christmas tuneage and i hate the word tuneage.

Kaleena's list of most hated Christmas songs:

1. Santa Baby

2. Felize Navidad

3. Baby, It's Cold Outside. 

4. We Need a Little Christmas

Kaleena's list of most loved Christmas songs:

1. Silent Night

2. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

3. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

4. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

5. Last Christmas

merry christmas eve.

Have a Merry Christmas Eve and a Merry Christmas when it's tomorrow.

I plan to stay home tonight and watch Home Alone and Futurama.

Drink some Mountain Dew. Snack on some kettle corn.

Last Saturday, as a giant group, we went to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights.
It was okay.
Then we walked around City Creek to warm up a bit and because what else were we gonna do?

But Christmas lights on a bare tree is one my favorite things and one of the prettiest things to me.

It never gets old.

I wish Christmas lights were on trees all year round.

Alysha on the left and me on the right.
If one good thing came out of 2013, it's that I became really good friends with Alysha. I wish everyone could have a friend like her.

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blue christmas.

Just so you know,

it was a blue Christmas without you.

But Merry Christmas anyway!

what's going on in my life part 2

Update #1 - Yesterday was a big day. Not because I bought 80 pizza rolls from the frozen food section at Smiths... but because I finally signed up for health insurance on my own! Oh yeah. As of January 1, 2012, I will be fully covered. Health insurance is something everyone should have... but when you are a hypochondriac like myself and think you have every illness and symptom you hear, heath insurance is more than just a 'need'.

Update #2 - Today is Friday. Any other Friday I would be at work, but no, not today. This girl does not have to work until January 3rd!!! You probably think I have the holidays to thank for that, which I kind of do. But this week and a half break is the result of me having many, many, many vacation hours I didn't use throughout the year. So I am using them now.

Update #3 - We've been driving around the Avenues to see all the unique decorated houses in Christmas lights. We kept driving up and up and up clear past 13th Avenue. We turned a corner and saw this:

And believe it or not, I was only able to get HALF of the display in the picture. You can't really tell, but what they have on display is: multiple snowmen, multiple Santas, multiple nativity scenes, candles, palm trees, candy canes, penguins, carolers, etc. Basically if it's Christmas related and can be covered in lights, they have it. The owner came out and brought us candy canes, too.

fa la la la la! la la la la!

My cute, sweet, funny, thoughtful, adorable, any other nice word you can think of,  nephew Gavin had his very first preschool Christmas program.

It went as expected : and that means there were kids on stage, Christmas songs sang and parents armed with digital cameras and video recorders.

Halfway through, an America's Funniest Home Video moment happened... a kid on stage fell backwards out of his seat. I laughed first, made sure he didn't get a concussion and the continued to laugh.

Gavin's favorite candy is KitKats, so after he was done singing, I surprised him with a king size one. He loved it.

Fun fact: Sometimes in pictures, my eyes look like they are closed. Like the one above.

days like today.

Today was probably one of the most productive days I've had all month. 

After work I:

Crossed off most things off my Christmas shopping list.

Grocery shopped. - Went a little crazy in the string cheese section, 3/1.00. Talk about a deal of the season.

Cleaned the bathroom, my bedroom, the living room, and cleaned out the fridge and freezer.

Learned how to french braid my bangs. That's the way uh-huh uh-huh I like it! Uh-huh uh-huh.

Stubbed my toe.

All was done with a mud-facial mask on my face and my teeth whitening strips in; I am great with multi-tasking.

bits of my weekend.

It's baaaaaaaaaaack.

'Bits of My Weekend' is finally back!

I wasn't able to do this weekly post for a while since my lame laptop refused to let me upload photos and after smacking my laptop several times, (the international action to take if an electronic betrays you and you don't know what to to do to make it work) I decided to give up. Laptop is still being lame, but I made the decision to just use the camera on my phone and just email the photos.

So now, you can relive my weekend with meeee.

This is me in my favorite beanie and trying a fancy setting on my phone.

That is our Christmas tree. See how there aren't any presents under it? Yeah, I should probably start Christmas shopping.

This is a cracker I wrote "I <3 U" on in spray cheese and then I remembered I didn't have anyone to give it to. But then I remembered if Reader was with me, I could give it to Reader.

 The Christmas lights in my bedroom.

 Just some lights downtown.

 Pancakes for dinner!

 Cinnamon rolls.... just cinnamon rolls.

Not pictured from the weekend:  I went to my friends, Tiffany and Alana's, housewarming party and it was a blast, but in the most sad way, I did not take any photos. However, while I was there, I did hear the most epic snore. Let's just say, when I first heard it, I thought it was a chicken/rooster outside.

so this is christmas.

I am sitting at work drinking a Red Bull I got at the store (2 for 6 bucks, that's something you take advantage of no matter what it is) and I remembered I have a picture of my Christmas tree to show.

