Big excitment

I was walking through Wal-mart this weekend and they are already putting Valentine’s stuff on the shelves. Can you believe that?? I mean, we just had Christmas! And Valentine’s is a month and half away! Next thing you know, it will be Halloween.

Steve and I had a good Christmas. He stayed kinda sick through Tuesday, but I think he has finally recovered. We went to Canyon Lake for Christmas Eve to spend time with my grandparents and cousins. When we got home we changed into our pajamas and opened half of the gifts that we got for each other thinking that if we had 2 days of present opening it would be more fun. Christmas morning we opened the rest and then got ready for our “big” dinner. His parents showed up around 11 and my parents got there around 4. We had a turkey from Popeye’s Chicken, a ham, and all the fixings and everything (other than the turkey) was made by yours truly. It was good but the turkey was kinda dry.

Other than the presents, our big excitement this weekend was walking outside Christmas morning to find that the lights we put up along our driveway were stolen! Stolen!! Who the hell steals Christmas lights on Christmas Eve???? They took the whole strand on the right side of the driveway and six bulbs from the strand on the left. Ugh, so irritating.

Steve and I have no plans for New Year’s Eve. I feel kinda lame but at the same time I am just not feeling it this year. If you are doing something fun I hope it goes well!

The calm before the storm

I had a very quiet weekend this weekend. In fact, I only left the house twice. Once for dinner on Saturday and once to go to the store on Sunday.

Steve ended up getting very sick on Saturday during dinner. He said he was feeling weird, like he couldn't even lift his fork to eat. When we got home, he ran to the bathroom. He was in such a hurry he hit his head on the door frame! When he finally came out, he had a huge knot and was sweating like crazy. I checked his tempurature and put him to bed. He had a fever of 100.4 and it lasted until 2pm on Sunday. I was getting kinda worried that it wouldn't break so I was glad when it did. He stayed home from work yesterday and is starting to feel much better.

I am not as excited about Christmas this year as I normally am. I think it is because we are not doing what we normally do for Christmas, well, what I normally do. Normally, I take 2 weeks off and pretty much spend that entire time in the Valley with my folks, this year I will only get to see them this weekend. The worst thing about getting married is sharing the holidays. Or at least that has been the worst for me. I have never been very good at sharing.

I hope everyone has a great Christmas! And Happy Hanukkah Steph!!

Keep your fingers crossed!

Today is our department's holiday party. They are going to announce the winner of the cube decorations. Here is my entry:



There are 2 other cubes who are pretty stiff competition. One girl made the front of her cube look like a ginger bread house:



It is really cute. Another made her's look like Santa's house. It has a roof over the entire cube with lights and snow and it has a fireplace inside the cube. This person also convinced the nine people to the left of her to decorate their cubes like houses as well. They put each of the reindeer on top of these houses and right before the judging they will add a string of lights to connect the reindeer to Santa's sleigh. This isn't the best picture but you get the idea.



I am hoping for 3rd. I'll get to leave 2 hours early on the day of my choice. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Update: I got it!!!

Sick, sick, sick

Sorry I have been MIA for a few days. I got sick last week and haven't been up to doing much of anything. I can't stop coughing and my nose is super stuffy. It sucks. It started on Thursday which was ok because the weekend was coming and I knew I could sleep it off, or at least I thought I could. My coughs are so violent they keep me up and if I am able to fall alseep, they wake me up. Like I said, it sucks.

Steve and I didn't do much this weekend thanks to my cold. We finished putting up the lights on the house and took some pictures of the dogs for our Christmas card.





This was my favorite picture of them but it isn't the picture that we used on the card. It didn't fit the space in the card that we liked. I sent them out on Tuesday so they should be arriving soon!

Sunday night my computer crashed. I took it to IT on Monday, went to our employee health clinic for some prescrition drugs, and then went home. The doctor gave me some cough medicine with codine so I thought I would be able to sleep forever - wrong again. It doesn't work any better than the over the counter stuff. :(

I have been playing catch up at work every since. As nice as a day off is, sometimes it just isn't worth it!