Our 9′ Christmas tree fell down…twice. Once last night and after we got it back up and put the ornaments that weren’t broken back on it, it fell down again at 3AM. I finally fall back asleep, only to be waken up by a certain fat beagle that wants to go for a walk and get fed at 6am. This is why I don’t have children.

Needless to say, I’m not in a good mood this morning, I’m pretty convinced that if this is how my morning started, the rest of the day is going to suck, and I can’t wait for all this Christmas bullshit to be over.

Tags: Christmas, holidays

It has been one of those mentally exhausting weeks where all I have wanted to do was go home and rest. I have managed to accomplish hardly anything this week. The house is a mess, I haven’t done any laundry, and I still haven’t bought any groceries for our new refrigerator; something that should have been done Monday. I’ve been very sloth-like this week. The idea of doing any of the above sounds like the worst possible thing in the world right now; especially the shopping. The idea of having to go to a Wal-Mart for groceries during Christmas season makes me cringe. I wish that easy button thing from the Staples commercials was real sometimes.

I got our Christmas tree Sunday and we finally finished decorating it last night. I don’t know the first thing about real Christmas trees because my family always had a fake one growing up. Dave refuses to have a fake tree and since he was busy all day Sunday, asked me to go get one. I picked the tallest, fattest tree they had because that’s really all I knew, but I guess I did well because Dave was happy with it and told me good job. There are pine needles everywhere. Our vacuum is going to hate this.

I was having a hard time getting a decent picture of it, but that’s my favorite ornament from the tree.

Other than the tree, the rest of the week has been pretty boring. I’m still keeping up with my yoga classes an my arms have been sore for 2 days from Wednesday’s class. The instructor really killed us this week! I’m going to a Christmas party tomorrow night where I have to dress in something other than my usual jeans and shirts and I have no idea what to wear. I might have to run to Forever 21 and pick something that looks Christmas-y.

Where did my motivation go?

Tags: Christmas, life, me

I can’t believe it’s already December. This entire year seemed to fly by. I haven’t really bought any Christmas presents, mainly because I still don’t have any idea what to get anyone. I hate this time of year.

I started taking yoga classes at the gym. Since I work farther away from home now, I haven’t been able to make a lot of the classes I would like to take because they all start around 7:00. Luckily, there are yoga classes at 7:45 Monday and Wednesday nights, so it fits perfectly into my schedule. I’ve never done yoga before and I will admit to struggling, but I want to continue because I feel so good afterwards-all stretched out. I have no flexibility or balance anymore and I know if I continue to do this it will help a lot. Maybe I’ll ask for some yoga gear for Christmas.

Saturday is Brenda’s memorial service. It’s going to be really rough seeing her family, especially her kids. I know there’s going to be so many people there. She was loved by many. And if she was here still, she’d tell everyone to stop crying over her and to smile because you never know who’s looking. So I’m going to try my hardest not to cry that day, and smile, even if it’s just for a second.

Tags: Christmas, family, fitness, life, yoga