The tree that I haven't named yet was put up on Sunday night while the Simpons was on the TV in the background.

It only took one hour to turn the living room into a holiday-less living room into a... living room with a Christmas tree. Ha ha

I think it looks TREE-rific.

TREE-mendous.

I really love decorating trees. So if you need some help or just want a buddy while you decorate yours, I am your gal.

things i didn't know i wanted until i saw them.

A bunny kiss.

In case you missed the cuteness in the first picture, here it is again:

If "Santa" is reading this... I want a bunny for Christmas.

photo of the day #121

This is what mall Santas do during the off season. They camouflage themselves in various places.

her name would be pancake.

I don't know when or why it happened...
...but my angst for cats somehow turned into a veiled adoration.
I want this cat. 

I would name her Pancake.

She would sleep at the foot of my bed.
And she would get tangled in my Christmas lights during the holidays.

Look how silly this cats looks! I'm already in love with her.

photo of the day #103

That time naked cousin Ricky wake boarded naked and saved Christmas.

this is a cry for help.

For Christmas, I was gifted my worst enemy... a kitchen pots and pan set.
I will post pictures of the darling things later, even though we don't get along, I still like that they are red.

It's my new years resolution to be more domesticated and now that I have everything I need, I have no excuse to not learn to be a better cook... besides the excuse that COPS is on TV.

"I know.. I was GOING to make dinner but then the 90 lb sweaty dude with hair longer than mine and less teeth than a toddler with coke hidden in his deodorant started a high speed chase!"

So Reader, here is my cry for help. Well, cries, I have two cries.

Cry for help number 1: Does anybody have any dinners that are easy to make but still have some challenge?
Cry for help number 2: Does anybody have any tips on how to get me to FORCE myself to be a better cook and more domesticated?

Help!

photo of the day # 76

Christmas sucks when you come out of the bathroom and Hitler has stolen your seat.

our christmas card.

Here is the runner up......

See that white circle in the middle? That is a snowball that snowman is throwing at you.

the cons to making ramen at 4am.

I know Reader, I didn't think there were any cons to making Ramen at 4am either. But there is...

Last night after Steve and I finished watching Elf (what's a Christmasgram? I want one!), I got an outrageous craving for Ramen. It sounded so good. I was going to wait til the morning, Ramen for breakfast? Why not. But the longer I went without satisfying my craving, the more afraid I was of things getting dangerous in our living room. So off to the kitchen I darted.

Minutes later, I was balled up on the kitchen floor cradling my middle finger with a single solitary tear glistening on my cheek. Reader, I burned my middle finger on the stove burner. OUCH. Once Steve steve stopped judging me, he advised me to run it under cold water... which hurt so good.

Long story short, this is the most painful blog post I've ever typed because there is a blister on the middle finger and typing is different task with a blister involved. Despite the near death experience, it was a delicious bowl of Ramen indeed. Truly a Christmas Eve miracle.


Whoa... just glanced down to bottom left corner of my lap top... 12:14am which means....

CHRISTMAS.

Happy holidays!

photo of the day #75

Um...this picture seems like it's missing something. I think it might be her (is that a her?) pants.

and then i started blogging again.

In my absence, I lost two followers. Bless you, two little followers. I still wish you a happy holiday.

Honestly, it felt nice being away from my laptop... mostly Facebook, for as long as I was. The more I think about it, the more I want to light my Facebook account on fire.

Reader, guess where I was? drdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrddr (that's a drum roll) Las Vegas! I've never been before. It was.... excessive. Two and half days was all I needed to be there. I had a lot of favorite parts of the trip, like...

•  Our Star Trek themed hotel room at Planet Hollywood.
• Walking down the strip for the first time at 3AM. PEOPLE WATCHING!!!!
• The Michael Jackson dancer... however he wasn't really dancing.
• Finding my favorite color on a polka dotted scarf--for ten bucks.
• Eating.
• Eating. I know I just put eating, but I liked the food there so much, it deserved to be on here twice.
• The view from our hotel. 
• The giant piece of cheesecake that was almost the size of my foot, that me and Steve shared.

My most favorite part was when I ordered a forty dollar Crab Feast and Landry's Seafood House. It was a feast indeed. And worth the forty bucks. It was my Christmas present to myself.

My not favorite part was when we were stuck in traffic for 80+ hours... which converts to like 2 hours in reality. Gah.

Now, I play the waiting game with Christmas. I need to get in the Christmas spirit. Maybe I'll go drink some egg nog in a santa hat under a massive Christmas light display singing 12 days of Christmas or something... ANYTHING.

photo of the day #74

More like Scary Christmas.

photo of the day #73

It was an emotional day at the Steamtown Mall.

The babies are afraid of Santa.

Santa is recalling the first time he watched Homeward Bound when Shadow got stuck down in the mud hole.