Catching up!!
Hey Everyone,
I can’t believe that the weeks are flying by so fast. I mean around the holidays things go fast but it just seems like things this year have gone even faster. Maybe because I am finally comfortable where my life is and is going. I am getting happier with our finances, I have a great job with great bosses and coworkers, I am healthy for the most part (I currently have a sore throat), and I know that I am going to get to see friends and family soon. The year is really starting to come together just as it is about to end. Now if only I could get the weight issue to work out I would be so much happier. I am still on the treck to loose about 40 pounds. I know it is going to be hard for me, because I must be battling something, I think my medication, because I am eating healthier, doing more activities and staying more active then I have in a while and I am still gaining the weight faster then I had before. The only differance is that I am now on medication. I can’t see any kind of doctor till the new year though, because that is when my insurance kicks in, I can’t wait for it to happen.
As far as my weeks have gone they have been full of stuff, work, getting ready for the holiday’s, getting ready for my parents to visit prior to Christmas, and figuring out the best way to relax my cats for the car ride. I am now finished with one of two calanders for my grandparents. I took plenty of pictures since I had to mail it out today to make sure that my grandparents could get it in time for the holidays. The other one will be started this evening and hopefully finished tomorrow or Thursday. I then have a little gift wraping to do as well. My husband and I did our Christmas over the weekend, because this week is full of anything and everything. We both work doubles today, we both work nights tomorrow, my parents are here on Wed. night, he works a double on Thurs. and we head out of town on Fri. I am hoping this week goes fast, though I am sure it will.
So, Sat morning we woke up and I got around to head out to Penny’s to look for a Christmas outfit to wear to my companies Christmas dinner. I hadn’t been able to find what I wanted and so last minute I headed out for the big sale at Penny’s and luckily I found something. I will now also wear this for at least one of the Christmas’s that I have next week. I then got home and we decided to do our Christmas that morning instead of the evening since we were headed out. I did take pics, but I will have to upload them yet. I ended up with a comic book version of a book that I read, a pack of 36 brush duel tip markers for scrapbooking, some ink pads, nerds and sweettarts, lottery tickets, the Celtic Woman cd, an Ice Tea Maker, The Departed DVD, Blood Diamond DVD (can’t get enough Leo), Happy Feet DVD, and the bear-penguin stuffed animal that Kay’s Jewelers is saleing this year for St Jude’s hospital. I try and get them all if I can. It was a great Christmas. My husband got 100 minis from me, a bottle of wine, volume 4 of Family Guy and Season 1 of the Soprano’s. After Christmas we started to clean up from unwraping and then getting around for the dinner. I needed to take a shower, do my hair and makeup as well as get dressed. I wanted to leave about an our and a half early because the weather was to be bad, we had to get some gas and we didn’t know exactly where we were going. We ended up a half hour early, met up with Patrick and Jeff first. The evening started with cocktails and h’orderves, then followed with dinner where I had the Filet Mingon as did my husband. It was a great dinner, the company was great and it was nice to get to relax a little. The company then handed out a few small gifts to those that came including the spouses. My husband got a Hazelnut-chocolate truffle and I recieved a Swarvoski crystal snowflake ornament that says 2007, it is gorgeous. We then headed home, we both had headaches, and I had my sore-throat.
Sun, I woke up still with the sore throat, and just decided to lay around for a while. I then later ran to the scrapbooking store to get a stamp that I have had my eye for a little while. I then went to Jewel to get stuff for lunch-dinner. I made stir-fry for my husband and I to eat before he went to work. I then finished the laundry that I started on Fri. and finished the calender as well, while watching all three of my new movies. My husband then came home and I headed to bed shortly after since I still wasn’t feeling that well.
Today I still have the sore throat, but I will get passed it. I have to work at the Firm till 4:30 and then I am off to the scrapbooking store from 5-9. I will then come home to start promptly working on the second calender that I have to make. At some point I will get to work on my own. Tomorrow is another day like today where I work both jobs and then will go home to work on the calender and get my apartment ready for my parents arrival the next day. My mother has to head to the doctor in downtown Chicago on Thursday so they are coming early to see me and to be nearer to the city. I am sure that we will be headed out to dinner when they arrive and then enjoy each others company till I head to bed to be ready for work on Thursday. Thursday I will spend time doing any last minute laundry and packing so that we can be ready on Friday to leave when 4:30 hits. My husband plans to bring me to work and pick me up so that way we can get right on the highway to head to Indiana. I am so looking forward to the holiday weekend ahead where I will get to see many friends that I haven’t seen in a while.
Well this is long enough and if you made it this far, you are excellent. Hope all is well with everyone and I will hope to get some new pics of our Christmas, the calender and the Christmas dinner for work up soon. Thanks and have a great day!!!
Ashley
