the last post of this decade...

I make it sound so ominous, don't I? I still remember, a decade ago, when the clock hit midnight and a bunch of people around the world sighed a sigh of relief that the computers didn't go haywire. That's one thing I find interesting about these "end of the world" things that are supposed to happen at midnight -- what about time zones, people? Which midnight will this happen on?

Speaking of time zones, several people are already in 2010! Hello, people in the futue year! Meanwhile, it's still the afternoon of the last day of 2009. One in which I'll be exercising (oy vey), getting ready, getting dressed up, and having fun with The Boy and anyone else ... it's expected to be a pretty random night, but altogether this has been a pretty random year!

This year I cross-dressed as a man for a Shakespeare assignment, celebrated my 21st birthday, made really great friendships, applied to teacher's college, grew in happiness with The Boy, and have missed my sister and niece so much. I also never expected to make such amazing blogger friends with this blog. It was created mostly just to keep in touch with my sister, especially now that she's moved to Vancouver, and yet it grew and grew and I'm so thankful for all of you :)

Soooo: HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

I hope 2010 is amazing!

My resolution goal (resolutions always seem to be broken) is to be happy ... and lose 3lbs. That's all. (Ahh, Mean Girls reference right there, by the way). What are your goals/wishes for the upcoming year/decade?

And here's a picture from my trip yesterday to Toronto to see some friends!

I believe it's one of my first non-crouching pictures. I am proud.

And maybe this weekend I'll have a 2009 recap/2010 survey type thing. For now, have a happy new year, be safe, drink some bubbly if you'd like, and don't fret about getting a kiss at midnight .. just be happy!

Love you all :)

simple smile #last one of 2009!

Well, the Christmas/holiday festivities are pretty much coming to a close. Jeans are feeling a little more snug, people are enjoying gifts (The Boy got me computer speakers with an mp3 dock which unleashed my inner, inner geek), and snow has finally fallen to make it feel a bit more like a winter wonderland instead of a "freeze your arse off area." I had a bit of a random weekend full of parentals and The Boy, plus times with friends!

My adorable dog Shadow ... and moi.

First was the Christmas meals (both on Eve and Day), complete with wrapping a bow around my dog's neck and making him all festive-like. Plus, my bangs have been cut so short that I can drag them across my forehead for 'full-on bangs' (even though they're meant to be sideswept) so I rocked that look on the 25th/26th. And now looking at the picture above, it looks like one of those dogs who looks like their owners type of ads ... do you see it? I think I need a beard to make that work.

On the 26th -- Canada's Boxing Day -- I avoided every single store except for Shopper's Drug Mart to get new hair dye. I can't stand all the shoppers, all the craziness and hecticness and people tackling others to get that last (insert item you want here). Instead, I went out to dinner with a close friend and across the street from East Side's, we see this lovely sign:

Han is buff. Ja ja, vary good, Han buff, dis good.

By day, it is Chan's Buffet. But by night, it is HAN'S BUFF! It made us laugh so hard. Good ol' Chinese and Thai buffet. Instead we downed yummy bread and Caesar salad while we left our main meals to the side (gotta love the all-you-can-eat salad deal at East Side's). Oh, and we watched the first episode of Jersey Shore and I'm afraid I might be hooked. Save me now!

Yesterday, I went to a nearby city with my parents to see friends that I've known since I was about three years old. We re-discovered a song/video we made up in 2007, which I'll maybe share here (add that to the list of things I need to share with you all). After eating more yummy food and playing old-school Zelda, we decided to go to the local theatre to see Avatar. My friend Tom put it: "It's not a movie, it's an experience." I was prepared to have my mind BLOWN. Instead, the parking lots were jammed pack, there were lines out of the theatre doors, and the movie was sold out. *insert image of me crying here and repeatedly saying, 'WTF, it's Sunday!'*

We decided to check out the local cheap $5 theatre (which made me wish my city had one) and I saw the poster for Ninja Assassin and was like, "YES! I want to see that." As we went inside, we didn't see it listed on the showtimes, so we settled on Fantastic Mr. Fox instead. When we were buying the tickets, we asked whether Ninja Assassin was playing.

