I guess it’s because now I’m older. I’m not just receiving gifts, but I’m expected to give them too. It’s different when you’re a kid, all your time is consumed with enjoying every bit of Christmas. Every thing from when the tree goes up to the usual yearly television programs to shaking the boxes under the tree with your name on it and trying to figure out what it is.

I honestly don’t remember when was the last time I shook a box under the tree.

I think my Christmas joy was left behind along with it.

Now that I’m older, I can’t really fully enjoy Christmas and it sucks. I have things to worry about like getting gifts, cleaning the room, bills and homework. My winter break starts today. And I guess I should be thankful, some people don’t start til Friday and that must really suck. I’ve been so busy the whole month of December trying to keep my grades up and with all the fuss at home that I didn’t really get to enjoy much of December. Then again, it’s been awhile since I did. Last year I was busy with moving across the country and the year before that was spent worrying about my wedding. I’m hoping I’ll get to enjoy every month as they come in 2012.

I finally wrapped all the gifts and used up pretty much my whole roll of wrapping paper. Which is shocking since I only wrapped gifts for the family and for one friend. And it’s not like I suck at wrapping and wasted a bunch of paper or anything either. But it kinda just sucks, husband and I spent a lot on gifts and we’re not really expecting anything this year.

Another thing that sucks about growing up? Everything you want is pretty much over $100. But we figure when we get some money, we’ll wrap gifts, put them under the tree and have our own private version of “Christmas”. He’s a little upset I don’t have anything to unwrap this year and he spent all his money on his family (he has a HUGE family, I’m lucky I don’t). He did get me one thing, but according to him, pulling something out of a gift bag doesn’t count. I don’t mind too much, but I know he minds, a lot. One Christmas he even went as far as wrapping a Christmas card he got me, just so I had something to unwrap. He’s so silly, but it’s cute that he smallest things mean a lot of him.

It’s almost 3am, again. I told myself I wouldn’t sleep so late anymore. But I really want to start Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins. My reading has sucked this month too, which is really, really upsetting.

Merry Christmas Eve!

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday!

I’m hoping to pop open this Cupcake wine later tonight!

I spotted this guy at Panera Bread a few days ago. I don’t think they made him last year… I’m not familiar with gingerbread so I gave him a try. Tasted like mashed up graham crackers, is that what gingerbread is?!

I admit, I bought this on a whim. For no reason. And I’m so glad I did! I am obsessed with this scent! Husband has been putting lotion on my legs at night because I keep forgetting to and at first I thought this scent was too strong… but as it fades, it smells like peppermint marshmallows and it makes my skin tingle! Must. Stock. Up!!

Okay, this is my brother’s candle. I bought a small one that I haven’t lit yet because… I like saving candles. I know, weird right? Anyway, as you can see, he burns his (like any normal person would) and it smells like mint Oreos. It smells heavenly! I wish they’d make this into a body lotion, a soap, a bubble bath… something! Goodness. Yum!

Husband has been making me watch movies I never bothered to watch. Like Toy Story for example. Now I’m obsessed with Buzz Lightyear. And I hated him when I watched the first one. Now I love him! Ugh ugh ugh. I’m not a fan of Lotso but I had to go on this crazy hunt for him for my Disney World Secret Santa and since at the time it was buy one get one free I got myself a Lotso too. Only because I like sniffing him. Husband is also making me sit though all 3 of the Lord of the Rings. I hate to admit, I love Legolas! I think I secretly like Orlando Bloom, even though I talk so much shit about him. But you have to admit, he fucks shit up in every movie (Elizabethtown, Pirates of the Caribbean… TROY… just sayin).

I am so excited that my favorite bakery brought back my favorite soup, Tomato Ravioli! Yay! They took it off the menu and switched everything up so I stopped going. Went to get a snack last week and found out they brought it back! YES! And they had my strawberry shortcake! I’ve been getting it there since I was a kid. *Sigh. Again with the “familiarness”.

