Promised Pictures

So today will be a dual posting day, I know shocking isn't it. ;-) First I'm going to post some pictures that I have been promising to post for a very long time then I'll do an update post. :-)

Ok so first things first, here's a picture of of Christmas tree from this year, (well I guess its technically last year now isn't it lol.) This is one of the trees I had to jam in my car on Black Friday since I wasn't bright enough to take the boyfriends truck with me. And no this is not the one in the previously posted picture that was hanging out of my trunk, I ended up taking that one back, and I used the truck this time ;-).



Second up on the promised picture list is a picture of how my lovely bf wrapped my Christmas gifts. He's so incredibly crafty and clever :-) He actually went to Micheal's and spent some serious time there finding the right accessories for my gifts, (though true I'm not so sure he'd like me using his name, Michael's and accessories all in the same sentence, good thing ya'll don't know who he is ;-)). One lesson he did learn this year though is glitter is not always a good thing ;-) The glitter from the netting was ALL OVER the room he used as his "work area" and also all over my house lol. I didn't mind though.


Third and Fourth on our promised pictures list is two pictures I took of the laptop my bf made me when he realized the one he got me for Christmas wasn't going to be here in time. Like I said he's crafty, clever little bugger ;-). The real one actually came early, I got it two days before my birthday, yay! It's a Dell Inspiron 1525 and its blue and super awesome :-) if you want to know anything else about it, like RAM, hard drive space etc. you need to speak to the Geek in the family ;-).


And last but not least, I decided to throw in a Bonus picture since I've waited so damn long to post the other ones, this one is an added bonus. It's a picture of our two Cats Lex and Lana in the top of the cat tree they have. Usually they fight over who is going to sit in it but this time Lana stood her ground and wouldn't budge because Lex decided to bully her. The result was a very awkward picture of the two of them.



Ok, so that does it for the promised picture post, wow say that three times fast, on to the update...

Hello 2009

The rest of the Christmas follow-up visits went well, and New Years was awesome as usual, (check out the videos from New Years Eve Co-Optimus bites the dust is my fav :-) ) After New Years we had our parents and his parents over for a visit which was nice, always nice to have family come over, makes the house more homey. Now I'm just waiting until Wednesday so I can take down my Christmas tree and decorations, (we never take our tree down until after Russian Christmas January 6th), then I can put up my Valentines Day decorations and get ready for my birthday :-). I can't wait for my birthday this year I dont know why lol, no one wants to be a year older. I guess it just means I'm that much closer to getting married lol. We're not engaged, yet, but we did agree on a date 10/10/10 :-) I think its pretty nifty ;-), we'll see if that time comes around if we have enough money for a wedding lol. I guess that's really all for now nothing new really, same stuff different day, back to work tomorrow, yuck! :-P

Tis the Season to Be Busy

Wow ok, so it's been almost a freaking month since I updated. I guess the holidays chewed up most of my free time and they are not even over yet. Ok so let's recap. The pictures that the cat took with his collar were, let's just say, shitty. All of them were dark and/or blurry except of course for the one of me in my underwear, eek! So the camera went back to the store and the mystery of a Cat Day Afternoon will have to remain a mystery, at least until they develop a camera with a flash and image stability for the cat...hmm....new invention idea ;-).

Any who, all in all I had a really good Christmas! Our families were good to us, we got a new Grill from my Parents and a Flip camera from my Grammy, His Parents got us a Shark Steam Mop and gave us money towards our new post light for outside our house. Mr Claus was really good to me this year :-) I got a new laptop, which thanks to the genius people at Dell won't be here until 1/26/09. But since my laptop wont be here until later, the bf constructed me one out of card board, man is he creative. I'll have to post some pics of it and the tree and stuff maybe this week. Let's see what else did he get me, oh! he got me Across the Universe :-) and a talking Hoops and Yo Yo date thingy for my desk at work, gosh those Critters are so funny. So needless to say I have a great Hunney who totally spoils me :-).

New Years is right around the corner and I have a TON of stuff to do. I have to get together with my one friend and finish making my other friends Christmas present, then make my food for the New Years party we're going to (Taco Dip and Chocolate pretzels with M&Ms), then bake the pumpkin and apple spice breads I got for New Years Day when his family and my family come over, gosh this should be a busy busy week. I swear with all this hustle and bustle my birthday better be a nice quiet weekend :-).

Thanksgiving Holiday and Black Friday Review

Thanksgiving was pretty good, a little hectic and short but good nonetheless. I got all the food made i sought out to make, always a plus, and everything turned out pretty good! We went to my parents Wednesday night to help my mom prepare since she screwed up her back. We spent the night there on the world's most uncomfortable air mattress, then got up and had breakfast and were on our way to his parents for dinner. We ended up staying there until after midnight playing rockband and hanging out, always fun. I got up at 4 am to trudge out in the cold for those few black Friday MUST HAVE deals, and yes I did go alone. The bf ended up getting sick, he came down with a pretty bad cold the day before Thanksgiving and by black Friday he was full blown sick and miserable, poor thing. So needless to say he wouldn't go shopping with me on black Friday, not that he would go with me if he was feeling good but even less likely with him feeling like crap. Getting a real Christmas tree was also outta the question since the bf was so sick, so we, or should I say I, opted to get a fake one on black Friday.

