The Results Of Our New Years Holiday

I apologize that it took me so long to make this post today, ya'll.  Celebrating the New Year just left us completely exhausted.  We slept in until about 11 a.m and finally got our Christmas decorations put away.

New Years Eve was a bunch of things.  It was fun, exciting, interesting, and different than any other in the past.

Naturally like I mentioned in previous posts about our plans for the holiday, Jason and I went over his parents friend's house for New Years Eve.  We had a lasagna dinner which was absolutely delicious.  Dinner was just the 6 of us; Jason, his parents, me, and his parents two friends.  It was a really great time!

I enjoyed 4-5 shots of 100.7 proof moonshine and polished off two whole bottles of Arbor Mist all by myself.  And guess what?  I handled my liquor really well this time!

I discovered that I have an obsession with Bugles and passion fruit Arbor Mist.

New Years Eve selfies are a must, obviously.  This was my transition point from feeling good into tipsy.  I was on cloud nine.

Oh, and I highly recommend the Caramel Apple Arbor Mist also!  That was very delicious and I hope that they come out with their dessert line again next year.  It's cheap stuff too. . .about $5 a bottle, but it does the job.

After dinner, my in-laws friends had friends of their own stop by which is always a trip.  Everyone has their own opinion of them, but they are a great time to me.  If anything, additional entertainment and I always welcome that no matter what form it comes in.

Jason on New Years Eve (My boyfriend)

Jason's Father, Ron (Enjoying a beer)

Jason's Mother, Karen (Isn't she just the prettiest?)

Me bringing in some peace for the New Year. (My hair got super long this year)

Gordon (One of my in-laws friends)

Alison (Gordon's Wife)

Gordon and Alison's friend (Kevin)

Kevin and Sandy (Gordon and Alison's friends)

So, this was pretty much the gist of our New Years Eve.  Just a bunch of sitting around the table and bullshitting about things that don't really matter.  We talked about topics that would offend the average person.

About an hour before the ball dropped, I called up my cousin Amanda and spoke with her about a few things and wished her a Happy New Year.

^ That's what we all looked like by the time the ball dropped ^

Lastly, the night ended quite interestingly with Kevin getting offended that there was a black guy with his shirt off on t.v when the ball dropped.  This all happened after my mother in-law insisted that everyone look at the t.v, primarily us females.  The last thirty minutes of the night, Kevin went on about how it should have been a white man on t.v because his ancestors founded America and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!  He was beyond drunk and that's why we mostly excused him.  Oh, it was entertainment though!  It was such a show that he ripped his shirt off to show people what a tough guy he was.  Buttons flew everywhere!  We didn't take what he was saying seriously due to the fact that he was extremely drunk.  Heck, we were all drunk to be honest.

Yep.  That was my New Years Eve.  Overall, it was pretty successful.  No fights.  No one getting sick.  Just a bunch of drunks acting stupid and saying things we have no knowledge about, especially Kevin.

Then New Years Day, we moved the rest of the heavy stuff over from Jason's parents house to our house.  We went over Jason's parents house to eat MORE lasagna.  Gordon and Alison came over for dinner as well.

Last but not least, on December 29th, 2014, my cousin Kayla gave birth to her beautiful daughter, Violet May O'brien who was 8.5 pounds, 21 inches long.

Ugh, I'm so in love with her.  Every time I look at her, I'm just at a loss for words.  She spent 4 days in the hospital because she had a c-section.  I Facetimed with her for the first time since she had Violet on the 29th last night and she was still in the hospital.  I think she actually went home today at some point.

What a great way to ring in the New Year.

How did your New Years Eve/Day go?  Feel free to leave it in the comments below!

I hope this year is good to everyone!

We Had A Wonderful Christmas This Year

I have to say that Christmas this year wasn't that bad.  Our Christmas's are never really that bad, but sometimes the past year was better than the last.  It actually turned out a lot better than I had anticipated.  Jason and I started our Christmas day off by putting the presents under the tree because good Lord only knows that if we put them under the tree any sooner than when we had intentions of opening them, the cats would have had themselves a field day.  As soon as I finished putting all the presents under the tree, they were already trying to get into them.  So, it wasn't that much later that we found ourselves opening presents.