GUY: Oh, we were playing it for a week, but not anymore.

FRIEND: But, the the poster's still out there.

GUY: Is it?

FRIEND: Can we have it?

ME & OTHER FRIEND: (stare)

GUY: Hmm, lemme check. Usually the employees have dibs on it, I'll check if there's any left.

*goes on walkie-talkie*

GUY: Yup, there's one left! Just hold on a sec.

*girl comes out and hands us rolled-up poster*

US: Sweet!

It was so random. We still had a bit of a wait before the film started, so I delighted myself (that's what she said!) with a Peppermint White Mocha ... and then my friend wanted to go to Tim Horton's, so I brought my Starbucks into another coffee shop. And I think the Australian national anthem is playing on my Windows Media Player and I'm not too sure how that got there. That's so random (it's the future I can see).

Anyhoos, long story short: Fantastic Mr. Fox IS fantastic. I didn't know what quite to expect and I loved it. Such a clustercuss. And hopefully I will see Avatar soon and rock the 3D shades.

And now, I have a request! You can consider it a late Christmas present to me, if you'd like (teehee). The lovely Andhari (who is also nominated!) told me that I've been nominated for the Newbie Award at 20 Something Bloggers! I honestly didn't expect it ... what a newb, eh? (Oh boy.) If you want to vote, I'd be much obliged and very happy if you could for me! Thanks in advance, and good luck to everyone else who got nominated (I know LivitLuvit will take a bunch, deservingly so!). This weekend, plus being nominated, definitely merits the simple smile of the week.

Hope you've all had a good start to your week!

Can you believe 2010 is only a few days away?

P.S. The Boy made us dinner tonight complete with cabbage rolls (recipe of the week!) and yummy cakes; I'm pretty sure the sugar affected the outcome of this blog entry. If reading this caused any sort of temporary insanity, my apologies.

P.S.S. Smart Ass Sara asked what the heck the belt buckle on my skirt was about from the last post (the picture from me as a kid). Well, to be honest, I have no clue! It came with the skirt and it was a 'P' and I had no clue what it stood for. Sooo ... I dubbed it the 'Posh Spice' skirt and everytime I'd wear it I'd feel like Posh Spice. Yes'm. Take care, all!

bah hum ... happy christmas!

No bah humbugs here, even if it is raining. I just wanted to wish you all the Merriest of Christmases and the Happiest of Holidays! I hope you have plenty of nice, warm and non-nagging company around you this day (and always), with lots of yummy food. And for those who might not have anyone nearby, I hope there are plenty of people online or elsewhere who are able to comfort you! Including me! (INSERT HUGE VIRTUAL HUG HERE WITH MILK + COOKIES)

And while I'll be celebrating the true 'reason for the season', ya also gotta love presents. Here's a flashback of me when I was around 9 or 10, as well as my lovely sister. We decided to don all of our presents (including bows, bathrobe, skirt, and holding our Spice Girls dolls) and it makes for a real good Christmas memory:

You could see my coolness already ;)

Today I'm celebrating with my parents and The Boy for a festive, delicious dinner ... with probably no Spice Girls dolls present I hope you all have a beautiful day, no matter if you celebrate or not :)

Feel the love, share the joy :)

And in true better than coffee fashion, I wish you all had one of these:

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

a very harry christmas!

I've been getting into the spirit lately ... you know that, "Where the heck is the snow? It's Christmas-time!" kind of spirit. Does anyone else get extremely irritated when it's -7°C/18°F, yet there's no snow on the ground? I expect some sort of compensation for freezing my bum-oley off. I want to go sledding, have snowball fights, make snowmen and the like! (I know a lot of others have gotten some snowfall - not here, sadly.) But this post is about a lot more than frostbite without the white stuff, trust me.

A few days ago I painted my nails a festive green (which The Boy says, "Is different and cool ... like a goblin!") and we've finally put up our Christmas tree! Me and my mom sang the Christmas classics ("My Only Wish (This Year)" hehe) while we decorated our tree and I think it looks b-e-a-utiful. And though I had to fight to put my Harry Potter ornament up, it looks like it'll be a very Harry Christmas after all!

Yep, I am cool with my Potter-on-a-broom ornament.

