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December 28, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
River by Joni Mitchell is probably one of my favorite songs during the holidays but it gets a bad rap because it's slightly on the depressing side... okay more then slightly. I had been meaning to write this post and have it publish on Christmas Eve but time got away from me. I apologize. It is now midnight and Christmas has come and gone and I hope you had a great one. I hope that each of you were surrounded by friends and family and you reflected on the blessings that we most often take for granted.
We have wonderful traditions in our family, ones that I will cherish in my heart forever. My favorite tradition are the ones we do on Christmas Eve. We gather at my Aunt and Uncle's house around 8 and pretty much stuff ourselves with food, but we (about 20) gather around the living room talking and catching up with one another. This will go on for several hours and then at 11:00 pm we start singing Christmas carols and let me just tell you we are a horrible tone deaf family but it's fun. At 11:30 one of us will read Luke chapter 2 while all of us sit silently and reflect on the words that we are hearing, and after the reading we pray.
I hope that this Christmas you each enjoyed your own traditions and your family. I'm going to leave you with the words of my favorite Christian Christmas song* and I hope you read it and really think about the meaning and why we first started celebrating Christmas and why we should celebrate it today.
You can find the history of the song here.
December 26, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I realize that Christmas is right around the corner but I'm just not feeling it this year at all. Perhaps it's because I'm so busy at work, or because I had to rush through my tradition of decorating the Christmas tree, or that I am doing all my shopping online this year (actually that isn't so bad) but I think mostly because it's 80 degrees! I WANT SNOW! I mean is that too much to ask?
I had a very nice dinner party with some people from church on Friday evening and I must say it was a good time. I think I enjoyed it mostly because someone else cooked the dinner and even HELPED me clean up the entire kitchen. Although I think I might want to make a mental note that when making Janet's peppermint cupcakes I should make sure I get the ORIGINAL candy cane's and not get cherry flavored candy canes by mistake. Other then that tiny mistake they were fine and they came out looking nice!
Can we also take a moment to look at Tux under the Christmas tree.
This cuteness has been short lived being as he has broken 2 ornaments in that picture and another one that is not shown. He is now on lock down.
On Saturday night was another Christmas party with a bunch of my girlfriends. We starting out at a friends house for dinner and then at midnight we decided we need to go dancing, and boy did we dance! I haven't gone out like that in a really long time and I will admit it was so much fun. When we first got there there was no one on the dance floor so we just took it over and by the end of the second song the dance floor was packed. I mean wouldn't you get on the dance floor if you saw these lovely ladies shaking their money maker?
I really don't know what is going on with Desaree's hair but eh this is my blog not hers.
Also I'm sure Amanda will kill me for putting up this picture because she is the most reserved out of all of us and this is completely out of character for her. (she's the one on the left)
All was fine and dandy and we were having a great time till this guy started trying to dance with all of us and not succeeding and then he decided to slap my butt. I broke his hand off... okay not really but I wanted to. I actually just yelled at him and said that if he ever touched me again I would kill him. He went lurking off to the corner never to be heard from again thank goodness. It really was a fun time and I went to bed with my ears ringing from the loud music and a smile on my face from having such a great time with a great group of girl friends.
I decided to go Christmas caroling with my church on Sunday evening (something that I was really debating on for reasons I will not mention here and thus why even bring it up... I don't know) and this would prove to be a mistake. I actually did have a good time except for the run in I had with the bushes. It has to be said that I usually drive because I get car sick, this is a little known fact about me that I don't usually divulge to others. I decided to forgo driving that evening since I was the driver the evening before and I was just tired Sunday. I sat in the back of a packed car talking with a friend that I hadn't seen in awhile and cooing over her adorable 14 month daughter that was seated between us. It was about twenty minutes into the car ride that I started to feel a little nauseated and then a little became a lot . It was at the second house that the nausea caught up with me and while they started singing the first few stanzas of Away In a Manager I was throwing up in the bushes behind one of the cars. I'm so classy.
December 18, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Look two post in two days! I'm on a roll. Today was out of control. Remember yesterday how I went home from work because I wasn't feeling well. Right after I wrote that post I went to the bathroom and threw up. Gross I know. I drove home, collapsed on my bed and proceeded to wish that I could somehow open up my brain to relieve the pressure of the headache. I hate migraines.
Yesterday I had planned on decorating my Christmas tree, cleaning my house and making peppermint cupcakes. None of that got done so I woke up early this morning and ran around like a mad woman trying to accomplish all of these things. I also had to be at a meeting at 3 in the afternoon and I had to shower. This is what my day was like
7:00 the alarm goes off and I somehow shut it off when I meant to hit snooze
8:00 my eyes flutter open and I think to myself please don't let it be time for me to get up.
8:05 look at clock, freak out that it is an hour later then I were supposed to get up and throw off the covers of my bed. Which also freaked out Tux who got thrown off the bed in the process of mid freak out.
8:10 start making cupcakes
8:20 hmm... perhaps I should brush my teeth
8:30 cupcakes in oven! the fastest I have ever baked lets hope they turn out okay because I used no measuring cups and used more of an ehh that looks like enough attitude
8:35 lug in all the boxes with lights and Christmas ornaments for the tree
8:40 curse the fact that I decided to get a 10 foot tree
8:45 hmm... I wonder if I have any emails?