So off on my merry way to the stores I went. I only went a few places for a few choice things, I went to staples for the TomTom for my parents for $100, and to Lowe's for the $60 pre-lit 6.5 foot tall Christmas tree, a $30 air pump and a $47 inflatable Frosty the Snowman, then it was off to Home Depot for their $50 7.5 foot pre-lit Christmas tree. After that I was home bound but not after I learned a few valuable lessons about size, cars, and phone chargers. Note to self: 7.5 foot tall tree, even dismantled in a box, does not and i mean NOT fit in a little Toyota Corolla. I don't care how good you are and shoving things in trunks and making them fit, sticking them out windows/sun roofs, folding seats down to make more room, when the box is longer than your car is wide, you = screwed. That is were lesson #2 comes in phone chargers, although good tools to charger your cell phone on the go, have a dual purpose. They work really well in a pinch to tie down your trunk that is holding a big ass tree in your car so you can drive 3 miles home.

I'm still not sure how I made it home with out the tree being splattered all over the road. I got home about 8am, just in time for the bf to get up and need taking care of cause the poor guy was really sick. So I tended to him and took a little nap, then got up and went to get us lunch. We spent the rest of the weekend on the couch watching Netflix movies on the Xbox, totally awesome btw, and doing not much of anything else.

This past weekend we went to go see Brian Regan live for the bf's birthday, and let me just tell you how freaking awesome it was. That man is so effin' funny. On Sunday I went grocery shopping and finally got my tree decorated. It was a hard choice between the 7.5 foot one and the 6.5 foot one but in the end the nicer lights on the 6.5 foot tree won. The bf, the wonderful man that he is, made me a little platform for the 6.5 foot tree to sit on so it looks bigger, yay! So now the tree is not only up but decorated, all I need to do is get the lights in the windows and we should be good, hopefully that will happen before Christmas, but I can't make any promises.

My Christmas shopping is almost done, I just need an idea for the bf's dad, gosh men are so hard to buy for, then i should be good. I was out shopping last night for gifts for my mom from my dad, crazy i know, and I picked up a toy for the bf, lol. We got a mini digital camera that clips on the cat's collar so when he's nosing around the house during the day, we can see what kinda mischief he's getting into lol. Once i get the pictures from it I'll post some on here :-). Not too much going on this weekend, just dinner with the parents, bf, bf's parents and brother for the bf's birthday but other than that a pretty quiet weekend. Maybe over the weekend I'll take some pictures of the tree and the lights outside and post them with the pics i get from the cats collar....hmm....thats an idea :-) Let's just say I will not be posting the lovely picture the cat took of me this morning in my underwear getting ready for work, as much as I tried to avoid him while naked the sneaky little bastard found me...grr...that will be the first picture deleted cause no one wants to go blind. :-)

Bring On The Holidays...

I definitely need more time in the week to update my blog :-) less work more play. So I was able to get pictures of most of the stuff I want to sell on eBay but now I'm thinking maybe I'll sell some on craigslist and save on S&H, who knows. I have so much to get rid of though, CDs, TONS of Books, Barbie Dolls, Porcelain Dolls, Movie Memorabilia, an Organ, furniture, sandwich maker, buffet set, cooking utensils, etc. There's honestly too much to list. I think the books and CDs will most likely end up on Half.com and the rest will start on eBay and if it doesn't sell craigslist it is. See? I have a plan, well some what ;-).

My goal would be to get most of this stuff sold and out of my house by the end of the year but that won't happen. I want to get my house organized and completely straightened out so maybe next year for the Holidays I can have them at my house :-). This year we will be going to the bf's family celebration for Thanksgiving and hopefully my parents and my grandmother will be joining us, we shall see.

Speaking of holidays, I have so much to do to prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas!!! I have to start getting together the ingredients I'll need to my side dishes, homemade dinner rolls and coleslaw :-) yum yum yummy. I have to make our holiday greeting cards so I can order them and mail them out right after thanksgiving, I have a really cute pic of the bf and I from our friends wedding in Vegas this year :-). My Christmas card list is pretty up to date and my gift list is concise, I got a few gifts already and don't have many left to get, wOoT!! :-) It makes it so much easier that half the family isn't talking to one another, what a great money saver ;-). We need to go get our Christmas tree and get our decorations out and up.

We have a fun filled few days of traveling around Christmas. Christmas Eve is with the bf's family this year and Christmas day is with my Parents. Wouldn't be so bad if they weren't 70 + miles away from each other lol. Oh well, it wouldn't be the holidays with out travel :-). And the only thing the bf has to do to prepare for the holidays is to buy me something pretty :-) I'm not high maintenance, honest. ;-)