there once was a man from…

 Nantucket!  That’s right, we are headed off to Nantucket to celebrate the New Year.  The weather forecasters are predicting snow, which means we will be Jeeping on the snowy beach!  Yay!  I will also be hoarding bowls upon bowls of the cheddar ale soup from the Brotherhood of Theives restaurant.  Oh man, to die!

 In wedding related news, we have another tasting tonight with the caterers.  Yum, there’s only one thing I like more than cheddar ale soup: free food! 

 So free dinner and a nice mini vaca.  I love it!

 Have a great New Year everyone!

 (And for those of you who don’t know the rest of the limmerick:

 There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
He walked down the street
Just a-swingin’ his meat
While he carried his balls in a bucket.)

fa la la la la

 Merry Christmas everyone!

 I am officially in the Christmas spirit!  Yay!  I finished off all of my baking this morning, ready to assemble and pack up my little goodie bags for everyone.

 Too bad I can’t say the same for my knitting projects.  I have been knitting away like a mad woman (knit!  knit like the wind!) to no avail.  I could not get my dad’s scarf finished in time.  Luckily I never told him of my plans to give him a scarf this christmas (technically the scarf I owe him from three christmases ago when i gave him an IOU) so he wont be too disappointed.  Especially since he will be getting a basket full of baked goodies (well, not a basket, because to buy ten baskets would have put me over budget, but they will all get nice gift bags filled with home baked goodness).

 Anyway, just wanted to come on here to wish everyone a happy holiday.

 Ho ho ho!

xmas spirit?

 I have seriously been lacking on the xmas spirit this year.  Like, totally not into it.  At all.  Jeff had to practically twist my arm to decorate the tree (granted, this was on the day I found out I got laid off, but…).  Then over the weekend, he just couldn’t get me motivated to be all “yippee” about xmas shopping.  The mall was a zoo, Walmart is annoying as always, I just couldn’t muster up any sort of “yay” this time.  Usually I am a bundle of excitement this time of year, gearing up to give everyone their gifts.  Maybe I wasted all my enthusiasm on Jeff’s birthday gift or something, but I was just not into it…

 …Until yesterday.  When I wrapped all of our gifts, made sugar cookies from scratch, rolled them out, cut them out, iced them, sprinkled them with those crunchy little colorful candy dots.  Yum!  I can’t wait to give everyone their goodies.

 So, that bomb I dropped further up-post?  Yeah, I got laid off.  Wah.  My company, thankfully, is being really cool about it and giving us two month’s notice before we are actually laid off.  So that means I get to come to work for two more months (to, you know, polish up my resume, job search on the company dime, that sort of thing) then I get a nice little severance, that should keep me in the money until I can find another job in this gosh forsaken economy.  So wish me luck.  I’m gonna need it.  I’m off to check Monster…and get paid for it!

newness

 Holy new wordpress!  I am digging it.  I think.

 So, we never made it to the gym last night, opting instead to try to decorate some xmas cookies, since I have always wanted to do that ever since the fifth grade when my sister’s friend, Rachel Mahmoudi, let me try one of her mother’s xmas sugar cookies.  To die! 

 So my batch turned out not nearly as good.  The recipe called for them to go in for 10-15 minutes, so I checked on them at the ten minute mark and they were almost all burned.  Ugh.  So frustrating.  a few of them turned out ok, but this morning when I tried one, and they were hard as hell; I almost broke a tooth.  And also the icing I made from scratch was quite disappointing.  What a waste of ingredients! 

 I have also been slacking in the knitting department, so I think I will stay in tonight to try to finish Dawn’s fingerless gloves.  Her birthday is on Monday, so it looks like it will be a belated birthday/early xmas gift, but oh well.  I’ll get pics up once I finish one of the gloves and I’ll just have to tell Dawn not to visit this blog until I get her the gift.  Haha.  (Crap, that reminds me, I never posted a pic of my so-called scarf that I finished.  I’ll get to that eventually.  Maybe.)

 Anyhoo, have a good weekend everyone!  Stay warm.

blockage

 So I really have nothing to write about, but I feel bad for not having posted anything in a while.  So I am just gonna ramble on and on about a very disturbing phenomenon that has been occurring in my life over the past week.

 Since Thanksgiving, I have ripped THREE pairs of pajama pants.  That’s three pairs of pajama pants in one week–RIPPED!  I know I have not been keeping up with the gym or anything, but I am still ten pounds lighter than I was six months ago!  I am trying to blame it on good ol’ wear and tear, but I cannot be completely blameless.  Last night’s was the last straw, and I am off to the gym tonight, and to ensure that I go, I asked Jeff to come with me, so that I can’t bail out last minute.

 That means I am back on the weight loss wagon, starting tonight.  I want to be down to 160 by New Years so that my sister will stop smoking.  If I can do that I should be all set.  And also if Santa wants to drop off a Mystic Fitness gift card in my stocking, I wont object!

 In other news, I have been accepted back to school, which starts on January 9th.  Yippee!!  I will start off with some easy marketing classes and some psychology classes (never realized how much psychology goes into marketing, but I think it is fascinating, so I am good).  The entirely online courses through the university consist of two 8 week terms within each semester.  I will take two classes per term meaning I will be a busy busy girl for the next few years.  Yay learning!

 And that is all for now.  See how boring my life is!  So glad I have a blog to share all this boredom with you all (three).