I’ve given in to my roots and I’ve gone back to Dr Pepper. I love Dr Pepper but sometimes I only crave it when I’m sick. Lately I’ve been craving it all the time (then again, I’ve been homesick, does that count?). My dad went as far as buying me a whole 24 pack lol. Thanks daddy! I swear it tastes like marshmallows! Husband doesn’t believe me. But come on! 23 flavors, marshmallows could totally be one of them!

So I’ve been picking up the sequal to this book every time I go to Borders and I thought it was the first book in the series, but it’s not so I had to go get the first book, which is Deadly Little Secret. I didn’t really know what to expect but OMG. I love this book! There was suspense, there was humor… romance isn’t a big issue with me when it comes to books. It seems like everything in YA (Young Adult) has a love triangle. Jeez. I actually finished this book in one sitting, in two hours! Crazy. I’ve never done that before! I can’t wait to start on the sequel, Deadly Little Lies! The third book comes out on the 28th I believe. Whoo!

So that’s what I’ve been loving this past week or so. Gotta get things in order. I cleaned my room a bit, now I just have to wash my sheets, organize my stuff, figure out what I’m going to pack, write book reviews, read books that were sent for review and a bunch of other things. Ahhhhh! December is such a hectic month for me all the time. Last year it was our wedding. This year it’s moving. Next year I’m totally going to NOT be busy for December and enjoy it! Hopefully.

So while I let her calm down (and hopefully she calms down soon) I’ll make a quick post about Christmas.

Christmas isnt my favorite holiday (my favorite holiday’s are actually Valentines Day and New Years Eve). I love the holiday spirit, getting ready for Christmas more than the actually day OF Christmas. But lately Martin’s been making sure I enjoy Christmas every year :). This Christmas was much better than last years (last year we were so broke we literally made each other gifts)!

He brought over two gifts! He of course wouldnt tell me what they were but the one on the bottom was heavy!

I finally got him to let me open the top one. It was one of his Air Force BMT PT shirts, a Target gift card and a card he drew and wrote in. I shoulda took a picture of it but I wasnt thinking about it! Darn, I’ll post one later :)

We chilled on Facebook, playing Cafe World and watching A Christmas Story finally! At 8PM he let me open my other gift.

He has this thing where he wraps a gift, puts it in another box, wraps that box, etc etc. This was probably the longest unwrapping I’ve done. It would be wrapped over twice in completely different wrapping paper lol. By the time I got to the actual gift I was tired of unwrapping!

I dont know if I mentioned this but he was bummed out that he couldnt get one of the Limited Edition Metallic Blue DSi that came out last month for me (it has 5 pre-installed Mario games. One of them being Mario VS. Donkey Kong March of the Mini’s 2 — March of the Mini’s is one of my favorite games). So of course when I opened it, I was super surprised to find that he did get the DSi for me! I was super excited. He tricked me, again. I even checked our statement and there was no charge for any place that would sell a DSi! Grrr! He opened his gift and he was surprised to find a DSi too lol. Yes, we bought the same gift for each other lol! And it must suck for Marissa cause she came with both of us to get each other our gifts and she couldnt say anything to either of us LOL!

Our gifts! His is the black one, mine is the Mario one :)

His family tricked me too. His mom got me the DVD Julie and Julia and both Marissa and Martin have been preventing me from buying that DVD since it came out! I’m so excited to watch it! I use to watch her cooking show when I was a kid. I went to culinary school and I’m a blogger :) they also got me Cheshire socks. They havent missed getting me at least one Cheshire thing for Christmas yet lol! My mommy got me some New Moon stuff and my dad gave me money :) I wasnt expecting much from my parents since they’ve been super helping me out with this wedding thing. That alone was a huge enough gift from the both of them!

