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I have so many things I need/want to do and I just cannot seem to fit them all in during the day. I would cut back on sleep but I am one of these people that cannot function properly on a mere 4 or 5 hours of sleep. Even with 8 hours of sleep and the proper dosage of iron pills as prescribed by my doctor, I am still tired. That is mainly due to the almost non-existent iron in my body (I have severe iron- deficiency anemia and my body cannot hold onto iron which means I have no iron reserve and am always tired). Anyway, I need a few extra hours during the day to get everything done. I really envy those who can go! go! go! with only a few hours of sleep. Anyway, it’s almost 1:30am and I should have went to bed a few hours ago. The cats have been reminding me in a not-so-subtle way that they too are ready to hit the hay. Goodnight all!

January

• Went to Ohio for a late Christmas dinner with my Dad, stepmom and stepbrothers.
• My Nan (grandma) passed away on the 17th. I miss that old, perverted woman so much and there is not a day that goes by that I do not think about her.
• My grandpa who lives in Ohio passed away on the 22nd.

February

• Bought my husband a WoW Alliance ring for Valentine’s Day.
• Had the best Valentine’s Day I had had in about 4 years.

March

• Celebrated Mike’s 32nd birthday.
• Battled a major cold for several weeks.
• Started a vegetable garden.
• Became addicted to the mind numbing reality show The Jersey Shore.

April

• Celebrated my 31st birthday.
• Started the Couch-to-5K.
• Celebrated Raven’s 14th birthday.
• Bought my first pair of running shoes.
• My uncle passed away.
• Celebrated my Mom’s 53rd birthday.

May

• Fell in love with the TV show Twin Peaks.
• Found the house we wanted.
• Watched The Hangover 2 twice in the movie theaters.
• Celebrated Nan’s birthday with cake. This was the first birthday she celebrated in heaven.

June

• Cut down on how much pop I drunk, replacing it with water.
• Seemed like we would not get the house.
• Had a mini breakdown due to stress.
• Found 2 kittens outside and started taking care of them.

July

• We got the house!
• Closed on the house on the 14^th.
• My cousin Daniel towed my car for me to the family mechanic so the break lines could be fixed.
• Began working on the house.
• The girl kitten we found outside in June came up missing. We don’t know what happened to her.
• Photographed my stepbrother’s wedding.

August

• Spent half the month working on the house.
• Began getting the new kitten (who we named Nefarian)use to begin indoors and around Jedi and London.
• Moved into our home on the 18^th.
• Raven started high school.

September

• Still getting settled into our home.
• Photographed my stepbrother’s reception.

October

• Raven went to her first high school dance.
• Celebrated Halloween.

November

• Had a movie night at my house we my Mom.
• A major client of mine reduced their work load and our finances took a BIG hit.
• Started having bad headaches on the left side of my head that continue to this day,
• Went to my Sister-in-law’s baby shower.
• My Dad told me he is going to try to move back to WV!
• Celebrated Thanksgiving.

December

• Me and Mike celebrated our 10^th wedding anniversary.
• Kept remarking about how it does not feel like Christmas.
• Celebrated Christmas.
• Took maternity photos for my sister-in-law.

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.

Well, I completely failed NaBloPoMo several days in a row. And I have no excuse besides beginning busy and just not feeling in the mood to blog. Raven has been sick this whole week. Poor girl has a week off from school for Thanksgiving break and she has to spend it sick and stuck in the house. Not that going outside is much fun. It has been cold, rainy and gloomy most of this week. It has been raining so much that nearby rivers, streams and creeks have been flooding. Our basement is even a little flooded but nothing we can’t deal with it. On another note, today has been spent making mini pumpkin cheesecakes. We typically go to different family member’s homes for Thanksgiving dinner but with Raven being sick, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. But my awesome family is going to fix us plates and bring over some food so we can still have some Thanksgiving food without me having to cook.

I’m not a huge Twilight fan (I’m more of a Harry Potter girl myself) but I have watched all the Twilight movies so far (and bought them on DVD) and am wanting to watch Breaking Dawn. I liked Twilight and New Moon but did not care for Eclipse one bit. I thought it was boring beyond belief. However, I have recently developed a newfound respect for the actor who plays Jasper (Jackson Rathbone). I saw him on the Today Show the other morning without all that stupid Twilight makeup and all I can say is OMG! He so freaking hot! Just to give you an idea of what he looks like, here is a picture:

Anyway, tomorrow is Raven’s last day and then she is off for Thanksgiving break. She cannot wait and neither can I. I like the idea of not having to get up at 5:50am!