Of course we started with our fur babies because as any pet owner should know, pets don't tend to have a very long attention span.  They can't speak of course, but I'd like to think that they had a pretty rad Christmas -- they got SPOILED to the hill!  Don't tell my mother-in-law, but I actually let them leave the house a mess for one whole day.  I didn't get many pictures of Christmas mostly because all the people we know hate having their picture taken.

Please excuse the hanger strap from my sweater.  I kind of just threw on my sweater so that we could hurry up and open presents.  I wasn't really worried about pleasing anyone at the time.

Simba is not allowed on our coffee table and Christmas is no exception to that rule.  So, Jason thought it would scare him if he fake shot him with his candy filled plastic looking candy canes.  Obviously he failed.

Seeing what is in my stocking if my favorite part of Christmas!

I thought the reindeer was cute, so I had to take a selfie with it.  On that note, I haven't really had much hot cocoa this winter.  Shame on me!

I wore these earrings all day on Christmas and got so many compliments on them.  I must admit, they really did look nice on me.

Isabelle is one of the most photogenic cats.

She didn't want to wait!

My house was quite a mess with all their cat toys all over the damn place, but they needed to enjoy their holiday as well.  I also bought them the as seen on t.v "The Perfect Arch".

They both love to rub up against things, so I knew that this would be the perfect gift for them!  It also helps them brush their fur where they can't reach.  It came with catnip as well to attract them to it even more.

Fast forward to about noon time.

We finally made it over Jason's parents house.  We originally intended to be over there about a whole hour earlier, but we were dragging ass.  I never really cared for planning out Christmas that much anyway, especially when people try to force an hourly itinerary on you.  You worked really hard to get Christmas ready, so why rush it and it all be over in a matter of minutes?

We all exchanged our presents and enjoyed a light lunch because we were going for dinner at their friends house around 4 p.m.

Fast forward to 4 p.m.

We arrived at Jason's parents friends house.  They had one of their son's over with his wife and kid.  I was a bit shy at first, at least the whole time we were stuffing our faces.  No one probably noticed that I was shy in the first place because we were all too worried about stuffing our faces and respectfully, I'm not one to chew with my mouth open.  So, I refrain from talking while I'm eating.

I later found out that I had a lot in common with their son's wife, Lori.  She is significantly older than me, has children, married, and probably has a house over an apartment which are things that we don't have in common.  However, we both have a love for purses and a significant other that complains on how we have too many, we both went to college, and while she has experienced a divorce (though she is remarried obviously), I'm a child of divorced parents.  So, she totally understood what I went through when we briefly talked about that topic.

Since my injury, I haven't really got out of the house much, so I don't currently have that many contacts to help me get extended resources on advice on how to better my life as far as being a college student goes and trying to find opportunities.  She is an accountant for a water company and she told me that she is only two levels down from the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) and that she works really close with the CFO of her company.  Being a CFO was my first aspiration when I could just barely call myself a college student.

I really enjoyed talking to her because she really did ease some of my fears of being a graduate and of course the fear of the unknown when it comes to trying to learn a new job and not knowing whether or not you're going to be good at it or if it's really even going to be for you as far as enjoying it goes.

We enjoyed a little bit of strawberry shortcake Arbor Mist which was absolutely delicious!

All in all, it was a great holiday.  

Now, I mostly get to enjoy having Jason home for another eight days with the exception of his forklift certification class on the 31st which is usually a full day (eight hours).  It's nice to spend quality time with him.  When I tell people that, they are always so quick to say, "You live with him for crying out loud!  You always spend time with him".  NO!  There is a BIG difference from spending time and then spending quality time with someone.

Usually Jason sleeps during the day and I sleep at night because I'm out of work still for my injury and he continues to work third shift which isn't going to change much when I find a first shift job anyway.  So, the only time we really speak during the week and on most weekends is when he wakes up to eat dinner before he goes to work.  Right now, I actually get to spend time with him where he sleeps at night the same time I do and we get to spend time together during the day where he isn't tired and we can go do things together.

There is a difference.

The only thing that I really have left to comment on is the fact that after looking at myself in the pictures above from Christmas, all I can say is that I gained a lot of weight in the past couple of years.  I really do have to work on losing weight in the upcoming year.  I'm tired of being tired and not feeling good all the time.  I shouldn't feel this way at 23 years old, especially if I ever have plans of becoming pregnant someday which is a soft subject right now in our house.