Break It Down

I'm currently enjoying my Christmas break from my couch. I believe this is the laziest I've been in a long, long time. No complaining here.

Christmas has come and gone and it was fantastic. The best part of the holiday was spending time with my family. We had a great time with my dad's side of the family-exchanging white elephant gifts and playing Minute to Win It. Christmas day was spent with my immediate family including my sweet future sister-in-law.

I can't complain about my gifts either. We surpised my dad with a signed Stan Musial jersey that he loves. My mom liked her Glee game but I was kind of outshown when she unwrapped her Kindle. I also got a Kindle (and a new laptop which allows me to blog from the couch!). I've already read two books and am starting a third.

One of the books I read was awesome. I'll be posting about it later.

Ok, off to figure out my outfit for the Wild, Wild West NYE party and continue watching Toddlers and Tiaras!

Christmas Time is Here!

And I can't believe it! Seriously, Christmas already? In about 10 days?!

I'm totally behind in my gift shopping too. I started off great with getting my dad's present in November! I have half of my mom's present down...shh..don't tell her but I bought her the Glee Wii game!

I hope she likes it!

I still have to purchase gifts for my brother and his fiancee. I believe my brother is getting clothes or some Cardinals stuff and Cara is going to get either some bling from Anthro or a gift card. I love that place. I wish I could afford to shop there more often.

I'll let you know what I end up with!

Love It/Hate It

Since I suck at blogging I thought perhaps I'd be forgiven if I did a little love/hate list. I'll list some things I hate (well, that is a strong word, let's just call it dislike) and then follow up with some things I'm love, love, loving right now.....Here goes:

Right now I'm disliking:

*cold weather-Perhaps if I lived in this huge house, I would like snow and cold weather a little bit more...ok, maybe not. I'm not enjoying this cold at all and we are getting snow this weekend and I'm so not liking it at all.

*inconsiderate people at work who print off a bunch of stuff and then never pick it up and have therefore wasted a huge amount of paper

*bread and sweets. Okay, I lie. I LOVE breads and sweets, but I shouldn't eat them and they just won't leave me alone!

*pretty much any song by Katy Perry right now. Overplayed and getting on my nerves.

*Pink. Not the color, the singer. She just irks me for some reason.

*people who go to Wal-Mart. It is like they have never been to or in a store before when they go there.

*celebrities that buy utterly ridiculous things for each other. Beyonce bought Jay-Z a car that is supposedly the fastest car available. First, I highly doubt he drives himself anywhere and secondly why does he need to go anywhere that fast? I feel like that is just wasteful. Donate the hundreds of thousands of dollars to some charity and help people instead of buying something so useless.

*finally, no list of stuff I dislike would be complete without.....KEVIN BACON! New commercial for Logitech? CREEPY!!

See how little I had to make it? That's in order to keep people from being creeped out.

I LoVe:

*Christmas-baby Jesus, cheery songs, the hunt for just the right gift, sweaters, overall jollyness (or is it jolliness, or is that even a word? Who knows? Who cares? Everyone is hap, hap, happy!)

*St. Louis magzine, the Post-Dispatch, and the Nate Berkus Show for highlighting an incredible person-my lovely and amazingly talented friend JOI!http://daveandjoi.blogspot.com/

*scarves-can't get enough of them!

*Gap's Really Skinny Premium Black Pants-I need to order like 8 pair of them right now. That is how much I love them. Like leggings only a little more structure, but comfy and classy looking. Go find them now.

*Keri Hilson's new song as well as Cee Lo Green's song (you know the one with the f word in it)


*friends and family-I'm so excited to see some great friends this weekend and catch up with another friend tonight. I think the older I get, the more I truly appreciate my family and my friends. I'm blessed to have such supportive people in my life!


Ok, must get back to work....later!

Busy like a bee...

The wedding has come and gone and I still haven't gotten any pictures from that weekend. As soon as my parents decide to send me some, I'll post.

The dress was comfy, shoes not too bad, and I managed to not get the giggles when I read, "My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag."

Ate WAY too much and paid for it, but am attempting to get back on track. I emailed the doctor's office and they gave me the ok to eat sprouts or legumes instead of meat!! Huzzah!

This weekend will be crazy busy!

I'll be home tonight trying to iron on some designs my students made for our Girls on the Run flag because.....the 5K is tomorrow morning!!

If you want to come, see the details here:http://www.girlsontherunstlouis.org/

Then I get to go home and rest for a while until the Chuck Figge Memorial Trivia Night. If you have nothing to do, come play some trivia! http://www.cfmgs.com/TRIVIA.html

Sunday, I have to teach Sunday School, perform with the puppet ministry Puppets For Praise, and then travel to a local nursing home to perform puppets again.

Sheesh...I hope I make it!

Wedding Attire

So.

I'm going to my cousin's wedding (like I haven't mentioned that a million times yet) and I need something to wear. I don't want to spend too much money since I have very little to begin with, so I've been scouring the internets for some options. My mom and I are going shopping either tomorrow or Sunday.

I found a couple of dresses at JC Penney that I really like. I'm hoping that they are as cute in person and on me as they are on the website. I've tried to post their pictures but Blogger doesn't seem to want me to...grrr.... Anyway, they are all three on sale for less than $30! Woot!

I also found a dress at Macy's but it is over $100 and a little out of my price range for now.

Kohl's also has some Lauren Conrad dresses that I like but sometimes her clothes are a little short for me...and that is saying something because I'm a short girl!

If I can get blogger to cooperate, I'll post pics of the dresses and let you help me decide!

Meat or No Meat

If you've read my last few posts, you know that I don't like meat. As a child, I remember not liking meat but knowing that I had to eat it. Now, as an adult, I really don't like it. Honestly, even the thought of meat sometimes makes me gag.

Part of the Page diet that I am now following, means that I have to eat three servings of animal protein a day. In case you are slow, that means I have to eat meat 3 times a day! I am really struggling with finding ways to hide meat so I can eat it. Everything I can think of is off limits due to having potatoes, bread, or pasta in it.

So, my question, dear readers, is this: Does anyone have a good recipe I can try out that requires some meat (no pork-it is off limits on the diet too!) but disguises it enough that I can eat it?

Craziness!

All I can say is I hope this weekend is a little safer and less scary than this past weekend!

I was a boring singleton Friday and crashed early in anticipation of Saturday's festivities. Saturday was my cousin, Shannon's, bachelorette party. She is getting married in less than two weeks now and I'm super excited to see my entire family. We haven't all been together in a VERY long time! I'm the reader for the wedding and was informed that one of the readings is a little funny. Great! Now I'll be fighting the giggles!

Anyhoo- I met the party at Fast Eddies (a local establishment known for its cheap food and cold drinks). It was well under way and I ended up hopping on the bus to continue with them. All was fine and good until we were headed to drop me back off and one of the bridesmaids decided to get off of the bus. While it was driving down the road. The bus wasn't going more than 30-40 miles an hour, I'm sure, but it was still one of the scariest things that I've ever seen. I was sitting backwards at one of the tables so I didn't see her actually leave the bus. The bus came to a sudden hault and the driver ran off the bus. By then we all knew something happened and two of the girls ran off the bus to help. She ended up being ok, I think, but it was still scary. Who the heck does that?

Here's hoping the wedding is slightly less dramatic!