Back in the groove!

I downloaded three books onto my Kindle the other day that I hope to be able to read by the end of the weekend. I NEED to read something for myself, it is SO relaxing for me and at this point in the semester, it is exactly what I need. Exactly what I need. I have one book down and am about a quarter of the way through the second book already and can’t wait to lay down in bed tonight cuddled up with the quilt and read for another few hours. It is just SO relaxing!

Ayden and I had quite the relaxing lazy weekend last weekend. I’ve been having a lot of those lately, getting ready for the busyness of the holidays coming up. I can say that, right?! Darn tooting, hehe! I don’t mind some lazy weekends, what I am getting sick of is, not being able to spend my weekends with Jay. He does get home most nights by 4:30-5pm so we have the night to spend together, but I don’t get home until 7pm on Mondays, and these past couple of weeks I’ve been busy with studying and school stuff so it feels like we are more cohabitating than spending time together. I’m sure some of you can relate at some point in your lives. Its not like we are not getting alone or anything because we are, its just that we’re busy with other stuff.

And he’s literally been gone the last six weekends. That’s not to say that we haven’t spent anytime together in the last six weekends because three of those things had been for family events, but its six weekends that we haven’t been able to just be at home as a family to spend time together. This weekend was Thanksgiving, and the following weekend I am going to Milwaukee to help with Special Olympics so that is two more weekends we won’t get to spend together. I would like the holidays to be done and over with already, not because I don’t like them, but because I am not ready for the running around we have to do. We have EIGHT Christmases to attend this year… EIGHT! That is A LOT! And then I found out that I’m not getting my favorite soup this year. UGH, what a wait to ruin someone’s Christmas. Okay, so not ruin it, but disappoint me.

My mom’s husband makes this oh so yummy chicken cordon bleu soup that he learned while he worked at a restaurant a while back. This soup is to die for, well at least I think so. I crave it each Christmas. He has been making it for the last three or four years and he knows that I ‘expect’ it each year. So, this year I emailed him a few days ago to get my ‘order’ in for it and he lets me know that he doesn’t want to make it this year and he wants to try something new and less expensive. (Side note- well if you’d get off your you know what and get a job you wouldn’t have to worry so much about what you buy for groceries instead of making my mom make all of the money). And something less time consuming. Okay, so I know that maybe making the same thing year after year might get a little boring and I guess it does take a little time to make this. But then when I asked for a recipe last year, he told me that he promised the guy that he learned it from that he wouldn’t give the recipe away. Bogus if you ask me! I want some of this soup and I want some NOW! Hehe! Craving it much, you bet! I’m more than a little disappointed. But if you’ve ever had this soup you’d understand, I could eat bowl after bowl of it (and do)!

My friend, Kristi, and I had a girls night out the other night. We picked an absolute great night to go out because it was the first snow of the season and the roads were absolutely horrible and we thought that we were going to die on them, haha! It was pretty bad weather wise, but her family had left to go ‘home’ and she was stuck at her house because she was going to have to work on Thanksgiving (and then she go told on Thursday that she didn’t have to work). We went out to Buffalo Wild Wings for supper. I had never been there before and although the interior of the restaurant is pretty cool with mega TVs like ever two feet, I wasn’t too impressed with the food. But then again, its not really my taste either. We were going to go to a movie afterwards, but since we had like two hours before it was going to start, we browsed Target for a little while and walked off our supper.

I ended up with a new coat and some cute boots and some makeup. The coat was 50% off. It is a corduroy not quite winter coat that is sort of dressy, the boots are flat and winter like and cute, and the makeup is the kind of makeup that I’ve been waiting for Target to carry. Target does carry it, but our Target hasn’t carried it until now. It is called e.l.f. for eyes, lips, and face and is VERY cheap. I got some eye shadow and lip gloss and liquid eye liner. I tried the liquid eyeliner and am not too sure about it just yet, but it was only $1 so I’m not too worried either.

Jay called me at work the other day and let me know that he has an interview for a possible new job on Monday. I was totally excited and surprised to hear that. I’m praying that this might be the advancement that he is looking for because it could be very good for our family, but I am not going to get my hopes up just yet because I don’t want to jinx it. Keeping my fingers crossed though! 

We had a pretty good Thanksgiving. We had three different places to go to… keeping us pretty busy. Definitely ready to sit down and relax by the end of the night. Our first place was just down the road a little ways (well a town or two over) and it was definitely nice to not have to leave super early to get there and to be the closest ones. That NEVER happens! And then we were in the car for two hours on our way to the next gathering at which we spent a whole almost two hours before we headed to the last one. Ayden was SO tired by the end of the night, although he said that he wasn’t. I could see that he had hit his breaking point and there was no turning back so we headed out of there and were on the fast track to dreamland.

