Happy (early) Christmas!!

It's definitely been a few moons since I've last showed my face on here. My whole "let's blog more" can-do attitude crashed and burned horribly. Oh well. I've been busy. What can I say. It's harder to blog when you're working 40+ hours a week in a high stress & physically challenging environment. My weekends are now dedicated to sleeping in (heaven) and catching up on much needed tv time (horrible habit). So instead of using my weekends wisely and doing something productive, I'm usually found sprawled out on the couch inhaling the dramas of the Kardashian sisters. Shameful, I know. But anyway, enough of my nonexistent life. So as my post title so beautifully exclaimed, happy early Christmas to me!!!

Usually I'm pretty clueless about what I want. I think the only thing I sort of asked for was a Kindle. Which is dumb because I already have a Nook, but hey, when you're scrapping at the bottom of the barrel for ANY KIND of a gift idea then that's what you come up with. I didn't expect much. We put a $100 budget on gifts this year so you can't really expect too much from that. HOWEVER, the other night, the hubby came out with this gem:



I was blown away. I've never had a present this size before. So you can only imagine how excited I was. Christmas day was coming up. Crazy thing though, the hubby INSISTED that I open my gift early. Something about "if I didn't like it we could return it so it's better to open it now rather than to wait" kind of thing. He actually had to do a lot of coaxing to get me to open the gift. I have a lot of self-control when it comes to presents. My goodie-two-shoe attitude makes Santa proud every year. BUT, I caved. His constant nagging & insistence for a whole friggin' day finally got to me. SO....


:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Best present EVER!! My old Mac is more than a few years old. I couldn't even update my iPhone software because the computer was so old that I couldn't update my iTunes to update the iPhone (talk about your all time biggest headaches). But now, I sit here in front of this giant, and I do mean GIANT screen happily typing away and enjoying the perks of being all up-to-date with my computer.

Thanks for welcoming me into the new era, Mac. The grass is greener on this side of the fence, fo sho.

Deciphering dreams

I woke up this morning in an uneasy place. My first recognizable thought was of the dream that I had just experienced before the music from my alarm clock jerked my mind awake. Strange dream, strange enough to have a struck a chord with me. I laid in bed, the darkness completely engulfing my view, savoring the emotions that washed over me as I recounted the images from my dream. I wanted to remember the dream, how I felt, how much it impacted me. Even now, sitting here almost 12 hours after the dream, that feeling is slipping away. At the time I knew it would happen, I just hoped that I could prolong the inevitable. Now instead, I'm in a fog. I don't know which way is right or left, up or down. I'm split between my logical self and my subconscious self about what the dream meant. It's funny, I'm sitting here trying to decode what my subconscious meant when I should be listening to my emotions. Rubbish. I'm a busy woman, I don't have time to give to myself, let alone to figure out what I want or need. All I feel day in and day out is fatigue. Adele's "Someone Like You" is blasting at me from my Mac's speakers, yet I feel nothing. I'm imagining myself 5 years ago and I know that the person I was then would have felt so much pain & sadness from this song. I would have felt something. It's funny, all it took was a dream to shake me from my core and bring me back to the reality that I have somehow lost my way along the path of adulthood.

A big slap in the face from my inner self to jolt me awake from the drowsy livelihood that I have lived 24/7 for the past few months. It stung, but I hear ya, loud and clear.

Thanks.

Family & love

iPhone snapshots of moments in my life with my loves.

I think I might want to make this a regular post. The further I find myself going into "adulthood", the harder it seems for me to pick up my camera. I used to be so into photography, it was my being, my calling. My life. But now, sitting here, after 8 hours of working on my feet and 2 more hours of farting around on the internet, I feel like I've lost myself in regards to photography. My grown-up life has taken the childhood out of me completely. Sometimes I wonder what happened. Then I panic and wonder WHEN it happened. Regardless, I will try (I know I've said it before and had meant it for a whole 20 minutes) to take more pictures. It may not be awesome SLR type pictures but baby steps people, baby steps!

Check-in

So yes, I've been slacking. I've neglected my little blog & cast it aside. I'll admit to it, and admitting is the first step. The second step would be to actually blog... let's check that off the list NOW.

I don't have much to report on at the moment even though there's been a lot of stuff that's been going on, but right now, after a long day of work, I don't think I can think of anything to blog about. So instead here are a couple of pictures of my new flowers that have invaded the sun room. Grant it that they're fake but that's besides the point. The point is, they look awesome & I love having them in the room. From someone who loves flowers but can't stand that they die, these two guys make a great addition to the room. Thanks in part to Ikea... but mostly to me for buying it and displaying it so beautifully in my house :)

Fabulous

Wildlife adventuring in the city

Last week, I had a chance to go on a photo meet-up with other enthusiasts from Katy (suburb of Houston). I've never done meet ups before so this was a first. I've never really been into those kinds of things. Truth is, I'm a social moron. I feel too much pressure to talk to people & entertain them. I know, pathetic. But my flaws isn't what this post is supposed to be about. Back on topic again, so I went to this meet-up not knowing what to expect. I was just excited to get out of the house and do something different for once. The meet-up took place at a wildlife park called TGR Exotics. The little outdoor cabin-ish type building was where we first started. This is where I meet the unofficial official welcome wagon, a cat named "The Enforcer". I couldn't get enough of the little guy. He was a natural born model and I made sure he got his 15 minutes! From there, we did a 45 minute tour throughout the park and saw lots of cute little fuzzies, from anteaters to kangaroos, it was a delight to my animal lover self :)

It was super fun and I'm glad I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried something different. I must admit that it was nice to be around other people who share the same passion as me. All the "nerd speak" was nice ;)

No work Monday!

Today didn't turn out the way my typical Mondays are. Usually I'm awake at 6 o'clock, cursing the alarm clock for interrupting my wonderful, wonderful sleep. Then I'm off to work for 8 hours, slaving away for "the man", cursing my inability to win the lottery and not being lucky enough to be a "trust fund kid". Lovely isn't it?

Fortunately, today I got a call from work... they would not be needing me today. *YIPEEE* Cue the pomp and circumstance, ladies and gentlemen, I am a free woman. And what does a free woman do on a Monday? Why she aimlessly walks around Wal-Mart and Bed, Bath, & Beyond with no intention of buying anything... pathetic, yes. But in hindsight, it kept me from holing myself up in front of the tv and computer, so it was a win-win situation.

Plus, it's always that much nicer knowing that I'm not working today while the rest of the world is. Now that's some sweet sugar.