Then, just a couple of days ago me and my close friends had our annual Christmas party -- this time it was just with us girls, and it was so nice being able to catch up after months of ... life ... just getting in the way. We had a potluck dinner so I made some mashed potatoes and brownies (I burned my hand trying to get them out of the oven ... FAIL!), though we of course had to have our Secret Santa presents exchanged before we even ate, haha. My amazing friend replaced my Serendipity DVD (yay!) and got me two Utada Hikaru CDs, which helps feed into my Japanese-music obsession (again, I am cool).

We then ate some scrumptious dinner and I completely failed at making hot chocolate - I made the hostess one and it seemed warm enough so I made three more for my friends and they all stirred it and waited for the marshmellows to melt ... but I made it too cold. Whoopsies! At least the food was good? haha.

After busting out the Photobooth and watching numerous Youtube vids (I'd suggest listening to the voicemails of Dimitri the Stud ... guaranteed to provide lots of funny lines!), we decided to watch Paranormal Activity. Y'know, the most festive movie of the season (cough, cough). We all huddled together under one ginormous blanket and one friend ended up leaving half-way through, leaving the rest of us to sit there in suspense. I think it's the ending we got (since there's three or four, methinks) that left us going, "Huh, that wasn't as scary as we though it would be." But of course, we watched an episode of GLEE afterwards to ward off the heebie-jeebies. I think it's been five years since I used that phrase, wow.

The night winded down and there was just me and a friend left to leave ... but then, after a few questions about life (not just school/jobs), we ended up sitting on the hostess' couch and just ... talking, talking, talking. About our fears, our lives, the messes and the problems, the few things that make us smile, and how much we've grown yet not grown at the same time. We've all been friends since high school and now we've all gone through so much that is the polar opposite of a 'high school life', and I'm so glad that we do have these friendships.

I didn't get home until 4:30am, and to me that's a mark of a great Christmas potluck night the girls. I'm so thankful for that group of friends and how close we can still be and how normal (yet crazy) we can all be when we reunite. They are my simple smile of the week.

Since then I've spent some time with The Boy and, of course, watched Serendipity. I hope you're all ready for your holiday festivities and that you're having some good relaxing times, too. I'm definitely thankful for all you bloggers out there, too.

And would anyone like to send some snow my way?

It'd be an amazing Christmas present! Take care everyone :)

'tis the season ...

I've finally started my Christmas gift-shopping ... and finished in two days! I've mailed out the Christmas cards, am going to start wrapping the presents, and have allowed myself to listen to Christmas music (I'm sorry, but I can't stand when it's playing in the middle of November).

But our tree isn't up yet.

That lovely tree is from the mall I did about half of my Christmas shopping at. I would love to have that tree in my house ... but I think my ceiling is too low (hehe). Still, I cannot wait to decorate the halls with boughs of ... holly? Does anyone ever do that anymore?

But to get myself more into the Christmas cheer, I'm doing a meme from Ramblings of a Fab Brunette! I've also been tagged by Manju (who is having an amazing giveaway here) and I promise I'll do hers soon!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? 
Hmm, both. With gift bags it makes things a little easier but ... wrapping paper is ridiculously pretty.

2. Real tree or Artificial? 
We've always had an artifical tree, just because it's easier to haul it out of the basement then go choose one. I went once to a tree farm and helped cut down a tree, but my family's all about the artifical ... erm, that sounds wrong.
 
3. When do you put up the tree?
Hopefully today! Can't believe we're waiting for less than a week.

4. When do you take the tree down? 
We take it down January 6th -- tradition, since that's apparently when the Wise Man left the manger.

5. Do you like eggnog? 
YES! And apple cider. Mmm.

6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Probably anything to do with Polly Pocket or little teeny racecars. Yep.

7. Hardest person to buy for? 
My parents -- my Mom always asks for "peace on earth" while my Dad says, "for you to move out." Um, Merry Christmas to you too.

8. Easiest person to buy for? 
Any of my friends, since we usually do Secret Santa :)
 
9. Do you have a nativity scene?
At the Church we go to, yes.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? 
I prefer mail, and then for those friends I see more often, I say it in person or through e-mail.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Hmm, really don't know. I try not to think of them that way, I guess!
 
