Merry (Late) Christmas and Happy (Early) New Year!

Merry Christmas to all my readers...though it be a bit late!
Happy New Year to all my readers....though it's not yet the date!
I hope that Santa brought you tons of great toys
Cuz I know you've all been such good girls and good boys!
Eat plenty of candy while you still have the chance
And please don't you worrry if you'll fit in your pants
For the time for resolutions is quickly drawing near
And you can start a new diet in this coming New Year!

hehehe...written by me....today...at work...LOL
I get a kick out of myself sometimes :)

back to civilization

So our power was (finally) restored in the early morning hours on Friday. So we were powerless for a little more than 7 complete days. Hopefully I never have to go through something like that again in my lifetime. Thanks to all those who offered their support, food, shelter, showers, laundry...lol all the necessities. And thanks to Jana and Ray who came through with a generator for us. We at least had heat Thursday night! Haha though it is funny - ray fixed our furnace and we got our heat going about 6 hours before the power came back on. But anyway, thank god that's over.

Day 7

No power. Day 7. Power companies aren't answering their phones. I am permanently frozen. Extremely depressed. I have no capacity to handle this whatsoever.
Some friends finally brought us a generator last night, but guess what? Our furnace won't run. So even if the power does somehow miraculously come back on (and it would have to be miraculous cuz I haven't seen a utility truck in all these 7 days...utilities must be LYING when they say there are 500 crews out there...that is a crock of shit) we still won't have heat.
I want to go to sleep and never wake up again.

129 hrs without power and counting

A word of advice to people:
When you ask if I have power yet, and I say "no", DON'T BE A DUMBASS and say "really?" or "are you kidding?"
Yes I am definately kidding about the fact that we're almost a week without power sleeping in 44 degrees every night. Like I would have lied to you that we have no power. Like it's a joke and I said "no" just to get a rise out of you. It's really fucking annoying.

Powerless and Ridiculous Waitress Story

We haven't had power since Thursday night (December 11). It is of course now Tuesday December 16th. It is supposed to start snowing today and tomorrow, with more snow Friday. Sub-freezing temperatures will return this afternoon/evening. I feel like I haven't really slept in forever. I want to take a hot bath in MY tub and lay down on MY couch with MY blankies and watch nothing on TV and be warm and be able to have food in my kitchen and be able to see when I go to the bathroom and to not have to worry all day long whether the stupid theives out there are breaking into our home during the day and I don't want to have to worry all night long about the temperature in our condo dropping down so low that our pipes will freeze.

Much thanks to my mom for having us over the weekend and to Shelley and Eddy for having us over last night, and for the offers from Chris and Roger to spend the night at their places. NO THANKS AT ALL to the people who offered to bring us a generator to help us get our heat back and then backed out on us two nights in a row. If you can't really help don't offer and get our hopes up. That is just cruel.

So we went to Margaritas last night for a hot meal and the service was atrocious. After waiting an obscenely long time waiting for our meals without ever being offered additional chips or drinks, our waitress comes over to our table. I of course was expecting an apology and explanation. So she comes over and says (I'm not kidding):
"What's the matter? Are you waiting for your dinner?"
No dumbass, we were waiting for Santy Clause to pull up in his slay with our Christmas Presents. Lovely. Just Lovely. Idiot.

PS - I'm writing this at work. I need a vacation far far away where there is NO WINTER and it is warm and cozy and people are competent and friendly and there are lights and power and.....well that or a long hybernation. I'm losing my mind. I think it might already be gone.

Our First Christmas Tree!

So we have our very first Christmas tree! Our buddy Roger came by Wednesday night with his truck and we picked it up, and then we decorated it last night! I am so excited to have a real Christmas Tree this year. I have never had one before and I looooovveee Christmas and I am so happy! yay! Here it is:

hehe now it just need some presents underneath it!

We picked up most of our decorations after christmas last year for 75% off. My mom gave me a few, like the my first christmas pink ball and my puppy on a sled. We also have a beautiful glass ball that we got from Greg's mom for Christmas last year. Here are a couple of our favorite decorations:

So wishing everyone a very merry Christmas! I hope your month is filled with joy and love and friends and family! (and candy and pies and christmas cookies!!!! hehehe)

Wedding Woes and Catching Up

So I haven't written a meaningful post in quite a while - my apologies. (Not that anyone actually reads this). There hasn't been much to say except that I am always bored and restless. I don't know how to fix that...but I always tend to get really restless this time of year because it's too cold to play outdoor summer sports, but there is no snow to do winter outdoor activities (ie - snowshoeing, sledding, etc.) So I've pretty much just been working, eating, playing WoW, and sleeping.

Which of course leads directly to the wedding. Everyone seems to be wondering how I can be bored when I have a wedding to plan. I will try to explain.

1) Planning: I am not much of a planner. I like to think of something, and then do it. I don't want to go on a vacation where every moment of my trip is slated on a to do list...that is just my personality. So motivating myself just to plan in and of itself is difficult for me.

2) Budget: Everything is so bleeping expensive that even looking at costs and budgets stresses me out. My sister says I should really budget 10 grand, and she is right, but hello! don't have that kind of money floating around.

3) Ceremony/reception: I want a nice simple elegant (not extravagent) wedding. But to have a nice elegant wedding takes us back to item #2. So that is discouraging.

4) Guest list....need I explain? Again, item #2 severely limits the guest list, which of course, will piss people off when they don't get the invite.

5) Honeymoon: Item #2, again. We can either afford to have a nice reception OR have a nice honeymoon. Cannot have both. I would rather have a honeymoon, all our guests would prefer a nice meal. Planning a honeymoon I would definately enjoy, but whats the point in looking at all these great honeymoon packages when you know you won't be able to afford any of them?

6) Details: Flowers? Cake? Location? Religon? Buffet or Plated? Catered or Restaurant? Colors of dresses? Music? Photographer? DJ? Attendants? oh my god the list keeps going. It is too overwhelming. I don't even like flowers - they make me sneeze.

So yeah those are just a few of the reasons that in all of my boredom I am not doing any wedding planning right now...hope that clears it up for everyone.

BUT DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME HERE!!!! I really do want to get married. I am madly in love with Greg and I am so excited to spend the rest of my life with him. It's just this whole planning thing that sucks.