My Insanity

So, last night I got home from our awesome thanksgiving celebration, got into my jammies and started make a small plan for black Friday shopping. I've never done it, but saw some deals that were tough to pass up.

Then I notice that Toys R Us is actually openning at midnight (which just happens to be in about 30 minutes). So on a spur of the moment, I decided to go to it. Of course, I was thinking it's not gonna be that busy. Most people are probably going in the morning, right? Wow is all I can say. When I get there, people are lined up all the way down the whole strip of stores! I decided to give it a shot anyways - maybe the line will move quickly. It was raining and I don't know what got into me, but I waited for 2 hours! Standing in the rain outside of toys r us for TWO hours. I don't know what got I to me.

When I finally get in there, I (of course) can only find one thing that I wanted to buy - ONE $20 item. Dear LORD! I go to get in line (vowing to myself to never do this again) and find that the line weaves all the way around the store. It will likely be a 2 hour wait here too. Finally, I come to m senses (sort of) and realize how ridiculous it is. I put my one item down and make a run for it. As I'm walki g to my car (totally pissed off), I start to realize that it's now 2:45 am. Walmart is right next store & had most of the same things on sale. If I go home, I am not going to come back out, but I do NOT want to go ho e empty handed after all of this. So, I decided to sleep in my car for a couple of hours then hit the Walmart black Friday sale. Yes, I am an idiot. I was not thinking in my right mind.

So, I sleep for about an hour & realize that walmart is letting people inside already. So, I get up & go into the store to realize that people are grabbing all of the sale stuff up NOW, but just won't check out until 5. At this point I'm commited to this. I have already done ridiculous things. I. Will. Come. Home. With. Something!

I got my few things and sucked another couple of hours doing it. I saved a total of $36. Wow. Reality is smacking me in the face. I am not made for this shit. And $36 is not worth 5 1/2 hours! However, at least I came home with something. I got home around 5:30 am and went directly to bed. I slept til 12:30 and can now see all of my ridiculousness clearly.

What's new, what's new

I always feel like I'm catching up on here. Maybe it's because I'm too busy living. Maybe it's because I'm lazy or uninspired. Maybe it's because I just plain forget. Yeah, it's probably a little bit of all of them. Oh well. Here goes:

I have been making a 2010 calendar for my family in the midwest for christmas. On a purely physical level - it's been kind of wild to see how far Aaron & I have come! I mean, just look at this.

It was shocking to see this picture. I didn't see myself like that before. It really is like looking with new eyes. I guess we've had our own 'Biggest Loser' going on around here this year. Except it's taken us 10 months rather than 10 weeks on the show ;-)

In other news, we are headed to Disneyland in less than 2 weeks! Yahoo! I will be sharing TONS of pics when we get back! We have been planning this for a year and a half, and it's finally sinking in that we're actually GOING!

In an effort to save money, we decided to take care of our gargantuan piles of leaves ourselves this year. We've gotten the back yard done, but apologize sincerely to our neighbors for our front yard. Hopefully, this will be the week we get it done.

We sent our good friends, Steve & Morgan, off to Nashville last week. It was terribly sad (for us). Of course, we sent them off in style with a couple of parties and then we helped them pack all of their stuff into a truck. I am excited for them too. I know that this is what they really need to do for themselves. No 'what ifs' and all of that. But, I'm sad for me. I'm sad that after the years of prayer, tears, and utter joys that we have shared over their beautiful little girl that is FINALLY here we will miss out on seeing her grow in the next who-knows-how-long. I KNOW what moving does. I've done it several times. It doesn't mean you don't love them, but it does change things. We all change and grow, which is good. Distance just makes it harder to 'get it'. So, for me it's been a little bit of a mourning period too. I am excited for them, but I'm sad for me. It's okay - it's life. But these are the times, I wish 'tele-porting' was a real thing!

That's all for now, I've got to get my kids to preschool!

31 and stuff

I am officially 31. My mom came to visit me too, which was so fun! We drank tons of coffee, and gabbed 'til we could gab no longer. We shopped and shopped. We even went bra shopping and ended up buying the same one, just in different colors! Isn't that funny? I guess the apple doesn't fall far or something - HA! THEN, I found out that my mom suggested the same bra to my mother in law, and SHE ended up buying the same bra too! How funny! I went to tell my husband this funny fact, and he didn't seem to appreciate it's humor. Instead, he plugged his ears & yelled "GAH". I guess it was TMI. :-)

For the rest of the time my mom was here, she would smile & say 'sit up straight & boobs out. They look so good after all'. Hehehe. I just love my mom! She's hilarious!

So, I'm 31 - which I am indifferent about. Just another year. Isn't it funny how some years are a bigger deal than others?!

The count down to disneyland has begun though - less than a month to go! YAY! Now, if only we could get a big influx of cash. It'd be SO helpful! :-)