Eat.Pray.Drink.Love

M's blog reminds me of all the thoughts I had in the last couple days. My thoughts in fast forward. There was the couple who had two children under two years old. The older baby sat at the table crying. Not like how a baby cries, but how I feel when I want to cry when I'm frustrated. It was super hilarious. He was super cute even though I wasn't in the mood for listening to a baby cry.

Last night all I wanted to do was go sledding. That was at 9pm and I knew I didn't have time to go. Not to mention the snow was too wet. It wouldn't have been enjoyable. But I sure thought about it all day. I plan on going maybe tomorrow. I would have gone this evening if I didn't have a headache. I still have a headache. I don't know what from, but I'm hoping I find out soon.

The day was a blur. Not entirely, but it went by way too fast.

I didn't know there was a bilberry. Yeup. I had a couple beer. I didn't enjoy them but I drank them anyway. While I ate dip, while I am still watching Eat.Pray.Love. Although I lost my attention when I turned on my laptop. I needed to find a cupcake recipe. The beauty of the internet. You really don't have to buy anything sometimes ie. a recipe book. I found exactly what I was looking for. The drawback it didn't say how much the recipe yields. I guess it doesn't matter. I'm making tiny cupcakes. I'm not sure how long to bake them for. This will be interesting to say the least. I don't even have a tupperware container to bring them to work in. Durrrrrrrrrrrrr!

And I lost my attention span for writing.

I ate. I prayed. Sort of. I drank. I didn't love. But that's easy. Maybe. Nope. Self love? Even harder. I will finish my Christmas novel. And then David Sedaris telling Christmas stories. I LOOK FORWARD TO IT!!

Cheers! And have one for me.

All I Want For Christmas Is You.

I thought I had blogged sooner than a month ago. A lot has happened as per usual. I didn't finish a book, but I watched a lot of movies. I've had the intention of wrtiting, but I send out so many e-mails on a daily basis at work, that my need to write is sorrily diminished.

I've become accustomed to my blackberry and prior to that my iPod touch. For the most part I don't have to add punctuations, it autocorrects for me. Sadly, in my e-mail writing I forget this and have to add my punctuations in. I've also gotten used to shifting to hit the period, but alas on a keyboard it happens to be > which litter my screen if I'm not watching.

The holiday season has begun and I think maybe I'll briefly chat about that. I had originally decorated my tree in my apartment the night before I started at Hatch. I was nervous and had a stomach ache and I needed to distract myself. Turned out I hated my tree. Like hated it. Last Sunday I corrected it. I used my sister's light pink and ivory ribbons to fill in the tree since my cheap 20$ tree is very thin; branch volume wise. And then I put on a few more bigger decorations that are entirely unrelated to cupcakes. After fixing it I no longer loathe it, but adore it's cuteness. Thursday we had my Dad's bf and wife come pick us up in their truck to pick up our real Christmas tree for my mother's house. She ended up getting them to cut off two feet off the beautiful 9' foot tree it orginally was. She removed probably $40 off the tree by cutting so much off. We laughed about it. When we got it back to the house, Ron and my Mom put the tree in the stand.

This became very emotional for me. Last year my Mom and I had picked up the tree and were attempting to put the tree in the stand when my Dad decided to help. Well, he ended up ruining the tree. My mom kicked him and Ron out of the house as we tried to restore what was left of the tree. We ended up cutting a foot off the tree to compensate for what my Dad ruined. So on Thursday we joked about it. There was a moment where we thought we weren't going to get the tree sturdy and Ron kindly reminded us that Dad would have used string to fasten it to the wall. For some reason this got to me and I lost my attention on directing how to make the tree straight. Thankfully we finished it and I didn't have to pretend that I wasn't upset.

Friday I helped decorate the tree as we listened to J's Christmas music. I had attention for this task for about 30 minutes. We hate chocolate, or well I did basically, had some nog, watched a cheesy Christmas movie that I slept through and napped on the couch until midnight where I finally dragged my ass home to bed.

That concludes my Christmas festivities. I'm not sure how many more I'll have. I ended up coming home and crying my eyes out on Friday. Yay me. So I think less is more and all I am really up for. Which is why I continue to put off finishing my Christmas shopping. I'm not buying any gifts for a man this year, and it hurts. I never really knew what to get him. He never took any of it home and complained about everything. Regardless, I would like the opportunity to struggle thinking of ideas than not having the option at all. I had no intention of going in this direction for a post but I went there so I might as well continue. Because this is the reality of my Christmas this year.

My favourite Christmas song happens to be All I Want For Christmas. I've always wanted to sing this to someone after watching Love Actually. It hasn't happened yet. There is plenty of time. For some reason this song still applies to how a feel this year, just not in a romantic way. In fact you could take all the romantic bits out. Either way I love this song through and through. I also love Taylor Swift's version of Last Christmas. I haven't done this either. But I'm reading this quaint chic lit novel about a Mexican decent woman from New Mexico who goes on 3 dates each with these 3 cousins named after the three kings. The book being cleverly called The Three Kings. If I finish the book before Friday, anyone wanting to borrow it, please let me know! If I would stop writing, make supper and watch a movie I could get back to reading it. Which are my plans for my super lazy and relaxing Sunday, although it would have been better if my lovely sister would have let me sleep more than 5 hours. I loved the phone call nonetheless my dear.

I'm sure I'll have another festive blog before the new year. I've ordered Christmas cookies from the Atrium which I will be giving out to some select people, as well as partaking in my office Holiday Potluck. Which is my first btw. I'm excited. The office I work in has a great atmosphere and is a great change of pace in my life which I definitely needed to get my life on the right track.

Cheers!