Top Ten things i am thankful for...

so yesterday was thanksgiving and i have a lot thankful for:

1- My Husband! He is more than i deserve really and for the past 8 years (yikes!) he has been my bff!! Im thankful that he deals with me. I know i am tough to live with sometimes and i am thankful that he loves me just the same!! :)

2-My house! Im thankful that i have a house to call my own. Yes it is a lot of work (and money) to maintain, but I am thankful that we are able to have a place to do so.

3- My Job! I may complain about it day in and day out but bottom line, i am thankful for it. Its better than any job i have ever had, its in my field(ish) and it pays my bills. With the economy the way it is I am very lucky to still have a job!

4- My husbands job! I may worry every day of my life about him in his line of work but i am thankful he is doing something he not only loves but also helps other people. Im proud of you hunny! :)

5- My Family! My family is very supportive and always there when i need them. I am very lucky to have such a great family!

6- My friends! Im lucky to have some really great friends who keep me sane(ish) when i get stressed out or just need a good laugh :)

7- My new focus! It was sad to say good bye to the Neon, but the new car is the best! Its great on gas, has power windows AND locks and satellite radio and ambient lighting! lol. Yes it is selfish, but i love it and am thankful for my new wheels!

8- My Dog! She may be a huge brat some times, but im thankful to have such an awesome pup to come home to everyday and snuggle with.

9- That i am NOT a mom! I know this one seems weird, but i am thankful that i do not have a bratty mouth to feed, or a needy child. Maybe some day, but in this point in life i am thankful to be married withOUT children!

10- My health! Growing up i was sick (thyroid) and had to go to the docs every other week. I am thankful that is over with and i am able to live a normal, happy life.

weekend!

Yesterday i decided i wanted to kick it into high gear and get some christmas shopping done! My mom and dad were going shopping and asked if i wanted to tag along. I am never one to pass on a shopping trip, so i got my ass out of bed and started my shopping. We headed to the new Wareham crossing. It was actually really nice and not all that busy. I go a few things for the hubby and then we headed to the LL Bean Outlet. Here i bought TWO boat and tote bags for 7.50 each!! I used one as my shopping bag for the day! i bought tons of stuff and ended up with ZERO bags! (yey!) My favorite was the girl JC Penney when i told her i didnt need a bag she looked at me like i told her i had the plague! i just took my stuff and put it in my tote. So christmas shopping went So/so. i was highly distracted by the fact that i really wanted some new fuzzy boots and had TWO coupons for DSW. So i got new fuzzy boots and a pair of Jessica Simpson shoes that i can not find online (color blue) , that i gave to dan to give to me as a christmas present! lol. After that i went to joannes fabric and have decided i am going to hone my artsy skills and MAKE one of those ball christmas trees... We shall see how this goes! When i came home i made onion rings from The hungry girl cook book. They came out pretty good. It was just Fiber one crushed up with some seasonings as a coating and u bake them for 25 mins. I fail at coating things in egg wash and then breading them.... Maybe some day i will get it! lol. We had these with some turkey burgers! So my sunday was great and i can not wait to get this short work week over with and get working on decorating the house for my favorite Holiday!! :)

Where Did November go??

As i sit here working ahead on stuff for the holiday i realize that i am actually working on stuff for DECEMBER!!! Where did this month go?? we havent DONE anything and its like flown by! I feel like my life has been flying by! Working with scheduling i feel like im always rushing days. Seems like everything just kinda crept up on me this yr. Next week is thanksgiving, its suddenly F-ing freezing out, and i havent bought a SINGLE christmas gift!!!! this is SO unlike me! I blame it on being such an adult and having adult responsibilities! being a grown up sux!

Health

I used to eat SO healthy. I would never eat out and always cook light. I used to never snack @ night. Lately i eat like 700 lb man! Nachos, beer, cake, chips, everything! i HATE that i have been eating so terrible, but it is SO delicious! I am addicted to nachos. And its easier AND cheaper to eat like crap! Saturday i decided before i eat myself out of my favorite skinny jeans i need to get a grip of my indulgent eating! While @ my favorite store target i picked up a healthy cookbook . I found a lot of pretty good healthier choice recipes. Now hopefully my loving husband will eat some of these!! Im not saying i want to GIVE UP eating junk. I just want to eat good food, healthier, every now and again. I'm Italian, eating fatty delicious foods is inevitable but i look forward to trying these new recipes!

Everybodys's working for the weekend!

This weekend is Dans birthday so last night we went to the bruins game! It was really fun and we absolutely killed the habs! There was a great fight and even some bickering on the T (hockey fans are awesome!) It was a great night and today i am exhausted!

