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Slow down Christmas!!
Today and yesterday have been so hectic it’s not even funny. I am fully stressed and worried I won’t get everything done in time for our dinner tomorrow and not to mention get all the presents wrapped. I still have to wrap Rans’ presents for Pete’s sake!!
Yesterday morning we left around 10:30 AM and ran to Wal-Mart to pick up some last minute gifts, wrapping supplies, and also got some pictures printed off. I got the pictures of me and Rans from our trip to Atlanta when we went to the hockey game with my sister and Mary. They turned out pretty good. After Wal-Mart we had to rush home, unload my car, and then head to get everyone’s haircut. Of course me and my mom got our color redone. Yes, my hair gets dyed a slightly lighter shade than what it usually is. Basically it’s got some copper tones and it brings out my natural highlights a lot better. I love it. My younger sisters and brothers both got their haircuts as well. So all in all at least everyone’s hair will be looking good for Christmas. Lol. After haircuts, we stopped by Sonic, picked up some dinner, and then headed to Fashion Bug because I was in search of a new bra since my favorite one got ate by the washer. I also got some cute socks to go with my Sperry’s. After Fashion Bug, we had to run out to the mall so I could get Rans’ present. It was pretty expensive but so worth it. Then after the mall we stopped by the Honeybaked Ham store to pick up a ham and turkey breast. I love their ham, it’s so good. After that we finally headed home and ate dinner. We didn’t get home until 7 PM and we had to wait on Beth to get home so we could leave again. My step-dad ended up calling before we left so Beth picked him up and we finally headed back to Wal-Mart around 11 PM. We did not get home, get everything unpacked, and ready for bed until 3 AM. I was so tired.
This morning I thought I was going to die. Every muscle and bone in my body hurt like crazy. I think my body was definitely telling me I over did it. I didn’t mean to but things had to get done. Today I’ve spent the whole day cooking and cleaning up the house while washing loads of laundry. We have to be at my aunt’s by 5:30 PM and then we’re headed to church for the Christmas service. At least we are supposed to. A little while ago we got a call telling us that my step-dad’s Uncle Edward died. That is really sad to lose a loved one, especially during the holidays ya know. My step-dad is really tore up. I don’t even think he’s going to go to my aunt’s with us. I don’t blame him for wanting to have some time to himself. I’d be the same way. After my aunt’s house and church we have a crap load of wrapping to do. I still have not wrapped Rans’ presents or any other gifts I got everyone. Ugh, I hate being so behind and unorganized. I am not the neatest person but I freak out when I have a long to-do list and feel like everything is unorganized.
Tomorrow morning after everyone opens presents we plan on eating cinnamon and orange rolls while getting the house ready for our dinner. Between breakfast and lunch/dinner I need to run to my dad’s and exchange gifts there. After my dad’s me and Rans are supposed to come back here, eat, and then leave for his house. I’m not sure what we’re going to do at his house. I think we might exchange gifts. I don’t care, I’m just happy to spend our first Christmas together!
I find myself having a strong urge to just be around my family right now. With all that’s going on with my dad and the drama my brother is going through, I just want to be with everyone and feel all safe for once. I just am scared what 2009 holds for my family. I hate thinking about the what-if’s. I’m just going to put my faith in God and trust him to take care of my family and me. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!! Merry Christmas everyone!! So until next time, later gators.
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Christmas Spirit
Wow, for the life of me I cannot fully comprehend that tomorrow is in fact Christmas Eve. Where has this year gone? I’ve gone through so much this year and it feels like yesterday I was just leaving for summer vacation. Has the year flown by for everyone else?
If you haven’t noticed, I have a new theme. I really like the simplicity of it but yet it’s very chic at the same time. It totally fits my personality. Tawni at Forever Design Studio is amazing. I really didn’t feel like making my own theme with so much going on so I commissioned one from her and I was definitely not disappointed with the outcome or the price either. I highly recommend her.
I have a load of last minute Christmas items to pick up. I feel completely overwhelmed. I think the visit from Mary totally messed up my schedule but it was well worth it!! I think I just forgot it was so close to Christmas and plus neither one of us felt that great when she was down here thanks to the weather. Speaking of weather, it’s supposed to be in the 40′s today but Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are supposed to be in the upper 50′s, lower 60′s. That is so not going to feel like Christmas at all.
