Shop Till You drop

I had a good time with Matt today.

We went to the big city where we did some of our Christmas shopping. I bought a few things for some people who I will not mention. I got a few good deals. I cannot post them though since some people read my blog. I can say - as usual, we went to four Target's.

:)

Matt took me to Fulin's for my birthday dinner!

I love that place!

We got milk shakes from Chick-Fila...

I think Matt wanted to go out and do something, but I think this was more fun.

Matt, we will go out and do something fun next time, I promise!

Oh, I bought the new Miley Cyrus CD from Wal-Mart - on sale today only (I think) for $5! I hope it is good!

Presents and Food! Mmmmm....

I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.

I know I did!

I was sad I did not get to go shopping on Black Friday since I was working, but thankfully, Matt went and bought the few items I wanted. This was my first year in YEARS not being able to go. Even when I worked at Belk, I always made sure to ask for an afternoon shift.

On Thanksgiving Day I was off work. Since I had to work on Friday my parents and brother came up to see me. I had made a nice veggie tray and some cookies. I was trying to be a good hostess since this is the first time they really came to my house for an event.

(Just so you know, a pre-made veggie tray from Kroger was $9.99. I bought a bottle of ranch dressing, a bag of organic carrots, celery, and a package of cherry tomatoes for about $6.50 which was more food and less money then the tray. Not bad! You should do this next time you want to buy one. It only took me about 10 minutes to wash everything and cut it all up.)

While they were over, we moved around some of my furniture and finished putting a few items where they belonged.

We went and ate dinner at Cracker Barrel. And I have to admit I was impressed. They did a nice Thanksgiving dinner. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, and cranberries – all topped with some gravy. You also got to choose a piece of pie. I had a piece of pumpkin.

My parents had to leave that night since Toby dog was home alone. My brother decided to stay the night with me since I had already planned to go to my mom’s for the weekend since this weekend is also my birthday and anniversary with Matt. He was just going to hang around the apartment while I was working. That evening after our parents left we rented the movie “The Taking of Pelham 123” which started off boring, but ended up being a good movie.

Sunday is my birthday so when my family came down on Thanksgiving Day to visit me they gave me my gifts.

Mom bought me this wonderful new TV.

My brother got me these cute items for my wall…. I will place them in my kitchen where I am sure they will look good.

Today my mom made our homemade Thanksgiving lunch. I wish I had taken a picture to post on here. She made turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans and mulled cider.

YUMMY!

I am still full and we ate a few hours ago.

Now I am just waiting on Matt to get here so we can go to the big city where we will spend some time together shopping.

For our anniversary, I bought him a hoodie jacket, a wireless mouse, Scrubs DVD season 8, and a sock monkey ornament. For my birthday and anniversary combined, Matt is buying me a Wii system. He would have had it already, but I did not make a decision on whether or not I wanted extra features. He is hoping there will be some good deals on cyber Monday. I will keep my fingers crossed. I would like to get an extra controller with my system.

Here is the card he got me....

This includes many things I like:

The color purple

Disney

Dogs

And here is the back....

This shows how well Matt knows me! :)

(He probably does not want me to share this, but oh well...

He knows I ALWAYS look to see how much the card was. I always tell him not to spend more then $1 on a card. At first glance,in the dark car, I was all happy with him since I thought he spent $0.86. Boy was I wrong!

He spent $2.86!

Redbox Thanks You With Free Rental Code

Enjoy a nice time with a good movie this evening!

Maybe you will get lucky and your Red Box Will have several movies to choose from.



Free Redbox Code for today only is: LLNS26

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

Eat Lots!

:)

Happy Anniversary Matt!

It has been a wonderful 4 years!

An Ozone Machine?

When I came home from work today I was a little disappointed to smell my home still smoky and see that my thermostat was still broken. Well, just a few minutes ago the maintenance guy came up and checked on the thermostat... looks like I will be getting a new one!

He then brought up the smoke smell. He said the owner was gonna come out Wednesday to check it out. He wanted to being an ozone machine on the same day, but he is going to wait until Saturday because me and Wyatt cannot be in the house for 9 hours while they do whatever they have to do. (I guess it is suppose to pull all the smoke smell out of the home?) Fine by me since I will not be here. I guess on Wednesday they will also be plugging the holes around the sinks. I truly hope this helps! I told him I would lock Wyatt in one of the bedrooms which means I need to go out and buy a baby gate tomorrow after work.

I made sure to be as nice as possible since it seems it is his wife who is stinking up my home. I asked him if he could smell it but he said no, he is used to it. I told him I hate to be a pain about the smoke smell, but I just cannot stand the smell.

