Weekend in Review

Hey!  I'm alive.  Been in a funk.... But I'm trying to get back with the program (somewhat)!  

I have a few sponsorships/features going on and I don't want to get totally out of the habit of writing my blog, and reading everyone else!   I've been slacking at both.  Anyhow... thanks for sticking in there! :-)

Last week (the last 2 weeks actually...) we spent a lot of time taking care of our crazy stapled up dog.  He got the staples out Wednesday and we took him to "day care" at the vet all last week, since we didn't trust him not to scratch or lick at the staples/wound all day long!  He did pretty well. He likes to charm the ladies at the vet.  He's still pretty obsessive about licking at it when we take his t-shirt off.  

But... we left him home today, so hopefully he behaves himself!  

(On the way to the vet Friday morning... He likes to have his paw up on the center console thing while I am driving. Check out his cool turtle neck.  hehe)

Saturday morning we went and picked up our Christmas tree!   We ran a few other errands and did some stuff at home (cleaned up garage, installed a couple of shelves out there, took some crap to donate at thrift store, cleaned up our STILL GROWING LIKE CRAZY tomato plant).  Saturday night my BF went to a friends for a couple of hours to watch UFC and then we just watched some more TV and called it a night. 

December 8th.... dozens of tomatoes still. We pulled 2 this weekend.

Sunday we (mostly I) decorated the tree, did some grocery shopping, and made butternut squash soup (from THIS RECIPE). It was a homey, chilly, turn on the heat kind of evening.  :-)

 

 A few of my favorite ornaments...

From top left: Mickey ornament from DisneyWORLD, my beautiful swap ornament, our teddy/boxer ornament we've had for years and makes me laugh every year, and the pickle (also from DisneyWorld/Epcot, the German pavilion, it's got a story behind it). 

Other random decorations I threw on the table, nowhere else to put them!

This coming weekend I am heading to Oregon for my cousin's wedding.  I am planning to get a couple of posts in before I head up there.  

Hope everyone else had a nice weekend! 

Ornament Swap!

You may remember a few weeks back I mentioned I was participating in a couple of holiday swaps.  One of them was an ornament swap, and today is reveal day!!

 

Erin and Jessah hosted this swap and I had a lot of fun blog-stalking Elise (who I purchased for) and Crystal (who bought for me!).  Is it weird I stalked my gift giver?  Whatever, you can never have too many blogs to read! ;-)  

Both of my swap mates are sweet ladies and I was excited to shop for an ornament.

Elise recently bought her own home, so I sent her a couple of small holiday decorations for her new place, along with the ornament.  I hope she loves it all! :-)  

(Head over to her blog to see what I got for her!)

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Crystal did an excellent job shopping for me.  Is anyone surprised my ornament is green??  Hooray!  :-)  It's a gorgeous crackly green ball with twine around it, it reminds me of one of those glass balls fishermen use.  (Do those have a name?)   I really love the ornament and can't wait to get our tree up (hopefully tomorrow!!) so I can hang it. 

Oh hi, me.

 In addition to the ornament, she sent me a cute little Christmas tree soap, a candy cane, and a lovely card.   

Thank you so much, Crystal! 

 From reading her blog I know Crystal has been going through a lot of tough times trying to have a baby.  I just really appreciate her taking the time to participate in this swap with me.  I'm sure something like this could seem so unimportant and silly when you are dealing with fertility stuff, but I hope it gave her a little time to think about something else.  

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I'm heading over to link my post up and see all the ornaments everyone else got!  Thanks again to Erin and Jessah for hosting. This is a great way to kick of the season! 

FRIDAY - Phew, I made it...

 Dear This Week... You sucked. Work sucked. I felt crappy. The dog was hurt and then was a pain in the butt all week. My BF is grumpy.  

 

Dear Friday.... Seriously, so happy you are here.  It's been a rough week all around.  I'm very ready for the weekend.

Dear Blog Swaps... You were really the one bright spot of my week!  I got 2 swap packages and can't wait to blog about them. 
 
Dear Readers... Thanks for hanging in there! I promise to return to more regular (and less whiny) posting next week. 

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Fancies!  This cheered me up a bit. :-) 

Per Alison: Have you ever been shopping with a friend when they point out a top which is "totally you"? For Friday, November 30th, you'll have your chance to channel you into an outfit. Dress yourself = express yourself!!

I am big on layering and have a cardigan handy almost all of the time.  I just love the casual/comfy look of this outfit and it is totally something I would wear.

Caual Tea by katiejeanne featuring essie nail polish

I hope everyone has a great weekend 

and hopefully I'll be feeling more like myself next week. 

Sunday Confessions

I confess... 

I went to Goodwill yesterday for (more) frames for my map wall art project.  So far I have done 3 shopping trips...and nothing else.  Baby steps.

I confess... 

I just bought myself a Kindle Fire HD, right before Christmas.  I guess I'm impatient.  And I had an Amazon gift card.  I hope it gets here FAST FAST FAST. (As they like to tell taxi drivers on Amazing Race. Love that show.)

I confess... 

I've watched BRAVE twice this week, and we watched a bunch of the DVD "bonus" stuff Saturday night (party animals!).  I want Merida's hair.  The color, the curls, the bounce.  It's just gorgeous!  (Also, if I could genetically engineer a baby I would want her to look like little Merida at the beginning of the movie. I die.)

Source: google.com via Cynthia on Pinterest

I confess...

I'm pretty excited to be at 99 followers!!  Since I just finished my first giveaway, and I have a few others going on with the ladies I am sponsoring, I'm not going to do another one quite yet.  Maybe for the new year? Or my Blogiversary. Or for 150 followers?? (Whoa, don't get ahead of yourself, self. haha)  BUT... I do love you all and thank YOU for being one of those 99!!  :-)

I confess... 

I really think I might be addicted to Etsy.  These are (a few of the) things I already own.  (Don't get me started on how many things are on my "favorites" list.)  I have a necklace to match the airplane earrings.  And yes, I bought a couple few of the tile pendants after blogging about them last week.  I should probably not do that anymore.

 I confess...

I might have bought more than just an ornament for Erin's Holiday Ornament Swap.  I was getting some essentials (ya know, toilet paper, batteries, dish soap) today at some store (rhymes with StallDart. I prefer Tar-Jay but it's significantly farther away) and I was attracted to all the glitter and sparkle of the ornaments. Their ornaments are so inexpensive, I couldn't just buy one and be done.  So, yeah, there might be a few other Christmas goodies going into the package.  (Sorry, I'm not sorry, Elise!) 

Hooking up with the crazy (in a good way) Alyx on this fine Sunday.  

(She has 5 confessions, because it's a list, and she has to have 5 things on it. hehe)

Check her out!  

I hope your weekend wraps up nicely!

See you guy tomorrow for a wrap up of the weekend...

that I just realized I basically told you all about in this post.  

Huh.  

Well, we'll have something going on. Promise.

Adios amigos!