Spent Christmas Day at my cousin’s house (as always). It was nice seeing my family, I’ve missed them! I only get to see them on Christmas anymore :( my cousin’s baby Jacob is adorable! He’s so quiet, he didnt cry the entire night! I met my other cousin’s newborn Mya, she’s so tiny! She was asleep when I finally got to see her. My nephew Evan was hanging out with Martin, Martin got him to eat and was playing cars with him like the entire night lol. It was cute. Evan has the cutest “angry” face. Martin is so good with kids, like seriously, its kind of amazing how good he is with kids. Which makes me feel bad that I dont want kids, he’d make a perfect dad. Me on the other hand, my temper is too short to deal with kids lol.

They were playing car’s when I took this picture lol.

I have a picture of me feeding Evan, which was weird… cause I’m not good with feeding kids. But I totally know how my mom felt now when I’d run off after every bite lol.

Okay, I think I should go get my stuff ready for the trip now…! Haha.

Merry Christmas Eve! Hope you all have a safe and happy holiday!

My dad’s gifts, Martin’s gift and the blue one on the right is a gift to myself that I had Amazon wrap for me.

I cant believe Christmas Eve is tomorrow! Where did December go? :(

Off to watch the 2hr special of Glee! :)

It wasnt crazy packed like I thought it would be AND it started raining! But there were people dressed up as toy soldiers going around taking pictures with people and there were carolers! It was pretty awesome. They usually have snowmen figures at the bottom floor but there werent any this year :(

I picked up some stuff from Lush, mostly delicious smelling holiday stuff and I picked up a gift card from B&N. I was going to get some Strawberry Moose Munch too but I didnt realize those were seasonal and all that was out was the usual plain flavors and Dark Chocolate Peppermint. Darn. I say strawberry should be year round!! Its the best one!

I also ran into Cora there! How unexpected. My first YouTube makeup guru meet!

Curious to know what I got from Lush? Check my beauty blog here!

]]> http://thisgirlispoison.net/2009/12/christmas-is-coming-too-fast/feed/ 0 http://thisgirlispoison.net/2009/12/migraines-and-forgetting/ http://thisgirlispoison.net/2009/12/migraines-and-forgetting/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:57:32 +0000 zel http://thisgirlispoison.net/?p=508 I had a slight hunger headache yesterday and the thing I hate the most about hunger headaches is that even after you finally eat, you scarf everything down making you sick from eating too fast and the headache doesnt fully go away. I know I should had taken some medicine but I thought the headache would just go away.

WRONG.

I had trouble sleeping around 7AM-ish because my slight hunger headache turned into a full blown migraine. By the time Martin called me for my wake up call I was grumpy, irritated and I felt like crap! I hate waking up with migraine’s because getting up from bed is usually really painful. Normally I would take an Excedrine and that would be that, but since it gives me really bad ulcers (like every single time I take them now) I cant take them, at all. And they’re the only thing I’m not immune to! Ugh.

I had a bunch of stuff to remember to do today, like add additional items to the packages I was sending out, respond to a few emails and run errands. I did the emails, I mailed my packages and Martin mailed out his paper work, I finally found a gift to get my dad that I think he’d like (plus it had the 2 games I wanted to get him without having to buy a DSi!) and I got my makeup ready to bring with me on the wedding trip.

BUT…

I forgot a few additional items to go in the packages I was mailing out. An entire main prize in fact. I’m bummed I forgot, I dont usually forget things like this… but I had a migraine and I usually get really forgetful and annoyed when I do. I slept on the way to the post office and lunch from how much my head hurt. I couldnt stomach my lunch and I constantly felt like throwing up. I know, I should probably get an MRI done soon but I’m scared! I KNOW! That makes no sense right? I never said I made sense! But I havent been getting them as frequently as I use to, so I’m thankful for that. And Martin forced me drink water for dinner and it helped it go away (I dont drink water ever. I hate the taste of water). I know I should probably drink more water, its been on my resolutions list for two years but it’s just so hard to drink water when you’re not use to it, you know?

For the most part, I feel accomplished. My migraine is now gone (thank goodness) and now I’m worried about getting things ready for the trip. I dont even know what I’m going to pack! I have no time to think, boo!