I figured I’d try to blog since my mom woke me up so early to try to get myself in the Christmas Spirit. I have been lately but not so much right now since my mind is half asleep still. I haven’t been sleeping well. In fact, only time I do sleep well is when Rans is here. I keep having these messed up dreams that make me not want to sleep and when I do get some sleep I wake up and my whole body hurts. I don’t know what is going on but it needs to chill so I can take the COMPASS test January 7th. With little to no sleep I know I won’t be doing that well so come on sleep, straighten up.
I need to run and get dressed. We’re trying to get to Wal-Mart a little earlier since most people around here will be sleeping in thanks to the horrible weather. It’s in the 20′s right now and the wind feels like little blades of ice. I hate it. So until next time, later gators! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!
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I feel so .. violated!
I have seriously had the worst day ever. I’m having horrible cramps and I felt sick to my stomach all day but I didn’t let that bring me down. No, I got up and dressed and was headed to Cartersville to Target to get some shopping done. I was going with my sister Beth since she needed to do some shopping as well. Needless to say, the Target trip was a bust. I didn’t find anything of interest except some Fiji water. Heh, I love that stuff.
Upon checking out, I looked down and noticed my cell phone was missing. Beth called my phone and it went straight to voice mail. I knew that was funny because I had just charged my phone earlier. So since it wasn’t working, Beth went back and looked around the store to where I was trying on shoes since that’s where we last remembered me having it for sure. It wasn’t there so we both split up and looked down every aisle we had been on. We also got this woman to page her “team workers” and ask them to look for it as well. Also, the rent-a-cop scanned the store as well. My cell phone was nowhere to be found and obviously someone took it and planned on keeping it since they turned it off. At least they weren’t using it I suppose. It just sucks because I had pictures on there from vacation and personal text messages that were sentimental between Rans and I. That really unnerves me. You have no idea.
After searching for my cell phone with no luck, I headed to the Verizon store nearby to find out what I could do about it. They suspended my phone and I had to call our insurance. Thank God for insurance because I only had to pay a $50 deductible instead of $410 to get a brand new Voyager! After talking to the insurance dude I discovered they don’t make my type of Voyager anymore and he wanted to make sure that the new Titanium Voyager would be an acceptable replacement. Why thank you sir, I do love silver. So I get my new phone on Tuesday. I am upset and I do feel violated that someone stole my phone but I am not going to let it tear my world apart. I did feel like crying in Target though. I was mainly upset about the things I lost like ring tones, pictures, and text messages. Those are things I can’t get back but I can take new pictures and download new tones I suppose. I’m just glad I will be having a phone by Tuesday! I just still can’t believe someone stole my phone though. I’ve never had anything of mine stolen before. It’s an awful feeling.
I just had to get all of that off of my chest. I will blog and post some pictures of my trip with Mary. It was fun going to the hockey game and experiencing it for the first time. It was also cool going to the airport! I do miss my best friend though. We had a lot of fun and I look forward to July when she’s coming back down here! I guess I will have to rely on Rans to cheer me up. Lucky for me he’s spending Christmas Eve here and on Christmas Day we’re going to go to his house and exchange gifts. I hope he likes what all I got him. I also will post a picture up of the two of us. We took some pictures while we were in Atlanta. Anyways, I’m going to go finish watching my Hallmark movie and try to take my mind off of my phone situation. I guess whoever took it needed it more than I did. So until next time, later gators.
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It’s official! Highlands, here I come.
It is finally official, I’ve been accepted into Highlands for Spring Semester. See my proof below. I am so excited and so giddy about starting school. All I need to do is attend orientation and then take the placement test. The only thing I’m scared about is the placement test since I can’t remember everything from high school and my core college classes. Oh well, I guess I’ll score whatever I score. I have until Fall of 2009 to get all my core classes finished so I can be accepted into West Georgia for Early Childhood Education.
Kateness is OFFICIALLY accepted to Highlands!
We did get to go to Olive Garden tonight but not the movies. Olive Garden took forever to get our food done so we missed the start of the movie. Sadly, my food wasn’t even that great. I didn’t like it at all but I got spaghetti with meat sauce to go, lol. Mary and my siblings had fun though.
We are currently watching the Survivor finale. It’s definitely getting heated up. Some people are definitely bitter. At this point, I don’t really care who wins since I wanted Matty to win. Poor Matty. He needed the million since he proposed to his girlfriend so yeah. Ha. The only other person I really liked was Bob. Susie and Sugar are okay but I really didn’t care that much for them. Sugar seems so fake. I guess we’ll see who wins and don’t worry, I won’t post it here.
