Friday, November 30, 2012
Another one Bites the Dust
So another month has quickly disappeared! Christmas shopping madness is fully underway. We're mostly done, with just a few odds and ends to get still. Now the packages are rolling in like crazy. I'm still having everything delivered to my parents' house. So today I picked up five boxes and I'll be going over later to pick up about 5 or 6 more. Then the rest will straggle in next week but that should be the bulk of them. Two weeks from tomorrow, we leave for our honeymoon. Crazy how time flies! Today was my day off work so I got a couple errands done this morning, started working on my name change. Then I was a waste of life for the rest of the day. As in, two hour nap sort of waste of life. Now I'm waiting for the husband to come home and probably will be wrapping the other presents that come in today. We've mostly settled in and I would like to unpack the rest of the kitchen things tonight. This is our weekend of NOTHING. We have weight watchers in the morning, but otherwise it should be a relaxing weekend. I need to pick out a few recipes to try this weekend and get some groceries. I'm thinking I'll make a 2 week menu to give us enough to eat until we leave and then restock food when we get back. Although maybe not even then since it's the week of insanity once we get back (birthday, Christmas, my friend's wedding weekend), so that may be a week of sandwiches and going out.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Thirty days
Wow it has been a while since I sat down and blogged. Sorry about that. Today is the 2 month marker of tim and my wedding...we haven't killed each other yet so we must be okay! We've also been in this new apartment for a month now. We still have several boxes packed but are slowly nesting. I'm definitely thinking with our next move that I want to hire some movers to load up our stuff. I'm totally ok with packing it all but my muscles still haven't gotten over moving week.
But I digress. The new place is so great. Our favorite oddball perks include a free use Flavia machine (like a Keurig but with packets instead of the k-cups) and a 24 hour gym. Tim's personal favorite thing is the valet trash service. It is pretty cool...Sunday through Thursday night we just have to put our trash outside the door by 8 PM and by 9 PM its taken away! Neat but wow I would never pay for that silliness. Speaking of which, I should probably get it out the door soon, before I forget again.
It's the thirty day marker to the Honeymoon. I'm glad that we waited a little bit before taking it, it will be such a nice break after the craziness of the last few months. Once it's over, we have my MoH's wedding and then no plans after that!
This past weekend we cooked a lot. We made Chicken and Dumplings in the crockpot and then the hubs made a small vat of French Dip in the crockpot Monday. The Au Jus wasn't quite right so that's a recipe that I may have to rework before sharing. The Chicken and Dumplings (highly altered from the original) recipe will be posted here soon. I do want to have another go at it and make it more soupy (not so...chicken pot pie sort of consistency) and lighten it up a smidgeon.
Thankfully, today was my last day of work for the week. My brain is kaput. Tomorrow is finally my post-wedding hair chop. I'm so excited to get rid of my stale hair cut. I go between 2 main styles...SHORT and LONG. Short has a lot of layers and is kinda funky and long is a layer about shoulder length and the other is however long my hair is. My hair person wants to do something drastic with lots of layers that isn't long or short. I don't quite understand it myself so pictures to come! Then I have a meeting with the old landlord to get the deposit back (yay extra money) and dinner with Tim's mom in the evening. Saturday we have Weight Watchers in the morning and an afternoon Turkey Trot walk. Just a little jealousy here...Life has been crazy lately (hence the not posting much lately) so my diet and exercise are all out of whack. I haven't gained a ton...3ish pounds, but I'm so stinking close to my goal that its making me be in a funk. Tim on the other hand has lost 11 pounds since we got marriage. Soooo not right. I'm having him put chips up really high in the pantry for me now. It's nice being married to someone a few inches taller than me for stuff like this...versus my constantly jumping up and down on a step stool to do the same thing.
Derailed again. Right. Saturday we also need to get some groceries and if I don't have time Friday, stopping at the bank as well. Sunday I have my dress fitting for my MoH's wedding and then a mulling wine tasting with some friends in the afternoon. Then just 3 days of work and Turkey Day!!
But I digress. The new place is so great. Our favorite oddball perks include a free use Flavia machine (like a Keurig but with packets instead of the k-cups) and a 24 hour gym. Tim's personal favorite thing is the valet trash service. It is pretty cool...Sunday through Thursday night we just have to put our trash outside the door by 8 PM and by 9 PM its taken away! Neat but wow I would never pay for that silliness. Speaking of which, I should probably get it out the door soon, before I forget again.
It's the thirty day marker to the Honeymoon. I'm glad that we waited a little bit before taking it, it will be such a nice break after the craziness of the last few months. Once it's over, we have my MoH's wedding and then no plans after that!
This past weekend we cooked a lot. We made Chicken and Dumplings in the crockpot and then the hubs made a small vat of French Dip in the crockpot Monday. The Au Jus wasn't quite right so that's a recipe that I may have to rework before sharing. The Chicken and Dumplings (highly altered from the original) recipe will be posted here soon. I do want to have another go at it and make it more soupy (not so...chicken pot pie sort of consistency) and lighten it up a smidgeon.
Thankfully, today was my last day of work for the week. My brain is kaput. Tomorrow is finally my post-wedding hair chop. I'm so excited to get rid of my stale hair cut. I go between 2 main styles...SHORT and LONG. Short has a lot of layers and is kinda funky and long is a layer about shoulder length and the other is however long my hair is. My hair person wants to do something drastic with lots of layers that isn't long or short. I don't quite understand it myself so pictures to come! Then I have a meeting with the old landlord to get the deposit back (yay extra money) and dinner with Tim's mom in the evening. Saturday we have Weight Watchers in the morning and an afternoon Turkey Trot walk. Just a little jealousy here...Life has been crazy lately (hence the not posting much lately) so my diet and exercise are all out of whack. I haven't gained a ton...3ish pounds, but I'm so stinking close to my goal that its making me be in a funk. Tim on the other hand has lost 11 pounds since we got marriage. Soooo not right. I'm having him put chips up really high in the pantry for me now. It's nice being married to someone a few inches taller than me for stuff like this...versus my constantly jumping up and down on a step stool to do the same thing.
Derailed again. Right. Saturday we also need to get some groceries and if I don't have time Friday, stopping at the bank as well. Sunday I have my dress fitting for my MoH's wedding and then a mulling wine tasting with some friends in the afternoon. Then just 3 days of work and Turkey Day!!
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