recipe for disaster

The vile ingredients for that would be a money funk and the general holiday stress. My head is kind of all over the place lately. I wish I had something brilliant to fill your heads with, but I do not. My own head is much too full.

The weather is cold, just how I've wanted it for so long.

Highlight of my day today? A dressed-up Santa on the side of the road at the plant nursery waving as cars passed. I waved back and smiled, so did he. I think I wanted to pull over, hop out of my car frantically, and dump my chaotic mess of a head onto him. Then maybe give him a giant hug.

That entree would be desperation, with a dash of loneliness.

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2007 Awards

(since I haven't much peace of mind for any other sort of post)

1) DRINKING BUDDY OF THE YEAR?
Staci

2) LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD (longest friend)
Kenneth

3) NEWCOMER AWARD - COOLEST NEWEST FRIEND?
Probably Drake, he's the coolest friend I've made in the past year or two.

3) HIGH POINT OF THE YEAR?
Seeing Seattle, Flying for the first time, Joining a gym, Losing some weight

4) LOW POINT OF THE YEAR?
Severe jet-lag after Seattle, being alone while Kenneth was in Dallas, Kenneth losing contest

5) BEST HOLIDAY?
Christmas this year will hopefully be cool, the day of.

6) YOUR SONG FOR 2007?
"Code Red" Tori Amos, "All I need" Radiohead, "Hey Jude" Beatles

7) MOVIE FOR 2007?
I loved 'Across the Universe', 'Transformers', 'Gone Baby Gone'. Sure I'm leaving something great out.

8) BEST SEASON THIS YEAR?
Fall/Winter

9) BEST MONTH?
Probably November (I can't remember the early months much anyway)

11) BEST RELATIONSHIP?
The ones I have with my two boys :)

12) WHAT WERE YOU FOR HALLOWEEN?
Nothing. Or rather, myself. :(

13) RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR?
Jalisco Grill forever baby

14) BEST DECISION MADE THIS YEAR?
To join a gym

15) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR?
Umm... live?

16) MOST STUPID IDEA WHEN DRUNK?
Have no clue, I have good ideas when drunk.

19) TV SHOW OF THE YEAR?
Survivor!

20) MOST LOYAL FRIEND?
S, K, V

21) BIGGEST CHANGE OF THE YEAR?
Traveling cross-country for the first time. Adapting to hectic travel plans. New store manager.

22) BIGGEST douche bag AWARD?
My manager has his moments, so him.
OH let's not forget my step mother in law.

23) NEW YEAR RESOLUTION?
Be good to myself, in general.
Make a financial plan for myself.. saving/organizing etc. STRESS to reduce stress... Sheesh.

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I'm still alive

I've taken to a Playstation game called "sing star". I founded my inner rockstar while playing "rock band" with our friends the other week. I was addicted to singing into the mic. I got a 100% (score is based mostly on pitch) on 3 songs including the yeah yeah yeahs, garbage, and the killers. I was high off of singing, I'm telling you. So my hubby bought me an early birthday gift the other day, "sing star". It comes with a mic, a smaller, less expensive version of rock band in a way. Thing is, the game comes with about only 30-35 songs. I got "Amped" version thinking it was the coolest, which it is pretty damn cool. Then I sung all of those songs and wanted more, more, more. So I've become my husband, addicted to a video game. He caved last night at Toys R' Us and got me the "Pop" version so I'd have more songs. He's got a soft spot in his heart for any love I have for video games in general, he eats it up. So I sung my lungs out last night. I jammed to Pearl Jam's "alive", Cyndi Lauper, some of The Fray, even fucking Britney Spears. HA! It's been fun for me, a new hobby if you will. Just you wait, by next week you'll hear me googling about instrumental tracks and a real live amp and mic. This love is evolving rampantly.

I'm off work today and skipping my weekly kick boxing class due to sore throat and lack of rest. For some ungodly reason, my son woke me up at 2am to watch cartoons. Oh.. my.. God. Talk about an interruption in sleep. So I woke up feeling unrested and achy. I think I'll go to the gym later today during downtime after I've gotten food and vitamins in my system and hopefully have some get-up-and-go in my blood.

Something insane I thought I'd mention, is that the temperature here in central Georgia has been hovering around the very high 70s for 3 days now. It is two weeks until Christmas, and I'm wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and flip-flops to Target. It's just wrong

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parade

Sheesh, I haven't updated this thing in a few days, have I?

My weekend was pretty work-filled. They always are, as I work overnights every Saturday. I stay exhausted and crabby usually on weekends, the two days are definitely not my fun time. My TGIF is more like TGIT, on Tuesday.

However, we did take my son to my city's Christmas Parade on Saturday. It was enjoyable but my butt hurt something fierce by the time an hour and a half passed and I was able to get up off the curb where we were sitting.
Jared the Subway guy was there! I thought that was pretty cool. There was also this guy who makes his own bicycle contraptions who was turning somersaults in the street. Very interesting. And my hubby got a picture with a storm trooper.

I can't believe it's December already. Nearly 2008. Where does it go..

I've been going to the gym for an entire month already. I've increased weight on about four of the machines I use. I amaze myself sometimes, I suppose I was pretty strong to start with. Go me.

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