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? 
101 Dalmatians, Home Alone (1&2), The Nightmare Before Christmas, Serendipity, Anastasia (okay so those last two technically aren't Christmas movies but they are set in wintertime, so ... there).

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? 
Umm, the week before Christmas? I am terrible.
 
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? 
Maybe if it was food and then I recycle the packaging? Hehe.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? 
Every single thing my Mom makes ... and strawbery-kiwi candy canes (ohhhh yeah).

16. Lights on the tree?
Always. Doesn't feel the same without them!

17. Favorite Christmas song?
"Let It Snow", "Jingle Bell Rock", "Christmas Tree" (Lady Gaga, haha), "O Come Emmanuel", "Last Christmas" (WHAM!).

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
I almost always stay at home -- last year I went to Niagara Falls with The Boy, but this year we're exchanging presents. So home I shall be!

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Ummm ... Rudolph?

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? 
Hmm, I think a star. Our angel keeps tipping over like she's suicidal or something.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? 
On Christmas Eve ... ever since I was a kid.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? 
The lines, the "oh this is the perfect gift for you!" and then you go to the store and they've all sold out, and how people make the holiday into more of a commercial holiday rather than what it really should be about.

23. Favorite ornament, theme, or color? 
Hmm ... gold and red? Anything really, though. And my favourite ornament is my Harry Potter one (I will show it to you once the tree is decorated)!

24. Favorite for Christmas Dinner?
All the Polish specialties and delicous cakes.

25. What do you want to do for Christmas this year?
Having an amazing potluck dinner with my closest friends, have a great time exchanging with The Boy, and no arguments with my family.

26. Favorite Christmas tradition growing up? 
Waiting to eat our dinner until the first star shone in the sky.

27. Favorite tradition now?
Listening to Christmas music while putting up the tree -- complete with hot cocoa.

28. Favorite Christmas Memory?
I have a picture (I'll try to find it and I'll post it up!) of me and my sister after we opened our Christmas presents ... I guess we decided to wear/hold all of our Christmas presents at once and I have two big gift-bows in my hair as I'm wearing a skirt and a bathrobe and holding a Spice Girls doll (from what I can remember)! That picture/memory always makes me smile.


Feel free to do this tag if you'd like! On another note, I want to thank you all ... I've hit 100 followers! This is a milestone for me -- I never expected to interact with so many amazing people and to know you don't mind reading my ramblings -- well, it means a lot to me :) Thanks to each and every one of you ... and I'll have a giveaway sometime in the early new year to celebrate you and 2010? Yes, that sounds good hehe.

What are your plans for the weekend/next week?

Hope you all have a great weekend!

dear body ...

After being a hermit for the last little while, I was finally a little social with The Boy and my close friend. First was watching Law Abiding Citizen and cuddling/munching on pizza. He still has a bunch of exams to go, so I'm glad for every moment we can be together. After that, I went with my friend to Starbucks for our first Peppermint Mochas of the season (yay!) and while spending some much-needed catch-up time with her, she finally introduced me to the first episode of GLEE. Consider me hooked!

Yummy!

But now I want to steer somewhere different. Another 'social' moment I had yesterday was with my parents -- where my Dad asked me if I worked out my butt, because it's (quote) "out of proportion with your body. It's too big." (unquote) I've always had a pretty big bum (even getting nicknames like ghetto booty) but to hear from my own Dad that there was something wrong with my body ... well,  it hit me. Surprisingly, it made me want to praise my body instead of being self-conscious of it. So, while this might seem like I'm tooting my own horn or something ... I think you should try this out. Each body part is special in its own way (oo-er), so why not thank it?

Dear Body ...

Dear Legs ... You're pretty long, and that's cool. But knees, please stop cracking. You make me sound like I'm forty years old.

Dear Hands ... You're attached to orangutan arms, but you're pretty handy (oh boy). I have an odd relationship with you, left hand -- thanks for helping me write, but you make it really hard to find lecture seats. By the way, I'm sorry I keep nibbling on your fingernails. I promise I'll get rid of that habit one day.

Dear Chest ... Thank you for finally growing.

