it's official. i'm in love....

with a...wait for it...ORNAMENT ORGANIZER!!!



this set is a dream come true. i'm definitely going to have to order like 3 or 4 of these this year. i'm thinking 2 of each size, 36 and 48 ornaments. perfect for storing the many ornaments we already have!!! :) whoever said skymall is a waste is completely deranged.

i heart skymall.
and organization.

ps. i warned you that i have christmas fever. now you all get to read about it :) LUCKY YOU.

these are a few of my favorite things

my heart swoons every year when the holiday lane departments open up at target, macy's, pottery barn, etc. i love all the beautiful things that bring christmas into your home during the holidays. i must get this love from my mother, who always made sure to make our home festive and fun during the holiday season. now that i have my own place, it's my turn to throw the tinsel and i couldn't be more excited.





in case you fall in love too, all these items are either at target, macy's or pottery barn. i hope everyone joins in on the christmas extravaganza with me :) in turn, if you find things that make your heart flutter, let me know! ARE THERE ANY OTHER CHRISTMAS NUTS OUT THERE BESIDES ME!?!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

well, not really but i can dream right? since the second halloween passed, i have been living, eating and breathing christmas time. i love everything about it. i can't wait for thanksgiving--we are lucky enough to go to vegas to vegas kevin's parents for the holiday weekend. then, once thanksgiving has come and gone, it's christmas all the way! it's an unwritten rule in our house that christmas music is non-existant until the day after thanksgiving. i'll really try, but there are no promises this year. christmas is just itching to get out. :)

i'll post about halloween later tonight or tomorrow. there are some great pics, soon to come.

martha stewart does not live here.

so if you know me, you know i am not a suzy homemaker. not one bit, not at all. i take after my mother (no offense!) although i am crafty, all the other home-type "chores" are not my forte. i hate to clean. making organized systems is fun, but keeping them organized is another story. i can burn a bagel like nobody else. i have actually made mac-n-cheese taste horrible that not even the kids i was babysitting wanted to eat it. yes i'll admit, martha stewart does not live here. i rely heavily on my husband to cook. or else, we'd probably starve. or spend our life at mcdonalds. ugh. i have severe OCD and little things bug me. last night i broke a bowl. one of our beautiful bowls from cost plus world market. it was the first kitchenware that has broken. and i cried. it was just too beautiful...but even more than that, i couldn't get over the fact that i now only have 5 instead of 6. it bugs me that i no longer have a complete set. it's like my cupboard is calling out to me that one of the troopers is missing. i guess i'll have to buy a new one and get used to the fact that it's no longer one of the original six. yes, i have problems.

sometimes i feel like i'm a bad wife. but then i remember that kevin knew all these weird quirks about me before we got married (or atleast most of them) so he knew what he was getting into. it's his own fault because he's stuck with me, and all my craziness, now. tough noogies.

slowly but surely

this bug has really got me. although i am definitely feeling better, i am still exhausted. today i was lucky enough to re-enter into society. i went to work at noon and plan to stay until 5pm (we'll see!). the doc said to take it easy my first couple days back, because if i overdue it, i could end up getting pneumonia. yikes! ya know, a sick day here or there isn't too bad...but when you're quarantined into your room like a lepor so your husband doesn't get sick, life gets really boring. i couldn't have been happier to get back to work today. now, sitting here on my break, i can hardly keep my eyes open long enough to type this post. tomorrow will probably be a half-day too.

just an update on my progress. i am slowly but surely getting better. i miss my family and I MISS MY NIECE!!!

oh, and if any of you are looking to invest, campbell's chicken noodle soup and/or maruchan top ramen are both good options, i'm assuming. it's all i have been living on the past week. real healthy, i know. just a suggestion.

swine, swine go away

so it's confirmed. as of 9.30am this morning, doc says i have the swine flu. i figured i did considering i literally feel like i'm dying. honestly, i was thinking yesterday that if childbirth is worse than this, adoption here i come. i have been on the couch since monday and have strict orders to remain here until atleast next monday. thank god for vacation/personal business/sick leave at work. the worst part is that i'm bored to death at home all day all alone. i love monster, but she's not quite the conversationalist i'm looking for.

to tinsel or not to tinsel?

kevin's stocking is the moose. mine is the penguin. if only i knew when we'd have kids--i'd order two more without the customized names so the whole family set could match--yes, i have problems! i just think it'd be sweet to have the matching snowman and the black bear. i guess they don't have to match. i just have OCD..haha! anyway, we are still waiting. can't wait to open up our mailbox and find our two stockings waiting to be hung.

for some reason i really have christmas fever this year. i think it's because we have our own place. we have big visions for tree. we have to merge our ideas of christmas traditions into making our own. like, to use tinsel or not? or those bead ropes? or popcorn? i like the look and the idea, but monster will probably attack the tree to eat the popcorn. or what to put on top of our tree? an angel? a star? we can agree on ornaments and decorations (for the most part) so now it's just deciding what we like together. i'm big on tradition, so these decisions matter. i'm the kind of person that, once we pick an angel or star tree-topper, we'll use it forever. those are the little things that make up a home to me. like i said in an earlier post, we have been collecting ornaments for some time now so it will be so fun to put them on a tree. there's nothing like the first christmas :)