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....

Post Wedding Blues

So it's been about 2 1/2 months since my last post and about 6 weeks since the Wedding, wow time sure does fly.  I know I said a few posts ago that anyone who was thinking about planning a traditional Wedding should just save their money and elope, I was wrong.  Anyone who decides to plan a traditional Wedding don't elope, instead save your money and hire a wedding planner.  I loved every second of my Wedding and as the day went on I was so glad I decided to have the big Wedding, it was so worth it.  Even my husband, yes that's still weird to say lol, said he was very happy we decided to do the traditional Wedding it was so much fun.

The Wedding truly was a blast but it would have been a lot more fun if it wasn't our responsibility to make sure everything happened and on time.  A few things were missed and forgotten about but for the most part I'd say we did a pretty damn good job running the circus ;-)

After the wedding the hubster and I went to Jamaica for our lovely 10 day honeymoon.  It was superb.  It was just nice to be able to go and get away for a while.  We did so much running and planning for the Wedding that on the honeymoon we just sat on the beach for 10 days and did nothing.  We read a few books, went sailing a few times but that was about it.  After we got home from the honeymoon the Post Wedding Blues set in, I got so depressed because I came home with a super ear infection and couldn't hear for a few weeks after.  It took forever for me to get my hearing back and the whole time I was suffering with that I was miserable, I had nothing to occupy the countless hours I spent planning the wedding, we did get a new puppy the day after we got home but even that wasn't helping me get over the Post Wedding Blues.

It took awhile for me to just get used to being "us" again without all the stress of the wedding, without all the crap to do, without all the interaction with my girlfriends and family, it was quite the adjustment.  Once I thought I was FINALLY getting used to it I got this ridiculous cold.  I was out of work for 2 days, would have been more if I had more PTO time left, but I spent those 2 days in bed and on the couch plus the following 2 days (Saturday and Sunday), were also spent wallowing in my sickness.  It sucks because just when I finally get the motivation to get the rest of the wedding gifts put away or start working on a project around the house I get some sort or ridiculous sickness.  I'm sure by the time the holidays are over I'll be back in tip top shape.

Speaking of Holidays, it's 1am on Black Friday morning and I have to go get dressed to head out shopping :-) Tis the season to be spending.

Here's a Picture of our new baby Rufus :-)

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. :-)

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)

Family Matters?

I can't believe freaking November is almost over already?!?!?!?!?! What the heck?!?! I swear it seems as though last week was September and I must have blinked or something and missed October and most of November, yeesh! Thanksgiving is next week already and my parents were supposed to come down to have dinner with me and the bf's family so we can spend a nice big family holiday all together but it seems as though my parents won't make it since they had a fight over where they were going and it ended with them going nowhere. Whatever.


It shouldn't matter that I won't see them on Thanksgiving but it's just weird since this will be the first time I haven't. I guess that's what happens when 80% of your family is fighting and hating each other, holidays get all screwed up. I can't wait for the family feud to be over, but I'm sure once it is there will be another one that pops up. Argh. I'm just getting annoyed with it all so I think it's time the bf and I get married so we can start our own family and just worry about our kids but at the same time I don't know if I'm ready for all that just yet so who knows, I'm just not happy with the crappy family crap right now.


Argh, oh well. I have much better things to worry about than stupid family drama bull-shit, like Christmas presents and how I need to start making those...yeah crap I should order the stuff tonight huh? lol. For now I'll just start working on the gifts I have. Yay gifts!! :-)