Chirstmas in photos

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas / PC Holiday and Happy New Year.

I'll share a few of my favorite photos.

The Nephew with his AWESOME (not so much) voice changing toy. Which he decided to use while yelling in my face, "Please get my remote control car out of the box! (Repeat, repeat....I think you get it). Like it's not hard enough to get toys out of the box with all the twisty ties, tape, and SCREWS they use to hold them in. Needless to say this was Aunt McMean's least favorite toy


The super YUMMY dinner we had Christmas Eve at my best friends house. She flew in from Denver and I hadn't seen in her in a YEAR! It was the best gift ever (she reads this)


BB's girlfriend about to POP! We are officially on baby watch. Any day now the Doctor said little Sarah can come out and play. Come on kid, get here already I'm tired of all the hype. Please I can't wait to see your mom's head explode when she takes you home!! LOL.


And it wouldn't be a post with a picture of heart breaker. This was him in the first snow we had this winter. Preggers and i laid him down in the snow and tortured, I mean took his picture.

Next year I will.........

WOW I haven't blogged in 3 weeks! I'm such a bad blogger! Time just seems to get away from me these days. Usually I don't even know what day it is. There was a time when i blogged EVERYDAY, sometimes TWICE. Now I'm lucky if i can squeeze in 2 posts a month. I wish I could say it's because I'm so busy with GOOD stuff in my life I just can't find the time. Alas, that is not the case. I'm so busy with work that I can't find time to breath, let alone blog. Some would say that's a good thing, at least I have a job, I would say I miss the time before SEPTEMBER when I only worked 5 days a week as opposed to know when i work 6. :-(

But I'm back now. And what better time to make my comeback then on Writers Workshop Thursday. Mama Kat (love the new layout, hey I've been gone awhile) posted these new prompts.

1.) Your pet wants to guest post on your blog.
(inspired by Matthew at Child’s Play x2)

2.) You wake up one day with an unusual super power that seems pretty worthless—until you are caught in a situation that requires that specific “talent.”
(inspired by Writer’s Digest)

3.) Write about a speech you gave at a wedding.

4.) Write a letter to someone you received poor customer service from.
(inspired by Lynsey from Sassy & Southern)

5.) This time I really MEAN it! It’s time to list your New Year’s resolutions for 2010.
(inspired by Margaret from Nanny Goats In Panties)

I hate public speaking. HATE it. alas I'm always the Maid of honor never the bride, so I've given my fair share of speech's. However If my BFF ever gets married I REFUSE to give a speech, she doesn't know that yet, but I do. I'll never make it through, can't do it, so No thank you.

5.)So this year I REALLY MEAN IT!

1. This year I will go back to the gym. I love the gym, I love how i feel when i leave. I love working out my stress. But it's just so easy NOT to go, I tend to forget how much i LOVE going.
2. I wont feel bad for eating what I want. I've been going to weight watchers and have lost 15lbs. since October. I'm happy and I wont feel bad for eating a fat juicy cheeseburger on Saturday and using ALL my EXTRA points to cover it.
   
3. I wont let the people that I've trusted this year who hurt me to prevent me from trusting new people.
4. I'll try to believe people when they say nice things about me.
   
5. I WONT watch anymore "HOUSEWIVES" series or spin offs........ok I'll TRY not to at least. But really those people are so hard NOT to watch.
6. I'll stop biting my nails.
7. I'll try to eat more GREEN LEAFY VEGGIES so I'm not so anemic anymore.
8. I'll start looking for a new job, something I might not hate.
9. I'll drink ALL of the TheraFlu in the recommended 10 minute time limit.
10. I['ll wait till the pizza, hot chocolate, cookies...etc., are cooled down before partaking in them.
    
11. I wont spend half the day thinking of ways to fake sick so i can leave work early.
12. I'll blog more
13. I wont refer to Big Brother as "The dumbass I'm related to"

I think that's enough stuff to try and really MEAN this year. wish me luck!

Happy New Year everyone. See you in 2010!