Dear Butt ... Please stop growing. But I like your size, no matter what anyone else says.

Dear Heart ... Thank you for not breaking after all those silly mishaps with the same guy over and over again. Thank you for hanging in there, and thank you for pounding with joy every single time I see The Boy.

Dear Mouth ... Thank you for allowing me to taste so many delicious things. Oh, and thanks for pretty darn good teeth. But I beg you, please don't let my wisdom teeth grow in.

Dear Eyes ... You allow me to see so many things, even though I'm stubborn and refuse to wear my glasses half the time. Please don't take it too hard. Oh, and thanks for changing colours throughout the years -- I like you hazel.

Dear Stomach ... We have the biggest love-hate relationship, and you're probably the most sensitive part of my body. But thank you for allowing so many foods inside of you.

Dear Brain ... You have the weirdest memory ever -- I don't think knowing the lyrics to ten thousand songs will ever help me out unless I'm on a game show. But I love you nonetheless.

Dear Hair ... you have really annoying bangs. But you're pretty nice and you keep my ears nice and warm.

Dear Body ... Thank you for still going after all these years.

P.S. Sorry I neglected you nose, and ears, and anything else I missed ... you know I love ya.

Love, 

Me

I welcome anyone else to do this -- just let me know if you do, I'd love to read them. Hope you didn't mind me ranting on about my body, haha. I hope you all have an amazing rest of the weekend -- I'm going to be finishing up the Christmas cards, playing The Sims, catching up on blogs, and hopefully have a few more social moments while gift-shopping.

What do you have planned for the weekend? :) 

festive cheer and freedom

I'm feeling a little festive, so I had to change my little header above. Reasons for such festivity?

i) I got my first Christmas card in the mail today from Nicole and it made my day :)

ii) I'm finished all my exams and projects! It feels so great to have a few weeks off from school.

iii) I'm looking forward to catching up with friends I haven't seen in ages.

iv) A few overdue awards from Carla and Sara! I got the Kreativ Blogger award from Sara and this lovely award on the left. Both involve sharing 7-10 facts about yourself and then passing it along. I'd like to award Manju, Margarita, Amanda, and Krissy! I decided to put a little spin on things and instead share ten things I can't wait to experience  and do in the next few weeks -- hope you gals don't mind!

1) Reading

I have the biggest pile of books waiting for me to just tackle them with hungry fingers (makes it sound like it's a feast, meep). Sometimes it feels good to just read for pleasure instead of reading something that's on a course outline. I've already read the last book in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series called "Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?" My sister got me into these books way back when the first one came out -- I feel like a bit of my childhood is gone now it's over (the same feeling I felt when I finished reading the Harry Potter series haha).

2) Catching Up With Friends

It's going to be so good to hug those friends I haven't seen in a while and avoid all topics regarding school and work. I can't wait to catch up with the friends I can just talk to about anything and everything. As you get older, it seems harder to hold onto friendships, mostly because life just gets in the way. I love the friends I have where we understand life is busy, but what we have is important. Ah, I'm a cheeseball.  

3) Apple Cider (Cocktails)
Me and my closest friends are bringing back our Secret Santa tradition and exchanging our gifts at a potluck-dinner Christmas party that I can not wait for. Hopefully on the menu is apple cider cocktails, which is the recipe of the week. I've never actually tried them, but just the thought of them makes me thirsty. This list is making me both hungry and thirsty now (my stomach just grumbled).   


4) Snow!

And I don't mean that nasty, gnarly snow -- that's only good when you have chestnuts roasting on an open fire (and I don't have a fireplace). But I love the feeling of seeing a good few inches of powder snow on the ground, and seeing it glisten as the sun hits it. So pretty. Today's been a combination of a little snow and rain (not cool).

5) Making Things

That sounds so ominous ... what will I be making? BABIES! (just kidding!) But I hope to tackle some form of home-made crafts, either to give as gifts or just to admire.  Catching my eye are making frosted glass, an exploding box of photos, or this snowglobe that I found via weheartit which led me to this blog entry about de-cluttering your kitchen and making snowglobes. I thought it was adorably cute and would love to try it out ... maybe with a little plastic coffee cup? And, as you can tell, I've been doing a lot of discovering via the world wide web ... that's because I'm a lazy bum who spent the first day of freedom on the computer, yipee.

