Fa, la, la, and all that stuff
The Christmas tree is still standing. It has stood against incredible odds...or Elvis the cat as the case may be. There are a few branches that I've had to trim a little due to kitty gnawing, but he hasn't knocked it over again...thankfully.
I'm almost done Christmas shopping. I still have one more person left but we won't see her until after the holidays. So, I'm not going to kill myself getting to the mall this week. I have everything wrapped and under the tree too. I have another motive for that though. Through strategic stacking, we take away the under-the-tree kitty highway...one less direction for them to get at the tree. I wrapped all my husband's gifts and I realized that the gift to money spent ratio doesn't look so hot. I actually spent WAY too much, but one big gift isn't at my house and two of them I can't really wrap. The big gift is a folding work bench, but it's was too big for me to carry by myself. So it's at my mom's house (he'll get it when we go there for Christmas dinner). The other two are a magazine subscription and personal training sessions at his gym. How do you wrap those? I also got him the Family Guy Volume 3 DVD's that he wanted and a sweater, but it looks like he has nothing to open on Christmas morning.
We are going to see Evita tonight at the NJ PAC (Performing Arts Center - in Newark). It's a great theater and they have really cleaned up that part of Newark. Seriously, it's pretty high class now. You can hardly afford the restaurants in the area anymore and a lot of people prefer to go there instead of heading into the city. I'm looking forward to it because I really like the story, but there are a couple downsides. One - it's quite long and we won't get home until pretty late, which makes getting up at 4:30 tomorrow morning a chore. Two - we are going with my in-laws. Of all the progress my mother-in-law and I have made in the last few months she has effectively erased it all in a couple short weeks. But this time, it's not me who's angry. She started a big fight with my husband last week and said some pretty stupid and hurtful things. Then she called back the next day and acted like absolutely nothing happened. We've had these tickets for a while, so we are all still going. But it will probably be weird. I guess maybe it's good to see her tonight and get all the weirdness over with before the holidays. But then again, it's my mother-in-law we are talking about - the weirdness never really ends.
Two and half weeks until vacation and I can't wait! A week of sun, warm weather, and blue ocean is just what I need right now. I need to kind of erase the last couple of months of stress before we start in-vitro again. I have about 6 or 7 weeks before I start medication again, so de-stressing is definitely needed.
I'm almost done Christmas shopping. I still have one more person left but we won't see her until after the holidays. So, I'm not going to kill myself getting to the mall this week. I have everything wrapped and under the tree too. I have another motive for that though. Through strategic stacking, we take away the under-the-tree kitty highway...one less direction for them to get at the tree. I wrapped all my husband's gifts and I realized that the gift to money spent ratio doesn't look so hot. I actually spent WAY too much, but one big gift isn't at my house and two of them I can't really wrap. The big gift is a folding work bench, but it's was too big for me to carry by myself. So it's at my mom's house (he'll get it when we go there for Christmas dinner). The other two are a magazine subscription and personal training sessions at his gym. How do you wrap those? I also got him the Family Guy Volume 3 DVD's that he wanted and a sweater, but it looks like he has nothing to open on Christmas morning.
We are going to see Evita tonight at the NJ PAC (Performing Arts Center - in Newark). It's a great theater and they have really cleaned up that part of Newark. Seriously, it's pretty high class now. You can hardly afford the restaurants in the area anymore and a lot of people prefer to go there instead of heading into the city. I'm looking forward to it because I really like the story, but there are a couple downsides. One - it's quite long and we won't get home until pretty late, which makes getting up at 4:30 tomorrow morning a chore. Two - we are going with my in-laws. Of all the progress my mother-in-law and I have made in the last few months she has effectively erased it all in a couple short weeks. But this time, it's not me who's angry. She started a big fight with my husband last week and said some pretty stupid and hurtful things. Then she called back the next day and acted like absolutely nothing happened. We've had these tickets for a while, so we are all still going. But it will probably be weird. I guess maybe it's good to see her tonight and get all the weirdness over with before the holidays. But then again, it's my mother-in-law we are talking about - the weirdness never really ends.
Two and half weeks until vacation and I can't wait! A week of sun, warm weather, and blue ocean is just what I need right now. I need to kind of erase the last couple of months of stress before we start in-vitro again. I have about 6 or 7 weeks before I start medication again, so de-stressing is definitely needed.