Cyber Monday

I think the only thing I like about the holiday season is the shopping. I've been shopping for the past two weeks and I can't stop. My bank account is slowly shrinking but the good news is I don't eat as much. See, if given the option: eat or shop. I always pick shop. Therefore, I've spent the past month eating Lean Cusine and Smart Ones for lunch. Oh wait, I can't forget about my new favorite: Campbells Soup. It warms me up at work because I am always freezing (today included).

But back to the topic at hand: shopping. I spend half of my day at work frantically searching Internet sites for the best deals. After all, it is Cyber Monday. I MUST buy something. I must contibute to our economy. It is falling apart as we speak.

Nothing. I found nothing. I really need some pants. You really have no idea how hard it is to find pants for a 5'8 woman with my proportions. I wear a size 6, but have to buy an 8 for length – and still that sometimes isn't enough.

Then I surfed for something for Sweetness. I haven't quite pinned down exactly what I'm going to get him but I have some ideas. I kind of go from one extreme to the other each day. So today, I checked out some HDTVs, but none really struck me as a great deal.

I finally settled on something that had nothing to do with CyberMonday – my project I've been working on for grandma. So I ended up working on that for a little bit. Until I realized that I'm at work and actually had work to do.

Nevertheless, my shopping on CyberMonday was very unsuccessful.

Maybe I will still snag a great deal right before or after Christmas. I don't think people will be spending a lot of money, so retailers will have to slash their prices. So maybe it is best that I hold out.

update...

Did the holidays come upon you as fast as it came upon me? I barely have had time to breathe. I guess I thought life would slow down a bit after finishing up classes for the semester but that has proven to be incorrect.

Work has kept me swamped. Don’t you hate it when you go in to work early, so you won’t have to stay late; but end up staying late anyway? That was the last week for me.

I know I’m only 26 but sometimes I feel like I am literally about to lose my mind. Because I have so much to do, I’m finding that I’m forgetting things even though I write it down. Last week, I literally felt like if one more thing was put on my plate I was going to snap. I guess it didn’t help that I wasn’t sleeping at night because of the nightmares.

But the good news is: all I did today was sleep. I was heavily medicated, but I slept! Nothing like a day’s worth of sleep to make you feel better. I haven’t stepped foot out of my house, which would normally drive me crazy. But with it being 40 degrees and rainy, I love staying in my bed with my space heater running to warm my room to 75 and I’m still freezing. (Apparently, I have no blood…either that or I’m getting sick.) So in short, I’m back and I have tons of stories to tell…from my yearly visit with the “kids” to my happy hour stories.

Weekend wrap

Last weekend was a weekend of beginnings and endings.

I met Sweetness mother for the first time. I went to my last class and celebrated it all the way into the way into the next day. Then I did some work. I’m still trying to figure out how I made it through the weekend. So first lets just rewind to Friday.

I met Sweetness and his mother at Cantina Laredo. She actually is really cool (if I can say that about a mother). Sweetness looks just like her and they both have that laid-back attitude about them. She is a lot more talkative than Sweetness (but Sweetness is a naturally quiet person). Mother Sweetness has a lot of energy and is just overall very friendly. She likes shopping and going out to eat (just like me). More importantly, she doesn’t mind that I don’t want kids (neither does Sweetness). And…apparently she doesn’t think I’m all that bad. She told Sweetness that I was a good one.

No more class…Can I just say what a relief it is? Even though I have one more course to take, it’s just a relief that I don’t have to spend another eight hours in a Saturday class. Believe it or not, I have to start applying for graduation now! I’m so glad to have my life back… so glad that I had to have a drink on Saturday.

I met up with some coworkers Saturday night to have some drinks. I feel like I’m free. I didn’t have worry about anything (except one test, but if I fail, I’ll still make a decent grade in the class so no pressure). I ended up drinking way more than I realized. It’s just forces me to loosen up which is just what I need.

So Sunday I had to catch up on work work. We are completely swamped at work. In between having 50 pages going to press before Thanksgiving, dance rehearsals and being angel tree coordinator I was about to go crazy. But I just had to have a drink and chill.

weekend wrap up...

This weekend was a busy one. The good thing is that I got all of the important things done. I worked out. I didn’t blow my diet. I got the bulk of my project done. And I got up at 5:30 Friday morning to take my finance test, which I made an 87 on (that’s good given I had less than a week to learn four chapters). I am 10 times less stressed after getting all of those things done. All I have to do is finish up my project and take my last test after this Saturday (my last class by the way).

I can’t even express how happy I am to finish up everything. Only one class left that I don’t even have to go to. I probably won’t know what to do with all of my free time. But there is so much I want to do. From the simplest things, like having dinner with my friends, to the most complicated ones, like get back to working on my book.

Besides the boring stuff, I did have a pretty fun weekend. Friday I went to a fashion show and Saturday I went to a bachelorette party. The fashion show was so much fun. I think it keeps getting better and better each time. It was nice especially since we could actually afford the items that were being modeled. The models always make me feel like I am fat. But I can just consider it motivation to lose more weight.

I didn’t get a chance to spend as much time with Sweetness as usual. But he is so understanding, maybe a little too understanding. He said that if I was too uncomfortable, I don’t have to meet his mother. Normally, I would think that’s great and not do it. But I feel kind of sad that he doesn’t really want me to meet her. It’s almost like I’m not that important. And I know that’s not the case. I know he’s just being nice and understanding like he always is. So I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do. I guess I’m going both ways because I’m so used to people telling me what to do. And Sweetness never tells me what to do. That’s one of the key things I like about him. He never pressures me into doing something. He just listens to me and supports me in everything.