It was nice to sit and chat up my cousins last night, but then again it always is since we don’t get to see each other all that often. I was becoming slightly annoyed with my grandpa and mom, but for altogether different reasons. I was snooping and listening to a conversation that my grandpa was having with my aunt about the recent anniversary part him and my grandma had had. He had mentioned something about either a different wedding or anniversary party that him and grandma had attended (mind you I didn’t hear how long ago they had attended said party) and how he was complaining that they never got a thank you card from the guests of honor. I wanted to turn to him and say that if the only thing he cares about is whether or not he gets a thank you card is pretty selfish. Yes, thank you cards are nice, but I never expect one. But that’s my grandpa for you I guess. And then my mom was annoying me. I don’t know if it was my already kind of tired mood, but she was just SO loud last night. If I didn’t know that she doesn’t drink, I would have asked her if she was drunk. Oh well, I just stopped paying attention to her and had a yummy chocolate brownie.

I didn’t do any super early Black Friday shopping… didn’t have anything that I really needed to get. Ayden and spent the day at Jay’s parent’s house just chilling out eating delish leftover Thanksgiving food. I needed to stop at my dad’s house to pick up my phone that I had left at my aunt’s house. And then Jay’s mom, myself, and Ayden hit up a few stores because we had nothing better to do. I was able to find Alexis’s Christmas present which was good, but it didn’t take too long before Ayden started getting crabby and then we headed home. Neither Jay’s mom, nor I really needed to get anything, but it was too cold outside to do anything today so we thought why not hit up few stores for the heck of it.

Ayden and I were supposed to go to Bay Shore park and a waterfall with my friend and her boyfriend today, but with it being so cold and windy out we didn’t go. I wouldn’t have minded if it was like 30 degrees and sunny and not windy, but it was like 20 degrees with wind chill today and I didn’t pack any snow pants or boots for Ayden or gloves warmer than thin mittens for Ayden and didn’t think we would enjoy it if we couldn’t feel our fingers. My friend and her boyfriend still went and had a good time… but Ayden and I will have to wait until it is warmer out before we join them again.

It’s cookie making time at my mom’s house this weekend with my sister. I’m hoping that I can sit and watch and eat the cookie dough versus actually having to help, haha! And then maybe I can work on my presentation draft that is due on Monday. Don’t really want to though. I did start it a little bit which is good.

Update: since I didn’t get to post this yesterday like I thought I was going to, I thought that I would just add to it and post it today. We ended up making lots and lots of cookies at my mom’s house yesterday. My sister, mom, and Ayden did most of the work while I watched, haha! Just what I like best. I did mix the monster cookies with my hands though, so that was a good contribution, wasn’t it? Yeah, I thought so. But seriously, we started the cookies at like 11am and didn’t finish cooking them until after 3pm… 4 hours of taking cookies in and out of the oven is a long time. Good thing my mom was taking care of most of that. I was pretty unproductive all day.

I did manage to get some of my presentation done, although now I have to go through and figure out what and how I am going to say it and after going through more and more of my articles, I think I need to find a few new ones. I have four good ones which might be okay, but the professor had said something about having at least 6-7 articles for the presentation. Oh well… might just have to do that today.

REALLY not looking forward going back to class tomorrow, I could use another week or so of vacation, but I suppose that that will be coming up soon enough after the semester is over. Definitely not looking forward to getting through the end of the semester though because that means a lot of work. UGH! 15 more days of the actual semester left (three weeks), but that actually means only six more days of actual classes. Only THREE more dreadful Mondays… YEAH! And only three more clinic rotations on campus. It should be two; however unfortunately I am the one who has ended up with the last week of rotating clinic. Yippie me! But I can deal because it is with the supervisor that I like!

I’m not really in the Christmas spirit yet and although there are a few weeks until Christmas yet, I’m really just not looking forward to it at this point in time. I don’t want to get a tree, I don’t want to decorate, I don’t want to wrap presents, I don’t want to shop… I’m a grinch right now, mostly because I know that I’ll end up doing most, if not all, of it by myself. I’m a new age hippie girl (or not, haha), but I totally believe in equality in ALL things… so that means, if it gets done, both Jay and I are going to do it. I won’t get a tree if he won’t help decorate it. I won’t put up decorations if he won’t help. I won’t wrap presents if he won’t help, and I won’t buy anything if he won’t help. I don’t think that just because I am the woman that I should have to do all of it by myself, it is totally unfair and I am ALL about 50/50 in our relationship. He does the dishes, I do the laundry. I clean the majority of the house and he does the majority of the outside stuff. We do everything with Ayden 50/50, although lately I’ve become bitchy about it because he’s been hunting every weekend.

And even when he does take Ayden with him for the weekend to his parent’s house while he hunting and I stay home, Jay still isn’t taking on the responsibility and his mom and doing the majority of the work. It pisses me off. And then this weekend and last weekend… he was gone ALL weekend last weekend, left before Ayden got home from school on Friday and didn’t get home until after Ayden was in bed on Sunday night. And this weekend… he spent all of Thanksgiving day either in front of the TV or visiting with family (although for the majority of that day I did as well, while Ayden played with cousins), and then he hunted ALL day Friday and ALL day Saturday while I watched Ayden. I’m sorry, but I don’t think that that is fair and I am resenting him for it right now. Not to mention that we haven’t had any time together for how many of the last million weekends.

CIAO! LOVE ME!