high five for friday

There's no place like home. That's kind of how it feels being back to blogging and participating in h54f again.  Here's been my week this week...

Buzzed from gifting. So I mentioned this but I was a bit buzzed from the thrill of buying and gifting things to people I care about.
Pointless Meetings. Not exactly something I'm happy about, I was mandated to attend a work meeting where I was told to be at 45 minutes early, when my boss didn't show up until 5 minutes after it was supposed to start, and where I was told I wasn't supposed to say anything but just be there. But I got flex time from that so my weekend's come early today!
Laser Hair Removal. I just bought myself a discounted package to have my underarm hairs lasered off. That's right, in several months after 5 more treatments I will never have to shave my armpits again!!!! (I was entirely too excited for this first appointment to start this. Still entirely too excited for all my future appointments for this too!)
Back to blogging, hopefully. The home computer situation hasn't really been worked out yet. But I've missed blogging (even if I haven't found my direction and haven't figured out my technical difficulties in formatting this thing). So I'm sneaking time at my work computer to try to get back into blogging.
We're alive/The end of the world didn't happen. So yeah, that didn't happen. Glad to still be around!

Because I'm in a giving mood (more like because I just saw this and wanted to share it with others in the hope that you'll laugh like I did), here's a little something:

 Source: via someecards via someone's facebook

linked up to Lauren/frommygreydeskblog's High Five For Friday

 

it's the end of the world as we know it....

So the world is going to end tomorrow, well that's what some people are saying.

Credit: via google images via wnd.com

 "Stormy Smith here with your weather. It'll be rainy and cool this week, then we'll all die and the earth will burn up Friday. No need to predict what the weather will be like Saturday since no one will be around!"

Credit: Via google images via this tumblr 

 Queen and the apocalypse, makes you laugh and cry all at once. 

Why it's okay if the world ends tomorrow
- I'll have ended my last day having happy hour with Hubby and his friends. Laughter and yummy bar food appetizers. That's okay by me.
- I didn't have to wait until I was using my walker with tennis balls on it walking down the hallway of my nursing home to find my husband. (I totally was afraid of that scenario as a child.)
- I did my nails last night so I'll have pretty, well manicured finger nails. 
- Tonight I'll go to bed snuggled with my cutie pie angel face puppy, Zoe, and my amazing Hubby. I'll sleep well, even if I'm woken up by fire and brimstone coming to announce the world is ending.
- I won't have to worry about being a "fattie" and loosing weight anymore. (We'll all be our ideal weights in heaven, right?!)

credit: via someecards.com

Sad but true, why I'd not survive the apocalypse.

Disclaimer: I do not believe the world will actually be ending. This is all supposed to be in good fun, not meant to actually scare or worry anyone. Kind of like the whole Y2K thing, or you know any of the gazillion times people have proclaimed the rapture was going to come. 

No lie to combat all the question NASA's been asked about end of the world issues they've created an FAQ page on all of them! Go visit NASA's website if you need real science based reasons why there's no need to really freak out.

 

Linking up (for the first time) to It's Okay Thursdays at A Complete Waste of Makeup

 

gifting thrill

Saturday I shopped until I dropped. Seriously. I was wearing cute yet comfortable clothes/shoes and I was dead on my feet by the time I got home. I was out all day shopping for the hubby. Like a spoiled 7 year old he presented me a long list of gift ideas. 

I'd had car troubles last week so I hadn't been able to start shopping off his list yet. Saturday I told him I loved him but Santa's elf needed to get down to business and from 10 AM until 7:30 PM were did our own things. 

Let me tell you Hubby is one lucky man. The things I didn't gift him, my parents decided to. He's getting just about everything on his list. Seriously. I'm trying to think of things he didn't tell me about to add underneath the tree! I just can't help myself, I want to make him happy. I love this season, passing it forward to those you care about (and those you don't know if you partake in a random act of kindness). There's that special type of happiness you get out of it. 

Tonight I've got to handle all the (good) ladies in my office this year. Sadly several would deserve the proverbial lump of coal but the others were good and will get something sweet for their kindness. 

Have any of you caught the gifting happiness bug?

week wrap-up

1. Holiday party at a stranger's house. That's right, I not only went to a party where I knew I'd know no one (hubby doesn't count, the couple who invited us I'd met briefly one before) and I just went with it. If you knew me, you'd know that's a huge step out of my comfort zone. And know what? I had a good time. Except for the fact that the one thing that made them all friends (their mutual church) is something that'd never be something I have in common with them.
2. It's Chanukkah. I haven't really been able to celebrate this year yet but I'm going to try. And thankfully this bad boy is 8 nights so I have a little time left to celebrate. Last night I did make latkes and it was a pain because I only have baby potatoes but it was soooooo worth it, they're delicious!
3. Bringing Willpower Back. At my office we get a lot of gifted holiday treats, desserts and sweets like crazy in December. Monday we got a box of cookies. I ate a piece of some fruit bar looking thing, decided it wasn't worth it and threw the rest out. Wednesday we got a tub of cookies from Costco (that I know firsthand are amazing) and Thursday we got containers of cinnamon buns. I didn't eat any of those! 
4. Apples. I love apples, I love fruit. But apples I have a love hate relationship with. I'll be all about them and then get tired of them. And then I'll eat another and remember how much I love them. I'm back to loving them right now. (Because I left one in my office fridge ages ago and when I ran out of snacks it was still there, still good, and yummy!)

