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. :-)

Holiday Cooking Fun!!

So cooking/baking went semi-ok last night. I got the rolls done, which is good, they didn't turn out too bad a little small but good. The Coleslaw is so freaking good, so that's a plus. And then there's the Tandy cakes...god I need to learn how to read a recipe. When a recipe says "bake in cookie sheet" don't assume you know more than the recipe and bake it in a 9x12 glass pan, bake it in a damn cookie sheet! What a moron I am. And to top it off, I found out that it is possible to burn chocolate in the microwave and its also possible to catch it on fire. Yeah, baking was not my forte last night. I ended up putting the chocolate on the stove and melting it that way instead. So now I have to make another batch of the Tandy Cakes tonight so I can have some for my parents house and some for the bf's parents house, fun.
I'm still debating on whether or not we should travel to my parents house tonight or tomorrow night. I think if we go up there tonight there is a better chance that we will get out of there at a decent time tomorrow. If we go up tomorrow night I'm worried we might not get out of there until Friday and I don't want to be driving on Black Friday, I want to be shopping :-)
Hopefully I'll get all my stuff done quickly tonight so that we can get up there...wish me luck and
Happy Thanksgiving!! :o)

Not Such a Bad Day I Guess...

So I'm finally getting my car back today after 2 weeks of being in the shop woo hoo! No more rental car! :) once i pick it up ill head home and start working on my dough for Thursday's dinner rolls. Kinda running on borrowed time with those. I have to make the dough let it rise, put it in the pans, let it rise and bake. I'm an idiot for waiting this long, let's just hope I have enough time to get it all done.

Today would be a good day, if we could just fast forward to 4 o'clock. :)

The bf and I have decided to go see my parents on Thursday if they decide not to come down for Thanksgiving. There's no reason why I can't go see them right? So now with the new agenda I have a million things to do before Thursday.

I think after the Holidays are over and the Holidaze is clearing I'll need a vacation :o)

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. ;-)