I'm not skipping Thanksgiving

Well today I got a Peppermint Mocha on my way to work. I heard someone say there is just no logic behind waiting until after Thanksgiving to start enjoying Christmas. We all know I'm very type A and do things a very particular way. Since I've been out of my parents house I've been waiting until exactly the day after Thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas, have a Christmas treat, listen to a Christmas song, etc. But you know, I agree with that girls statement. Christmas is my favorite time of year. And it's a short time of year. So why not enjoy it for as long as possible?! And lets face it. One of the things I'm most thankful for is Christmas! So it makes sense :) I couldn't find a cute Christmas background yet, so the black and white with a couple of images will have to do for now. So anyway, I hope your autumn is filled with joy and peace and Christmas cheer!

November 4, 2008.

History was made.

We're actually doing something

You should hear our weekend conversations. After we've been piddling around the house or yard for a while one of us will say "so what do you want to do?" I'm sure you can guess the response. "I don't know, what do you want to do?" Let me just say we are not that great at figuring out what to do. But we've decided something fun for weekends, we're going to try a new place to eat every weekend. Cool, huh?! Last weekend we went to this new restaurant downtown in a fancy building. It's called Nosh. It was very pretty and artsy and even the food was artsy. And small. But it was still yummy! And they had a flyer for their Holiday Dinner and Wine event. Jeff saw it and said, "this would be cool. And we'd actually be doing something!" So we signed up for our reservation. I'm pretty excited. I think I'll even get dressed up. And it's our 5 month anniversary, so that's pretty cute, too.

Making History

We sent in our mail in ballots yesterday. Pretty exciting!

Beware of my eye

No seriously. These pictures are kind of icky. I've had this redness in my eye for 2-3 weeks. But last weekend when Jeff was looking at it he said "I think it's a bump." Really? Yikes! I decided to go to the optomologist. She said it's a cyst. She prescribed some eye drops and if they don't help it by tomorrow I'll have to go to a different sort of doctor, but that it's nothing to worry about. A cyst?! Well, I confess, I'm worried. And paranoid. I keep thinking I can feel it, even though I can't at all. And I think I'm giving myself headaches over it. And I swear it's growing and soon it will cover my whole eye! We'll see what happens when I go back in tomorrow. So far the drops aren't affecting it at all :(






It looks so much worse in person. That red spot is really sort of yellow with dark red all around it and it's raised. YUCK.

Routine

I'm not a morning person, are you? But it helps a lot if I get into my normal routine. Have you ever noticed that? Maybe it goes along with the type A part of my personality. So Jeff kisses me goodbye, I get out of bed, make the bed, take a shower, turn on the radio so I can listen to NPR, start blow-drying my hair, go turn on the coffee, finish blow-drying my hair, get get a cup of coffee, straighten my hair, get dressed, grab lunch and my to go bag and everything else I need for the day, and hit the road. I even have a road routine! I turn on 99.9 to listen to the celebrity gossip. Hey, I have to balance out the news somehow! I even usually switch lanes in the same places and put the sun visor down at the same times. It's weird! What is your routine like? Are you as particular as me???

random

Um, how adorable is this bag? And so me! My dear sweet friend Carly and her precious mom sent it to me! They had it wrapped in cute tissue paper tied with those pink ribbons and I thought it would be so cute to tie the ribbons to the handle. I was right! So now I have a new "everyday bag" as I like to call it. Because I use it every day. THANKS SO MUCH CARLY AND JULIE!!!




Last weekend I carved a pumpkin into a Jack-o-Lantern. It was pretty fun. And humorous for Jeff, I think. He watched me. I kept giggling to myself because it was fun and I was having a good time making this guy's face. So it probably won't last until Halloween, but at least it will last forever on my blog! Aren't his eyebrows just the best touch? I've never done one with eyebrows. I'm pretty proud of myself!