Run Rudolph Run
I have spent the last 3 weeks listening to Christmas music and Chuck Berry's version is still far better than Bryan Adams' version.
I haven't updated my LJ since October and I was pretty surprised that I'd gone that long without an update of any kind. LJ seems to be one of those things that I had good intentions to keep up on but I haven't made an actual point of sitting down and taking the time to update it. It's even sadder that I even had to reread my own post because I couldn't even remember what I'd posted.
I'm sitting in my house, hiding from the -11 weather although it feels more like -20 because of the wind-chill. It's going to be a long cold snowy winter this year, nothing like last year where it kept melting and we had an early spring. I'm not really sure if that depresses me or not, I love snow and I want to go cross country skiing this year and ice skating. Speaking of which, I need to buy a new pair of skates. But I don't want -20 temperatures either.
I started my Christmas shopping early this year and I'm still not finished. I'm not sure how that happened, I had such aspirations to be done by this week but I'm still trying to finish off one more present and I still have to buy stocking stuffers. Not to mention find some sort of stocking hooks to hold mine and Rob's stockings at my house. I bought a tree this year. I've had my place since 2006 and I finally bought a tree to decorate. I had some Christmas decorations but never a tree. It was really exciting to buy a tree and lights (a fake tree as I'm allergic to real ones), decorations and put it up with Rob. He's so excited about Christmas and it's a breath of fresh air because asshat never really seemed that excited about it and we most defintely did not decorate or had a tree. My tree is super sparkly, very blingy and typically me. *lol* I don't have a theme for my tree, I prefer homemade looking ornaments to ones that look more store bought. I have some photos that I will load up later tonight because I want to take some shots of the snow too.
Also on my Christmas to-do list is to ice the 6 dozen cookies in my mom's freezer. We made sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies this year. That's not even counting the Italian baking left to do. (oh man do I love Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" right on!) I also ordered 21 cookie cutters because I couldn't find ones that I wanted because I'm going to make painted ornaments to put on my presents this year. I'm the person that is ridiculous about wrapping gifts, I like mine to be unique AND pretty. :) Sparkly, over the top bows, ribbon, shiny paper, I take extra effort wrapping my gifts because I'd rather give presents than get them. I never know what I want to for Christmas because I generally don't need anything or want something that I can't already buy for myself. I get more joy out of giving presents than getting them. Christmas for me is about giving and spending time with my family and friends, rather than presents. I'm sure at one point in my life, it was about presents but as I've gotten older, presents seem trivial. People scramble around, spending ridiculous amounts of money on presents and to what end? To be broke? But that's just my opinion.
This month is going to be very busy this year, I've already been to 2 Christmas parties, one with the crew and then out with the old Steel City Tournaments committee. I suspect Rob will have one with his friends and I'll be going over to his parents' house for Christmas as well. That part makes me nervous as I will be meeting some of his relatives and I'm just not good at meeting family members of anyone because I have to behave myself. *lol* That means no swearing, no dirty jokes and no giving my blunt opinion on things. I will be sitting there looking pretty and that's about it. *lol* On top of Christmas and New Years I have some Graphic Design work to do, I'm not sure when I'm going to fit everything in! *lol*
I will stop here before this post gets out of control because it's already pretty long!
I haven't updated my LJ since October and I was pretty surprised that I'd gone that long without an update of any kind. LJ seems to be one of those things that I had good intentions to keep up on but I haven't made an actual point of sitting down and taking the time to update it. It's even sadder that I even had to reread my own post because I couldn't even remember what I'd posted.
I'm sitting in my house, hiding from the -11 weather although it feels more like -20 because of the wind-chill. It's going to be a long cold snowy winter this year, nothing like last year where it kept melting and we had an early spring. I'm not really sure if that depresses me or not, I love snow and I want to go cross country skiing this year and ice skating. Speaking of which, I need to buy a new pair of skates. But I don't want -20 temperatures either.
I started my Christmas shopping early this year and I'm still not finished. I'm not sure how that happened, I had such aspirations to be done by this week but I'm still trying to finish off one more present and I still have to buy stocking stuffers. Not to mention find some sort of stocking hooks to hold mine and Rob's stockings at my house. I bought a tree this year. I've had my place since 2006 and I finally bought a tree to decorate. I had some Christmas decorations but never a tree. It was really exciting to buy a tree and lights (a fake tree as I'm allergic to real ones), decorations and put it up with Rob. He's so excited about Christmas and it's a breath of fresh air because asshat never really seemed that excited about it and we most defintely did not decorate or had a tree. My tree is super sparkly, very blingy and typically me. *lol* I don't have a theme for my tree, I prefer homemade looking ornaments to ones that look more store bought. I have some photos that I will load up later tonight because I want to take some shots of the snow too.
Also on my Christmas to-do list is to ice the 6 dozen cookies in my mom's freezer. We made sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies this year. That's not even counting the Italian baking left to do. (oh man do I love Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" right on!) I also ordered 21 cookie cutters because I couldn't find ones that I wanted because I'm going to make painted ornaments to put on my presents this year. I'm the person that is ridiculous about wrapping gifts, I like mine to be unique AND pretty. :) Sparkly, over the top bows, ribbon, shiny paper, I take extra effort wrapping my gifts because I'd rather give presents than get them. I never know what I want to for Christmas because I generally don't need anything or want something that I can't already buy for myself. I get more joy out of giving presents than getting them. Christmas for me is about giving and spending time with my family and friends, rather than presents. I'm sure at one point in my life, it was about presents but as I've gotten older, presents seem trivial. People scramble around, spending ridiculous amounts of money on presents and to what end? To be broke? But that's just my opinion.
This month is going to be very busy this year, I've already been to 2 Christmas parties, one with the crew and then out with the old Steel City Tournaments committee. I suspect Rob will have one with his friends and I'll be going over to his parents' house for Christmas as well. That part makes me nervous as I will be meeting some of his relatives and I'm just not good at meeting family members of anyone because I have to behave myself. *lol* That means no swearing, no dirty jokes and no giving my blunt opinion on things. I will be sitting there looking pretty and that's about it. *lol* On top of Christmas and New Years I have some Graphic Design work to do, I'm not sure when I'm going to fit everything in! *lol*
I will stop here before this post gets out of control because it's already pretty long!