I will keep you updated if anything changes - which I hope it will.

Big Day

My first day of work at my new job has come and gone.

It went well!
Thankfully!

It was a bit boring since it was mostly hearing the rules and doing computer tests.

I was very happy to find out a lady started the same day as me.
We even went to lunch together!

Sadly, I have to work on Friday... I kinda figured I would have to... I was just hoping I would be off so I could go home for the holidays.

AND - I will have to miss shopping on BLACK FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

This is my absolute favorite day to shop and I wont get to enjoy it!

At my old job I had requested off....

*sigh*

Glad I have a new job though!

Okay By Himself

This picture is a bit random but I thought it was cute!

So I decided to use it anyways.

Just wanted to let you know I left Wyatt home alone for almost 2 hours and I think he did okay.

Tomorrow will be the true test when I go to work.

I will leave the TV or radio on for him.

Hope he does not bark all day!

New Job Starts Tomorrow

(This was the only decent picture I could find...)
I start my new job tomorrow!

I am excited, but very nervous!

I am really hoping all goes well.

Starting a new job is always scary.

I would like to make a friend. Maybe someone will invite me to lunch... we will see. I guess it depends if I am even with my new co-workers... I might just be filling out paperwork all day. Who knows.



I will be doing the same type of job I was doing - except now I will have better pay and benefits!

I am hoping this means I will fit in easily and catch on to their policy and procedures quickly.

:)

I am going to see if I can get my work car pass today instead of waiting until tomorrow. The less I have to worry about tomorrow morning, the better. I would like to bring Wyatt, but I need to test him and see if he will be okay home alone. Hopefully, he will not bark the whole time I am gone.

I plan on picking out my clothes tonight and taking a shower and straightening my hair so I will not have to do it in the morning.



At least this week will be a short week since Thursday is Thanksgiving. I am hoping I will be able to be off Friday too. I am a bit doubtful though since the old office I worked at is opened which probably means this office will be open. Guess I will have to wait and see.



Wish me luck!

Christmas Ball Wreath

Look what I made?

I LOVE it!

Mom and I saw THIS blog where she wrote about this Christmas wreath she made.

You KNOW I like making wreaths... remember my EASTER WREATH?

Here are the items I bought to use for my wreath.

You just need Christmas balls, 1 wire hanger, and a hot glue gun.

You can use any colors and shapes you want. I love the candy theme for my Christmas decorations so the first balls I picked out were the stripped ones. I bought the stripped ones at Hobby Lobby for $7.99 each - on sale for 50% off which made them both $7.99 total. The green and red ones came from Wal-Mart for $5 each. The large square of red ornaments are the leftover ones my mom had from last year. I bought shatter proof ornaments which I recommend you buy too.

Before I left my mom's house today we played with this a bit.

We read online you should hot glue tops to the ornaments. After testing the balls on the wire hanger without being glued, we decided we would do this to all the balls. I highly recommend doing this. For some of the balls mom glued around the tops. On the others, we pulled out the top and then glued it back.

(Thank you mom for hot gluing them all on!)

Once I got home I took my mom's advice and separated all my balls on the floor by color and size.

(These are all the ones I started with and I still had some left over.)

I started with about 100 balls.

I was going to keep it on this wreath holder....not sure if it looks good on it though.

Also note my wire hanger turned into a circular shape.

One more picture of my mom fooling around with it before I left.

(I would of had more pictures in better order, but this darn blog would not allow me... not sure what is wrong with it.)

Here is a picture of me working on it.

Mom and I learned to not have it lay on the table.

You need to hold it up as you put the ornaments on it.

I learned to twist the balls around even more.

Do know that you do not really need to go in order (i.e. red then green then white....repeat). It will not look like that on your wreath. I tried having an order at first but it was not looking as good as I wanted it to.

The finished product... minus the bow.

It is too big for this wreath holder.

This wreath would look fuller if I made it smaller, but I like it like this.

Do you think I should cut pieces on garland to put in between some of my balls?

This was fun to make, but a little more time consuming then I had expected.

Mom, if you want one, I will help you make one.

Just so you know, to get the ends of the wire together at the end I taped it with regular tape and knotted several pieces of ribbon. I am not 100% sure it will stay together. Next time I see my parents we are going to try to clamp it some how.

**UPDATE**

Do not attach the 2 ends the way I did.... after 2 days it has came apart. I need some way to clamp the 2 ends together. I will think of something and let you know.

Have any ideas? I would appreciate them!