Month: December 2011

Over the past few months, I have let myself gain 10 pounds. I am not proud of it and am actually pretty damn disgusted with myself. If I don’t do something about it now, I will end up gaining the remaining 50 pounds back and I defiantly do not want to do that. So, I am back on the wagon and am determined to lose the 10 pounds I gained. If I get to my goal than I am rewarding myself with this Firefly shirt (which is one of my all time favorite tv shows) that I have been wanting for awhile now. Once I lose the 10 pounds than I will try to lose an additional 10 pounds and give myself another reward. I am hoping I can get the 20 pounds lost before June because my all time favorite actor the oh so awesome Bruce Campbell is going to be at the Philadelphia Comic Con and since that’s only a few hours away from me I definitely want to go and maybe have the chance of meeting him and making a complete fool out of myself. But I don’t want to waddle in there with an extra 20 pounds on me. So wish me luck!

Monday, I took maternity pictures for my sister-in-law and brother-in-law at the VA park a few towns over. We where originally going to take the pictures indoors at a friend of my sister-in-law’s house but at the last minute it was changed to the park. I was only prepared for an indoor photo shoot so I learned my lesson as far as they saying “always be prepared” goes. Anyway, I don’t know about them, but I had fun. They are constantly having their photos taken on a regular basis (my brother-in-law is a member of the semi-famous/popular Christian band DecembeRadio) and they have a close friend who is a professional photographer. And I am pretty sure the reason why they asked me to take the photos had something to do with a certain family member’s meddling (but that could just be my own personal insecurities since I don’t think they really wanted me to take the pictures and would have preferred a better photographer) but anywho, here are a few of my favorite shots:

Christmas Eve and Christmas day was filled with food, fun and family. On Christmas Eve, we stopped and seen Mike’s mom before stopping at my Mom’s house to exchange gifts and pick her up. The four of us (me, Mike, Raven and Mom) headed down the road down to my Aunt Lois’s house to stuff our faces with pizza, sandwiches (egg salad, chicken salad and ham salad), cheese sticks, crackers, cheese, chips, dip and the like. We stayed until about 5pm and then we dropped Mom off at her house and headed down to Mike’s Dad and Grandpa’s for the rest of the night. Once we got home, all three of us were beat and ready for bed. Even though I took my camera with me, I didn’t take a single picture while we were at family’s. I just wasn’t in the mood to snap some pictures and got sidetracked bullshitting with our family.

We stayed home for Christmas day since we spent the previous two days running around. Raven opened her gifts (manga, various anime DVDs, anatomy book and Japanese demystified book along with little odds and ends), I opened mine (Bored to Death Season 2 DVD) and Mike opened his. Our fuzzy babies also opened theirs (Jedi and Nefarian got a crinkle tunnel and treats while London got a stuffed hedgehog and chewy bones). Raven didn’t brush her hair before opening her Christmas presents so I won’t be posting any of the pictures I took of her opening her gifts. But here are some other pictures.

Nefarian loves playing in bags.

Jedi does not like having a bow on his head.

Nefarian playing in his and Jedi’s crinkle tunnel/cave that they got for Christmas.

Tonight, a truck pulling an open trailer full of people drove up and down the road blasting Christmas music, honking their horn and yelling Merry Christmas. And it was awesome! With the temperatures reaching 60 degrees today and nothing but gloomy and rainy, these people (we think it may be the people from the church at the end of the road but we’re not for sure) made it seem a little bit more like Christmas. So I want to thank those people (though I highly doubt they will read this) for adding some much needed Christmas cheer into what has been a gloomy and rainy day.

So, Christmas is now less than seven days away and I am not even close to being ready. This year, it just seems that the holidays snuck up on me so very quickly. I still have a lot of presents to buy (and wrap. I haven’t even wrapped the gifts I all ready bough yet) and a ton of baking to do! I didn’t even get all my Christmas decorations put up this year! I think the whole buying/moving/getting settled into a new house is what has thrown me off. At least that is what I am going to blame it on. We have lived here since August 18th and I still have stuff in boxes I need to unpack!

Anyway, this week is going to be a busy one. I am planning to finish up my Christmas shopping Tuesday evening with a trip to the mall and Walmart. Raven’s last day of school is the 21st and then she is off until January 3rd.

Well, it’s all ready after 11:30pm and I still have a few things I need to get done before bed. Nighty Nighty.

Thursday (December the eighth) was my husband and mine’s 10^th wedding anniversary (we dated for 6 years before getting married). Opting to stay home instead of spending money, we spent the day watching the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. Both great movies! Mike liked them even though we watched it with the original Swedish language and English subtitles (the only way I will watch foreign moves since I hate HATE English dub). He says he would prefer not to read while watching movies but knowing my intense hatred for voice dubbing (I keep focusing on the lips since they do not match up to the words and cannot pay attention to the movie) he let me have it my way LOL. We didn’t get to watch the final movie in the trilogy though and are hoping to finish it this weekend. Even though we didn’t do anything exciting, I still enjoyed myself and I think Mike did too. Happy Anniversary, Mike! I love you and am looking forward to spending the rest of my life with you.