I have a load of Christmas shopping to finish. Luckily I have Rans halfway done. For Mary’s Christmas I’m going to pay for her to get a manicure and pedicure. We took pictures tonight so I plan on getting one printed out and framed for her as well. I was quite surprised to take pictures and not think they are completely ugly. I guess my confidence is growing little by little or else they were great pictures for once.
Anyways, I am seriously rambling so I’m going to get off of here and finish watching Survivor. So until next time, later gators!
Read MoreBaby, we’re forever.
Hey lovelies! Yes, I am in an amazing mood but I will explain more about that later. First off, Mary is in Georgia!!! Oh yes. I picked her up at the airport with Rans. First let me start from the beginning.
On Wednesday night, me and Rans were supposed to meet his parents and then pick Mary up from the airport. When we were getting gas, I decided to call my dad and see if he found out about his liver panel. He was supposed to have the liver panel to see what caused his liver disease. My step-mom told me that their findings led them to tell my dad that there wasn’t anything medicine could do to help him. Basically, there isn’t anything they can do. So I guess my dad is going to be put on the donor list. I’m not sure. I really want to go out there and talk to my step-mom more and find out the exact diagnosis so I can make my mom do some research and find out what we’re dealing with. I’m scared. I love my daddy and even though he’s not in my life that often, I can’t imagine never seeing him again.
On the way to Rans’ house I just put my head against the window and held his hand. Just holding his hand and letting my emotions run free really helped me deal with everything. It was bad because I was worried I would be all down when meeting his parents. He knew I was crying though but he didn’t say anything. He just told me everything would be okay and part of me believes him. I’m just going to put my faith in God that my dad will be okay and live a long life. I just want my dad to be there for the small things ya know; like walking me down the aisle at my wedding and being there for the birth of his grand kids.
The meeting of his parents went really well. I love his parents and his grandma. His dog, Logan, is so cute as well even though he’s a crotch sniffer. Ha. His parents were so loving and you can tell they care a great deal about him. His room definitely fits him as well. It’s so nice to finally meet the people I hear him talking about ya know. I was surprised that he kept the stuffed dog I got him for Easter. It was on his dresser and that made me feel special since he kept it. I gave it to him the first time we were together and since we broke up since then I assumed he threw it away or something. He’s so sweet. I also found out he doesn’t have Yahoo anymore either. That kind of says a lot ya know. He’s not online talking to girls obviously. Not that I thought he was. I trust him completely. When I left his mom hugged me bye and both his mom and dad told me to come back and I was welcome anytime. Seeing the people who raised him just assures me 100% how awesome he is. At least I know where he gets it from now. He also looks like his dad, a lot.
On the way from his house to the airport I got car sick. I almost had to make him pull over so I could puke. He was freaking out since if I puked evidently he was going to as well. I’ve never been to the airport before and it was so neat seeing the planes come down and land. I had to sit on a bench while he went to baggage claim to get Mary. I had to go to the bathroom at the airport and I did end up getting sick. I think it was my nerves and I got really hot in the car. Luckily, I felt better after we picked Mary up! We ran and hugged each other. Lol. Yes, me and Mary had an airport moment. Haha! It’s so awesome having her here. Mary is one of my best friends and we’ve had a lot of fun. Sadly, we haven’t done much since she is sick and now I am not feeling that great either. Tomorrow we’re going to the movies and Olive Garden. Next week we plan on making a few day trips since we both should be feeling better and on Thursday we’re going to a hockey game. Yes, ya know Mary has to see her hockey! Ha.
The other day was also mine and Rans’ anniversary. I wrote him this really long card expressing how I feel and how much he means to me. I’ve never been the type to say how I feel but with him I find it easy. I wouldn’t let him read it in front of me though. At first he never said anything which kind of worried me but he did write me an e-mail last night that made me cry when I read it this morning. I’ve seriously just never had someone to say those type of things to me. I know more and more he is my prince charming.
Anyways, I’m going to get off of here before I get death by a nine year old who wants to feed her puffle on Club Penguin. But first, I leave you with some eye candy of Jack, Selena, and Jack hijacking Selena’s Hannah Montana sleeping bag. Mary went to sleep early so I agreed to let Selena sleep in my floor in her sleeping bag. Wait never mind on the Jack stealing the sleeping bag picture, it didn’t turn out so well!! So until next time, later gators!
Jack playing with Pinky, his favorite toy!
Selena ready for our sleepover! Ha!
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