Time flies when you're BUSY

WOWSERS! I haven't blogged in WEEKS! Uhm. One would think I would have so much to say. Tales to tell. Humorous stories to relay.....alas I do not. Aside from work and sleep I don't do much of anything. My time card for the last two weeks had 100 hours on it. I SWEAR to god. 100 hours. I feel like all I do is work. Work. Work. Sleep. Work. I'm completely over IT. And Completely exhausted.

I managed a shopping trip with my friend last night. Our annual Christmas Shopping Extravaganza. I bought 1 gift and a scarf for myself. not a very good start. He bought a CD for himself. It might be we don't fully understand the concept of giving. I did pick up a cute picture frame I'm going to give to Big Brother. It says "The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree" and I have a picture of BB and my nephew to go in it. Funny to me.

Preggers and I took heart breaker out Saturday to enjoy the first snow fall.

Poor kid. Can't tell if he liked it or not. We thought it was FUNNY! He looked less amused and more concerned that we were, oh I don't know losing our minds.

Let's see anything else worth mentioning.........(thinking) I had a date, sort of. It was a come over and watch a movie kind of thing. We'll see what happens. So I guess that's all the excitement of the last few weeks. Not to much to tell. I'll hope for something more exciting to come.

Turkey, How I loath you

Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving this year. My family.....well we opted to skip it. Sort of. Look I'm in favor of skipping Thanksgiving every year. I know. I know. I would have made a horrible pilgrim. I know. But I just can't get into the whole THING. We just sit around eating food, I hate turkey that might explain my dislike for thanksgiving, and giving thanks. Doesn't make sense to me. I'm thankful all the time. I don't need one day devoted solely to being thankful. But that's just me. It might also have something to do with the whole "family togetherness thing" it's not well......so fun all the time. I really hate those tense family dinners when you are just waiting for it. Waiting for someone to say something that will set off my Dad or brother and then BAMN! We all have to endure the yelling. AHEM PASS!

Well this year, I worked, Dad Worked and Big Brother worked, so we passed. My mom bought a small turkey (10lbs. doesn't seem small) and made a few things, stuffing, potatoes, rolls, green beans, corn, gravy. Yeah she said she wasn't going to make much. But she lied. She ate alone, while watching tv I'm sure. And my dad and I made ourselves plates when we got off work around 8:30 p.m. Yeah. Happy thanksgiving.

But I hope YOU enjoyed your thanksgiving. And if you would like to see a Pro's and Con's list for Thanksgiving swing by my friends site I will warn you their sense of humor is much like mine....a tad off.

Enjoy your weekend I'll leave you with this little gem. Preggers little boy's first Christmas Photo. I here by declare he will know as heart breaker.

No more showers!

I'm done. NO MORE SHOWERS! No Wedding showers, no BABY SHOWERS, no rain showers! NO MORE. YOU hear that all my fertile friends. NO MORE SHOWERS! FOUR! 4 showers this year. NO MORE! Should have been 5 but I couldn't make the one, so I'm done. No MORE! Don't get me wrong I love me some shower cake, and note pad prizes. But no more....PLEASE. No more this year at least. Maybe we could hold off on anymore till maybe........JUNE! I think I could be ready by June.

Saturday we, meaning ME and my mom, hosted a shower for my Big Brothers girlfriend. She's due in January. It's a girl, Sarah Katharine Macneal. COULD SHE SOUND ANYMORE CATHOLIC. and we aren't even catholic. I told them she's destine to be a nun with a name like that. BB said that sounds great to him.

So back to the shower, it was a lot of work. Made worse by the fact that A LOT of people didn't RSVP! Must have thought it was optional.

WE had a ton of food. Made by my mom and I.

I decorated the place up very girly.

Made some very cute pink and brown chocolates shaped like baby animals and booties. Plus I put together the favor boxes with mints and pink Hershey kisses. and set up the very nice display.We played my favor game. Dirty Diaper. We used 6 different kinds of candy bars and melted one bar in each diaper (in the microwave) and then smashed it together, so it looked like........well poop. And then they had to try and guess what candy bar was in each diaper. It's great.

But here's what I can't figure out. WHY do people insist on doing this to the expecting mother or the bride to be.



I had no part in this. My cousin TAMMY jumped up and was like "Oh we make bow hats in this family". Why? Why do we make them wear these things???? Anyone?