Good-Bye to Christmas

I consider New Years Day the very end of Christmas. It's the day I start to take down the decorations, the tree and start to clean up the mess that has taken over my house. I know that we still have a couple of days until this day is here, so I am sitting here enjoying the decorations and the tree. The mess that has taken over my house is not so great though and I definitely need to take care of this before I have company over Monday night. So because the tree will be leaving soon, I wanted to share a couple of pictures of it with you.....enjoy!

Quick Random Gossip!

A very good friend of mine and a very reliable source told me that NKOTB, yes, New Kids on the Block, will be having a reunion tour in 2008. So if you thought that 2008 was going to be a bummer think again and "Hang Tough!"

Post Christmas Blog

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas, ate too much and got everything that they asked for. I honestly can't complain. I had a great holiday (even though I had like no time off from work). I saw many good friends and spent quality time with the family.

Christmas Eve I went to my Nana's house. Traditionally we have gone to 4 o'clock mass and headed over to the house around 5:30 after mass. However this year is the our first Christmas without my grandfather and it appears that I have just given up on mass gradually over the past few years..soo...my Nana ended up having us over at the bright early hour of 3:30. We had a great time and ate A LOT.

Immediately after that I headed to my boyfriend's house for Christmas Eve dinner...yup, dinner...like I needed more food. So being polite I took food onto my plate and ate as much as I could. However, when his dad plopped the biggest piece of pie I had ever seen in front of me, I thought I was going to die...so I left the pie there and tried to not look directly at it, because I was afraid I might puke. After dying, John and I exchanged gifts and he gave me an awesome digital camera that I love! I actually might end up buying a photo printer with the money my parents gave me for xmas ...but we will see...

Christmas morning we visited my Nana again and the headed down to my Aunt and Uncle's house for our annual xmas celebration. It was fun and again I ate WAY too much!! We did get our Annual Camp Ghetto Fabulous gear...sweatpants..and they def rock. (if you want more info on Camp Ghetto Fab..check out CampGhettoFabulous).

Overall I had a great holiday and I hope you all did too! The only bummer was that I had to go to work the next day:( I am just glad that tomorrow is Friday..yay!! And I have next Tuesday off as well ...not New Years Eve...but I guess I can't have the word...lol

Update of sorts

So, I received the cord for my computer and I am back up and running...sorta...haha. Because I was having a hard time living without my computer I decided that while it was dead I would clean the keyboard. I am obviously not an expert in this area...because I now have my computer back, but my "N" key and my "," are both missing....that's right!! They fell off while I was cleaning the keyboard and I can't get them back on. This wouldn't be SO bad, except now I have lost the pieces that connect the keys to the keyboard and I now have two holes in my keyboard where the keys should go. I am such a moron. At least I can still get the key strokes to come out..haha...with a little effort.But anyway that's the update of my computer...stupid...stupid...stupid....

A Few Confessions

1. I can't live without my computer. I know that I definitely don't go on my computer nearly as much as I used to. However, I honestly go in to panic mode knowing that I can't check the weather, the movie times or my email at the drop of a hat when my computer is not working. So yes, the power cord to my computer is broken and I have one ordered and on the way....but as you can see I can't stay away from a computer for more than 24 hours or I freak out! So I have borrowed my sister's computer, check my email, ordered some snow boots on LL Bean (my feet are still wet from showing that freakishly heavy snow from today), quickly went on Myspace and Facebook and now I am blogging!!:)

2. I am obsessed with Christmas time made for TV Family Channel Movies. I don't care how cheesy they are or how many times I have seen them in the past, I love them. Yesterday alone I think I watched 3 of them; two of which I had definitely seen before. But I am a huge sucker for Christmas movies and romantic comedies and I continue to watch them as many times as I possibly can before the season is over!! I will also admit that I just checked the TV schedule for tonight...although I don't seen any Family Channel Movies that look good, I did find a good one on the Hallmark Channel called "All I Want For Christmas" and I am definitely going to partake.

3. I have been a total slacker with Weight Watchers and working out for the past month and I am totally ashamed:( So I am back on track tomorrow. If I want to go away in February I don't want to feel like the Whale that I know I am right now!!