5. Food, we need to talk. (aka I have a problem). That's the first step to recovery right? Somehow me and food don't yet have a healthy working relationship, 26 years and still no luck. I've eaten way too little and lost weight, but not happy with eating how I had as a lifestyle. So then I'll rebounding and try to eat more "normal". For the past few months I've tried the "normal" with a few splurges thing and it's clearly not worked. I gained 18 pounds this past year (with minor losses and gains in-between, I gained at least 3 pounds since Thanksgiving!). I wish I could say I ate everything I wanted this past year (and it was worth it) but that's not true. That was me half assed trying! So I'm going to try with more purpose and planning and see what happens. Because I'm not happy right now.



Linked up to High Five For Friday (even though this isn't a celebrate the week kind of post).

 

Premium channels I love thee!

So Comcast is more fun than Dish because of OnDemand. But then agian they're less fun because it took them almost 2 1/2 months to get our TV right and I think it's "fixed" totally by accident now. But Comcast is also fun because we got HBO for free for 3 months for starting with them and then Showtime for free for 3 months because they messed up. So I've got movie channels, for the first time in FOUR years. I'm so freaking happy over this it's sad. (When facing financial difficulties it takes almost financial ruin for me to consider giving up cable, it's a necessity for me, I know that's bad but I know it is and work around it.) 

I've gone premium channel happy. I've literally watched two entire series. 

The Newsroom, which I really enjoyed. I don't agree with the bad reviews it got, but all the same it's enjoyable to watch!

Source: google images via The Hollywood Reporter

And Homeland, which is addicting! I can't wait for the season finale of Homeland, what is going to happen!?!!

Source: google images via ScreenInvasion


I caught up on the entire last season of True Blood, that was ... interesting. And I've also been watching movies in between all of this. (In addition to regular tv) I've been able to OnDemand or DVR several movies these last few weeks. The ones I wanted to see when they came out but I was too busy, cheap and/or lazy to go out and see? Yeah I've seen a bunch of those. Reel Steel (not so great even with hunky Hugh Jackman, but still okay) and In Time (so bad I couldn't believe but still we watched the whole thing) are the first two to come to mind. I've got DVR timers set for at least a few more coming up in the next few days. You better believe I'm going to use this free programing as much as I can! The worst part, I'm almost seriously considering keeping one channel when the free trial ends (but can't decide which one and how I'll reason spending for it).

boots update

My Mom is amazing. Okay that's out of the way. 

I told her I was thinking about a pair of BP Nordstrom boots she rushed out to the store (even with pre-Thanksgiving shopping mess) at one of the busiest malls in the entire state of Florida just to get them for me. And then took pictures of them on her own feet to double check I was still interested. Anyway, the sad news is that as pretty as they were my calves are simply too big. They zipped, barely (I did totally hold my breath and hope that somehow that'd mean I wouldn't zip my actual leg) and certainly not with enough room to tuck any pants into them. And isn't that 80% the point of owning boots!?! So those were a no go, I'm just not sure what pair to try next. Oh and looking at the measurements of the three boots on my boots hit list the Steve Madden and Nine West are two small for me! The Aerosoles are too tall, shortie here can't wear boots that are meant to be over the knee for regular sized people!

Boot body count: 2 tried on, 5 no goes

Minor Update

So after spending WAY too much money and several days of changing responses I've got two working computers, so of, not really. The desktop is too old to do anything else more to. In fact the new plan is to wipe it clean and try to sell it, because apparently it's only good for surfing the internet now. We've got a working laptop but Hubby keeps needing it which means I haven't really used it since it came back into our house working again.

Which means we're getting closer to resolving our technical issues but not entirely there.

I'm still reading and loving all the other blogs out there that inspired me to try one of my own. And while it's fun to read what everyone is saying and up to it makes me feel less motivated for my own. I'm still not entirely sure what this blog will be/is all about. Without a concrete direction I'm floundering (forgetting technically issues preventing me from posting lately). And if I don't know what I want how am I to expect anyone out there on the interwebs to want to visit (let alone come back again)!? These are all my stupid first world struggles right now. I'll try to work through it and just wing it and get back to trying when things settle back out with the laptop.

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving. The holiday season is officially upon us. From me (and my family) to you and your family: Happy Holidays!