First blog of the new year

So, January is almost over and I am just now posting my New Year's blog. The reason being that I have been sick pretty much continuously since the weekend before Christmas and haven't felt like getting on my computer. The most exciting thing I've done since the year started was be a bridesmaid in my friend Shari's wedding on the 5Th. It was a beautiful wedding and she was a beautiful bride. She wore the dress her grandmother was married in in 1947 and she looked just like a 40's Hollywood starlet. I love weddings and being in the wedding of one of my best friends is so special plus, having more married friends is pretty awesome! Speaking of weddings, lastnight I made a new reciepe and decided that it would be a nice occasion for us to drink the bottle of sparkling grapejuice leftover from our wedding, you know, before it started to ferment;) Both the food and juice turned out to be pretty good and we had a nice relaxing evening!

Our second Christmas

Christmas number two has come and gone for the Gaizat's and I must say this one was much less stressful than the last. It makes sense,though, I mean, last year was the first time we had to figure out the whole family circuit and we were sort of just flying by the seat of our pants but we had more of a plan this year so we could just enjoy the season and look foreward to the plans we had made. I hope everybody else had a great Christmas, too.

Recent Goings-on

We've been up to about a million things lately but I'll just recount a few! my little brother, McLean, turned 21 on the 21st. I think I was more excited about the fact that it was his golden birthday than he was; I gave him a set of sake' cups since he's really in to the Japanese culture. We actually got to see both our families for Thanksgiving. His family lives in town so we got to spend some time with them in the morning and then we headed down to Illinois and spent The rest of the day and Friday with them. We brought our Wii and so Chris became wildly popular with my four-year-old cousin. I helped my mom put the Christmas tree up on friday. That was fun, especially since we don't have on yet and probably won't until we get a house. I am excited though because I have come up with a solution to our no tree problem. My mom bought me this really pretty amber colored hurricane vase( it's actually more champeign colore but it's called"amber luster) and I bought some pretty ball ornaments to put inside. I also got some Christmas lights to put in the vase with the ornaments and once I have all that arranged I've got a sparkly silver star to set on top. My romantic Christmas fantasy is that Chris and I can come home from work and we will turn the lights off, plug in our "Christmas vase" and sit on the couch together, drinking hot chocolate and watching the beautiful lights. Hmm, I think I've already watched too many Christmas movies this season!

Maiden Voyage

This weekend was my friend's bridal shower and, as a bridesmaid, I just had to be there. Obviously such a weekend just screams of large doses of estrogen; hence the reason Chris did not want to come( and i totally don't blame him)! This ,of course, means I was on my own. Yep, I made the trek to my home town on my own for the first time ever! The trip there was completely without incident. The way back was nearly without incident except that I missed my exit coming in to Indianapolis and had to turn around and try to find my way back. Yeah, I was really freaking out because it was almost 1:00 am, my eyes were kind of blurry so I had trouble reading signs and I didn't really recognize the area. I was frantically calling Chris but he was asleep and didn't hear his phone. Thankfully, as I was trying to get Chris on the phone my mom beeped in and she was able to get a map and help me find my way. The weekend with family and friends was great and although the trip back was a bit traumatic I am sure that I will come to see it as a positive, confidence building experience!

weekend recap and weekday mishap

This past weekend was so much fun! Chris and i drove down to my parent's house Friday night and then Saturday morning my mom and I went on this bus trip to Chicago. Wow, we had so much fun together but we were so ready to go home like two hours before we were supposed to meet back at the buses. We walked all over the place from about 9:30 to 7:00. I'd say the highlight of the day was when we took a carriage ride down by the lake. We were so tired and there was absolutely nowhere to sit down so we said, what the heck, let's take a carriage ride! As we were riding we saw a wedding party just coming out of the reception and the bride came out in her lovely dress and my mom said,"you've been married longer than her!" Yeah, i was like, how weird is that! It really just blows my mind sometimes to think that I'm really not a kid anymore, that there are people out there who are more newly married than I, and that the number of people who are younger than i am is growing day by day. Weird.

OK, on to the mishap portion of this blog entry. We have almost nothing to eat in the house so yesterday I decided I would go to the store on my way home from work. Well, i went all through the store with my mentle list, picked out what we needed, got in line, loaded the stuff on the belt, pulled out the little case I keep money and stuff in and discovered that i did not have my debit card. D'oh! I felt like the queen of the village idiots; I just couldn't believe I had done that!

Face Painting

A woman in our church is starting a center/support group for survivors of domestic violence and she put on a rally today. Well, this is like the first weekend in like two months that we have been home so when she and her husband asked if we could help out we were like "oddly enough, we have nothing planned. Sure, we'll help!" Chris, being the technical genius that he is, was working on set-up and all that other stuff involving wires and the like. I was outside with the kids doing face painting, which was loads of fun! I have done it a couple times before but this time was the most fun because absolutely no one asked for Piccachu or any other Pokemon character!

A Variety of Things

Today was a special day. Nothing amazing happened, it was just different than most days. I don't have to be at work until 10 but our apartment complex was having the parking lots re-striped and wanted everyone to move their cars by 8. Well, since I wasn't sure where to move my car to I decided to just get up and go. I had a couple gift cards for Starbucks so I went and got some chai and sat outside and read my Bible for a while( that turned out to be not such a good idea because it was really cold and windy today)! It was funny because I was trying to decide what to get and the ladies were joking with me like, hurry up, lady, we got people lined up out the door! Haha, i was the only person in line and like the third customer in the whole place! after that I went to Target, which is becoming my favorite store, and found the perfect blue hoodie to wear to work that I have been searching for for a while. Like I said, nothing amazing but I feel like I got more out of my day. sometimes I feel like I have no time to do anything but work and come home for a couple hours and go to sleep. I got a chance to do majore cleaning last weekend and was amazed at how behind I had gotten in that area. Haha, and then I saw my eyebrows...AHH! Guess I've gotten behind in that area, too. Well, to end a great day, my honey took me out for chinese food, which I have been craving for a long time, and we went grocery shopping, so now we have food. Sweet!