Yesterday as i was leaving here i found out my office is FINALLY starting to recycle! We are SO wasteful here and it has always driven me nuts that we just trash TONS of paper a day! We dont even pretend like we are going to reuse things! I have always been a bit of a tree hugging planet lover! When i was a kid i used to get on my mom to recycle her plastics and was always turning off running water and shutting off lights as i leave a room. Now that i am an adult, we recycle everything in our house, we use energy efficient bulbs and i never turn on lights that are not needed. I drive a fuel efficient car and bring my own bags to grocery stores. So finally my 'carbon neutral job' is starting to actually recycle. (i wont get into the fact that we leave about 100 plasma Tvs on 24 hrs a day!)

Also yesterday when i got home i realized i needed gas. Imagine my surprise when i pulled into the station and it was 1.99!!! holy crap! i am so happy that i dont need to remortgage my house to fill up my focus!!

So yesterday i had a great day! i just need to make it thru the next few hrs of work and then its the weekend and dans bday!!

keeping secrets

I am NOT good @ keeping secrets from ppl! I have a big mouth, and i love to share things! For the past 3 weeks i have been keeping a secret from Dan and its been KILLING me! I got him Tix to the Bruins game for his bday as a surprise! Its his day off today and i took a half day and wanted to surprise him with everything. (his bday isnt till sunday, so it was unexpected.) I am SO happy that today has finally come and he has the tickets! i was about to explode not being able to tell him!!

A Healthy home is a Happy home

Or at least thats what the lady on the today show is saying. All these years my mother has been telling me all these crazy things that cause cancer and now it seems the rest of the world has jumped on her train. Its really scary when u think of all these things we have grown up with and now they are finding out they are bad for you. Plastics, PVC, teflon, etc. Just makes me really paranoid.

Every week the weekend goes by faster and faster. This weekend it went by exceptionally fast!!

Friday i got home and Dan had made dinner and cake!! YUM! =) i was surprised by the dinner, cake and wine! So we had a great dinner and hung out. Saturday we ran around and stuff and watched the happening. The movie was EH. i didnt really love the acting in it, but it wasnt a terrible movie.

Sunday dan had to work all day so i puttered around and went to window shop furniture... that was a bad idea! I didnt need anything and now i want all kinds of things! thanks Jordans for being so over priced!!!!

So now its back to work. Sometimes i wish i was an heir so i wouldnt have to work all the time :)

Election 08

First and foremost this was my first presidential election. i did not vote 4 years ago cuz i was @ school and just didnt have time to make it back down to raynham. I was not really concerned with it at the time cuz to me, it was not a huge deal. I'm not into politics at all, but this time it felt different. The issues really will have an impact on my life. I am so happy that Obama won. Its great to see someone young, eloquent and motivated in the white house!! Im excited to see if things actually do change. Its scary having half your household income coming in from a state job in these bad economic times. So heres to at least four years of change! :)

The ballot questions in MA also really concerned me. Question 1 would have eliminated the income tax, which would have cut programs and jobs. Thankfully this didnt pass. Question 2 was about marijuana. This unfortunately passed. so drug dealers, come on down to MA and distribute your contraband. Question 3 was to ban greyhound racing in MA. This is something that was very near and dear to my heart. My mom has worked @ the track for 24 years!! I grew up watching the dogs!! The whole issue was ridiculous to me. Dogs run. Its what they do. How Grey2k can say this is inhumane is absurd to me! Why dont they go after real issues?! Puppy mills, Mall pet stores, etc! The dogs in pet stores are in their cages for WEEKS if not MONTHS with no exercise! How they could think that owners of greyhounds would mistreat their dogs (who make them money) is ridiculous!!! What about horse racing? Horses get euthanized for having a broken ankle! When the dogs get hurt they are put up for an adoption into a good home. Working in advertising, it makes me so aggravated that that the No on 3 people didnt even TRY. They should have brought to light the lies of the grey2k fanaticals. They should have reminded people how much revenue and taxes the tracks bring in! I am so proud of my mom for taking a stand against these people. For attending countless rallies and trying to educate the people. My shy mother even appeared in a Tv commercial! (reading the comments, these people are morons, we are not 'trailer trash' my mother is a stay at home mom and put her family before her career, and this job was perfect for that). This morning my mom calls me in tears because a the opinions of a few crazy radicals shut down her job. In her 5o's she has no idea what she is going to do for a job. I feel so awful for her, the other workers and most of all the dogs. What is going to happen to all these dogs? Most of them will go to states with little regulation and they will be abused. I fear i may have to go adopt 5 new family members :(

Halloween

halloween was so much fun!!! The costumes were perfect. We really didnt get as many trick or treaters as we normally do, so we have a freeking ton of candy left.

Friday @ work was a very trying day. I dont know how much longer i can tolerate a certain someone and their super attitude!

Sunday dan bindi and i went for a hike. Corgi-vicious embarrassed us by try to eat a child!! (shes def my puppy!! lol) Other than that the weekend was great. it was nice and relaxing and i love to have those... especially when its dans weekend off! Now i just have to make it thru the next 5 days here!!