8:50 what is that beeping sound? CRAP THE CUPCAKES!
9:10 look at clock and realize that I wasted time on the stupid internet (darn you internet and your bag of tricks!)
9:15 Start untangling the lights for the tree
9:30 start shouting at the lights because none of them work and the ones that do only light up half way
10:30 lights are finally done
10:35 I wonder what's going on over at socialitelife.com
11:00 YOU GOT ME AGAIN STUPID INTERNET!
11:01 seriously start considering about having a game at the dinner party called help Melissa decorate her tree
11:02 start putting the ornaments on the tree
11:02 first ornament that I put on falls to the floor and I start shouting at the tree and asking why it doesn't like me
12:25 finish the ornaments after almost falling off the ladder and killing myself. stupid 10 foot tree
12:30 must clean kitchen and breakfast area
1:00 look at bed longingly and wonder why i offered up my house
1:10 take shower
1:25 start getting ready
2:30 run out the door as am so going to be late to the office (heh the office did you see last nights episode? BRILLIANT.)
2:45 stare at the road in front of me as it is down to one lane and I now have only 15 minutes to get to the meeting
2:56 almost hit a parked car as I'm trying to park
2:58 run into office
3:00 am on time for meeting
4:00 stare at clock wondering what time this thing will be over
4:30 get to my desk and start typing up this post and play on the internet
5:21 publish this stupid post, and head home
December 15, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
These last few days have been so busy it seems I barely have time to sleep these days. I will be doing something and then look at the clock and its one in the morning, and I have to wake up at six. I have a headache today and I think its from lack of sleep. I know wah wah wah. I'm such a winer.
During these days when I have been so busy I have tried to start several posts but then I get distracted and I'm on to something else. Okay lets be honest the distraction is online shopping but have you seen this this and this! I'm also a little obsessed with this. Anyway I am now going to post basically what whatever pops into my mind that I have been meaning to post in the last week. It will make no sense... but then again when do I ever.
I now know that I could never be a contestant on America's Next Top Model, and not because I'm only five foot three inches tall. No it's because I get so uncomfortable in front of a camera I literally look like I'm constipated. I am by nature more comfortable behind the camera. I really don't like pictures to be taken of me and I tend to hide behind others in group shots, and it's not that I have low self esteem or anything I'm actually quite confident in myself, its just I hate the way I come out in them. With that being said my Christmas present to my parents this year is a portrait of myself. While I know that sounds completely narcissistic, its what they asked for. I always blew it off but for lack of a better idea I decided to indulge them. I'm an only child and I swear one of my hallways is like a walk of fame of nothing but pictures of me. I assure you it is quite embarrassing. Also if you are a family member that is reading this lets not tell them about this little paragraph.
My friend Doug of Eli Photography (which you should totally check out by the way because he is amazing) took the pictures and I was there forever because I wasn't comfortable. (Actually truth be told we had to do it twice because I didn't like the first dress I was wearing. I'm such a girl.) You know what else isn't fun about this process, having someone you know take the pictures because then you have to tell them what you want to photo-shop, and there are all your insecurities displayed out on the table.
I am fast on my way of getting a promotion at work. I have now just jinxed myself but whatever. Usually in life I take a more ehh whatever type of attitude and I'm a huge procrastinator. At work it's like this Type A personality comes out that I didn't even know existed. All of a sudden I become this go getter. I show up early, I'm there late and I even get things done two days before they are due. I mean who is this person? I even hate myself sometimes. Now don't get me wrong I'm not some back stabbing, climb my way to the top and I don't care who gets hurts in the process kind of girl. I will say that I do LOVE when I'm the first one out of my training class to close a deal with a client. That makes me happy.
The Devil Wears Prada came out on DVD on Tuesday. I want it for Christmas.
My tape player broke in my car. Yes, I said TAPE player. I'm so ghetto right now. I use my tape player to plug in this thing so I can listen to my ipod in the car. Now I have this wire hanging out of my tape deck and I slightly embarrassed to go and get it fixed. I can see the conversation now.
"Um, hi... can you fix my tape deck?"
"You mean CD player?"
"No I mean tape as in cassette."
"They still make those!"
I just finished my Christmas cards last night and I made them all by hand! What in the heck was I thinking?!?! I'm not Martha Stewart and what would have taken me an hour to do had I just gone and bought some, took me 2 nights (about 6 hours). If you receive one of these and I am at your house they better be in plain sight! Even if it's the middle of summer.
I have yet to decorate my tree and I'm throwing a dinner party tomorrow night. I also have yet to clean my house or make the peppermint cupcakes that I promised for said party. I should do that right now but instead I'm going to go home and take a nap because I don't feel good.
Oh and I'm moving January 5th and I haven't packed a thing.
December 14, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
I am here to address the people who found me by googling the following:
San Antonio Debutante, trust me I'm not the person you are looking for.
How to double your dating numbers... um if I had the answer to that question I wouldn't have a whole singleness category.
And last but not least hello to the person who googled she is 6 feet tall, sorry to disappoint I'm only 5'3" but if your looking for someone tall might I introduce you to my friend Hillary?
December 11, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
I have not abandoned you my dear friends but work has been oh so busy. I do want to ask you a favor and that is to shoot me now because I have the lyrics to Lionel Richie's song say you say me stuck in my head. It has been on repeat for hours in my brain. Help me.
December 06, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)