towards that goal. I need to spend less and save more; I am the WORST person ever with money, if I have it I spend it. I need to work on that so we have money to spend on the baby's needs.
This all kinda counts as being dual purpose, my 30th Birthday is next January so I really want to get my life in order so I can controlling my life instead of my life controlling me and dictating to me what I need to do on weeknights and weekends. Hopefully my new approach to things will get me on a solid path and I can follow through with all of my goals. So far I have a starting plan for each of them:
My Fitness Goal: To lose approximately 40 pounds by 1/15/12
My Fitness Goal Approach: Signed up for Myfitnesspal.com, downloaded Couch to 5k for my iPod and dowloaded some healthy recipes to try.
My Organization Goal: Organize my life and organizing my house
My Organization Goal Approach: I plan to take the house on one room at a time and give my self a reasonable amount of time to get it organized, let's say a month. I know we are really busy people and life happens so I don't think this is unreasonable. Also, I plan to put our Google Calendars to better use to keep us organized and in sync with each other.
My Career Goal: Figure out what I want to be when I grow up.
My Career Goal Approach: Research jobs to find out what I like and what I want to do, what classes/certifications are required, up front costs associated with career changing, etc.
My Financial Goal: Save my money for the baby
My Financial Goal Approach: STOP SPENDING MONEY :-), if there's two things I want I usually just buy them both. Now I'm going to try to choose between them and pick only one, or maybe even none at all. Do I really need this? Will my life end if I don't buy it?
Wow so all that looks pretty intimidating now that I wrote it down...we shall see how this goes....
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