Thanks for letting me confess....ttys!

Great paint job!

I was riding home from work today (going pretty slow because of the snow) and I looked to my left and saw this disgusting looking paint job on this house that I was passing. It was bright yellow with bright red trim around all doors, windows and around the roof. I seriously was laughing to myself and wondering how I had never seen this house before. As I got further past, I realized that there was a very large sign with the painting contractor's name on it placed proudly in front of this horrible looking home. Now, I am not sure if they put the sign there to advertise there terrific work....or if they put the sign there to warn others to stay away from this color blind contractor:)~

Alien Baby

As many of you know I have never really had any reason to go to the hospital or had any things that have been wrong with me. I have seriously only had the flu like 4 times in my life and rarely have a cold....so when I went to my doctor's and there was concern about something in my uterus..I totally freaked!!!

But after many doctor's appointments, ultra sound, next week MRI, and many hours of googling my ailments, I have been told that I am not dying..haha...but that I have a large or very few fibroids in my uterus.

At first this was freaky, but after learning that only 1 percent of them are cancerous and learning my options, it is less freaky and I have been just looking forward to the future. I know that I will most likely have trouble having children in the future which is sad, but I after talking to a few people that did struggle to have kids, I have learned that it will be OK. So right now I am most likely going to need surgery, but the MRI will tell them exactly what will need to be done.

SO of course in the meantime, I have been making jokes about the "Alien Baby" that is inside of me. Seriously, whatever is in me, is so big I that feel pregnant and I can't wait for them to shrink or be removed....so in the meantime I have named my Alien Baby "PF CHANG" and I'm not sure when it will be born...but I will let you know!!

Mini Rants and Apology for not blogging

I know it has been a while since I have last blogged. A lot has been going on that has kept me quite occupied and I promise to blog about it (although kind of personal) in the next day or two. But in the meantime I have a few things that I need to complain about so others can either help me or laugh along with me.

I have been at my current job for almost 5 years. Holy shit, I know, that's a long time, but in that time I have grown quite the thick skin for very evil people. I have only cried, I think 3 times in those 5 years, and although many people probably have never cried at work, I think this is pretty good considering the abuse that I take daily. Since becoming a senior adjuster, the number and intensity of evil people has certainly increased (since I am the person that the evil person requests after being evil to the first person). The woman that I spoke to on Friday had to be the worst of the worst. I honestly don't understand how a person can call up to a complete stranger and be so mean. I can take, yelling or screaming or insults in general, but when that person is making it so personal, using so many swears directed in your direction, you can only take so much before either 1. going postal or 2. shedding a tear (and I did the latter). However, what my complaint is this....does this person not realize that she has hurt a human being? A person that will be driving home, replaying the insults and yells in their mind, a person that now has a ruined evening because of her evilness? How would this person like it if she was screamed at, call a moron, stupid and a bunch of swears and then excepted to leave work and have a great evening? Grr...It just frustrates me so much. I would never be evil to another person, no matter how angry I am!!

So I walked up to my front door this evening after work and found a business card stuck in the door. Now to preface this story a bit, my grandfather has a very old Ford Van in the backyard of the house that I live at now. this van has a ton of memories for the family and we promised each other that we would not get rid of this van until my grandmother passed away. OK....so it's been over a years since my grandmother's passing and the van is still in the backyard. I am not sure if it runs or has anything in it for that matter.....I am pretty sure that it has quite a few weeks growing up in there....but anyway, I am kind of scared to look into. So anyway, I come home to find this business card stuck in the door and in blue pen on the back of the card it reads, "I am interested in the van in the backyard, please call" So I turn the card over and it has some business and in blue pen the name, "Mark". All I have to say is SKETCH. Now, if someone wants to haul this van out of here, more power to them...but the van will be missed very much.....I promise to up date you all if the van is actual removed!

Not much else is going on in Katherine land. I got my tree which like always acts as a giant cat toy for Dizzy. But I love having a real tree and it wouldn't be Christmas with out it. I have finished my Christmas shopping (shocker I know..since I am always a last minute person). My job is a living hell like always and I can't wait for the weekend!!

Must end the blog now, as Dizzy is actually removing the lights from the tree! I will write again sooner than you think;)