On a random note, have you ever read a book and you kinda wanted to stop reading mid-book or mid-series because it was just getting so good? I kinda feel that way now with the Sweep series lol!

And another random note… Fairy Godmother from LUSH smells delicious but its not the best scent to keep in your room, it gets insanely strong.

This is insane.

Oh! And Christmas shopping is done, mostly. I have to get 3 more things and I’ll be done :) I wish I could had enjoyed the holiday spirit more this year, this month flew right by me thanks to planning this wedding (though I cant really complain, I’m getting my dream winter wedding and my navy blue with silver dream wedding)! I hope next year I’ll be able to be more into the holiday spirit and actually get our tree up (I wasnt able to this year, sadly) and bake delicious cookies and make cute little crafty things and just enjoy everything.

Martin hugged me one night and told me “did you know, we’ll be starting the new year as a family? We wont just be saying it anymore, it’ll actually be true this time”. And that made me happy. Like everyone else who knows us, we already feel like we’re married. But know that we will actually be a family does make me feel warm inside :)

He’s determined to make next year happy for me, my happy 25. I’ve been dreading turning 25 since I had a nervous break down when I turned 20! Haha. Goodness, he’s put up with my random outbursts for such a long time. I think its cute and sweet of him to make sure that me turning 25 wont be such a big deal and I’m so thankful that he cares that much.

This one day we were at the mall and we were walking out of this kiddie/anime store and there was a scroll poster on the wall and one of the guys who are in the Kingdom Hearts Organization XIII looks like Sephiroth (a Final Fantasy video game character), well, in my opinion. So I get them mixed up. Martin’s a big Sephiroth fan (I personally dont like him) and so I was pointing to it and I said “hey, isnt that your friend?” and he was like “no, that’s not him” and I was like “oh… I tried” and we were walking away from the store and I was thinking about my ex who probably woulda bit off my head for not being “smart” enough to know the difference and Martin squeezed me and said “I’m not mad, I’m not like your ex. I dont expect you to remember all of these things” sometimes I think he can hear my thoughts. But I do love that I dont have to pretend to be some video game expert to keep him happy and I’m glad that the things I do know, he’s excited to teach me :)

I’m working my way though the Sweep series, I’m on book 7 (The Calling) right now and I’m fighting the urge to go continue reading it lol. I’m sad that I’m almost done with the series! I’ll try to post up a few reviews (I think I reviewed the first one, though I’m not sure). I think my blog could us a few more pictures anyway :)

I’m also suppose to be finishing up some packages that I’m gonna have to send out on Monday, and I’m not haha. I’m lazy! And it’s cold! I’ll finish them soon though. Its not much left to get done, but still a bit. Hopefully Monday will the be the last busy day before Christmas! Next year, I’m not going to forget to get my holiday shopping done in November! Haha.

I have to pick up my dress this week (ahh, finally!) and Martin has to pick up his wedding band, mine isnt done yet :( I hope it gets done soon! Gotta finish up the favors, mail in the payment for the reception, order the cake and I think that might be it. Am I really all done?!

The cold is making me lazy, I’ve been getting out of bed passed noon! I hate that, I feel like I just slept away half my day. Goodness. I’ve been trying to squeeze in as much time as I can reading Sweep, I’m on the 6th book: Awakening. I love this series, I’m sad I’m almost half way done with it. I read the back of the last book and now I’m itching to get through the rest of the books, but not at the same time. Darn.

I need to do a little more Christmas shopping, though I have no idea what I’m looking for. At least its just for my parents and I also have to pick up a gift for Mae too!

I’m thinking of baking some Christmas cupcakes today! But we’ll see how that goes. I got some Red Velvet Cookies from Lucky’s yesterday. I wonder how those will be. I wish I had more time to get into the holiday spirit this year, poop! I totally will next year though! I have so much to do to prep for the new year. New Years is probably one of my top favorite holidays even though its not a really epic celebration. But new beginnings is something that Aries are attracted to :)

My mom added me on Facebook, how odd lol.

Gonna go read some more of Sweep before I go pick up Martin :)