6) Cards & Presents

Over the next few days I'm going to be writing and sending a bunch of cards and I can't wait. My mom's been grumbling and saying she hates writing cards out to our relatives, but I love to send things (paying for postage? not so much love there). On top of that, I'm going to be braving the mall with its overcrowdedness and try to get some nice items to give to the parentals/the friends/The Boy/the dog (yup, he gets a present)! Wish me luck that I don't get trampled? :)

7) Getting Out Of Town

The past few months have all been a routine, with not much room for adventure. I would love to go on a road trip (with clear roads) to a nearby town and explore while getting yummy samples of fudge. Or maybe go to an outdoor skating rink in another city.

Now, The Boy's never been skating, so I'm sure we would be as paralyzed as the couple in that picture (but hopefully we'd look just as fancy, haha). I get so happy at the thought that I don't have to see my school for the next few weeks ... makes it sound like I hate school (ironic, since my whole life is going to be school), but it's just overwhelmed me. I just want to get outta town.

8) Sleeping

I need to catch up with my pillow -- projects have made me abandon it far too early in the morning, so I can't wait to sleep some more.

9) The Holidays

Christmas and New Year's are right around the corner -- it's going to be a bit different this year with my sister on the other side of the country (plus the fact that my family's kind of given out presents early ... oops), but I know it's about more than just that. And while plans for New Year's are still up in the air, hopefully it'll involve more catching up with friends and a new year's kiss? (Ever since that episode of Friends where none of them get kissed at midnight, it's kind of stuck with me. I am cool.)

10) Drinking LOTS of coffee and getting a holiday drink from Starbucks/catching up on blogs/playing The Sims and/or Final Fantasy/watching a ton of movies/experimenting in the kitchen/drinking yummy hot chocolate/cleaning my room/making graphics/just relaxing.

Yeah, that's about it in a nutshell.

Thanks to you all for always being so amazing, I'm sending lots of hugs your way.

If you'd like a Christmas card, drop me an e-mail :)

And now I have to ask:

What's made your week better?

the clumsy & weird side of nikolett

After a week of more hectic deadlines and teacher's college applications, I finally get to unwind! Me and The Boy took a road trip to scenic St. Catharines (about an hour away) and though our mission was to hand in our teacher's college forms personally in case the mail sucked, it was fun driving through winding roads and taking a look at the countryside and the vineyards. Today also involved some clumsiness as I knocked things over, ripped my jeans, and almost collided with about five people while running around on campus. All in a day ... ay yi yi.

Fortunately, I also got a mid-week break in the form of my dearest classmate that I love to hang out with. We bond over our love for video games and just being plain weird. We had a Christmas party that our Multimedia program was having that night -- which involved a) a really drunk classmate who kept getting me to dance, and I told him I wouldn't dance with him until he bought me a drink (which of course, he never did and I'm glad he didn't!); b) lots of yummy chicken wings and Irish nacho fries (nom nom nom); and c) lots of cheese, but no wine for me (it gives me headaches).

But before that par-tay, me and my friend indulged ourselves in our new obsession -- Photo Booth on Mac. It's one of most twisted programs ever, and I love it. So here's a little photoshoot of our pics (we took about 50 altogether!). You'll see my friend's wearing a pretty white scarf - me (with a lot of help from my mom) knit that for her as an early Christmas present! She loved it and I'm so happy :) I'd love to give one ito everyone f I had the time/patience haha. But if you'll settle for a Christmas card, make sure you check out this post here.

Now onto the pictures. And umm, I warn you, this may scare you away from this blog completely:

There is one picture that we took that is honestly horrifying and that I don't think I could ever share here -- unless enough of you ask me, hehe (I'm easy, shh! ... that came out wrong). All in all, I'm trying to relax and try not to let the stress get to me. It helps when you have a lot of people around you to give you hugs. Lots and lots of hugs. And a yummy cup of hot chocolate doesn't hurt, either!

I really hope you've all been having a great week!

What do you have planned for the weekend?

*I wish you all have amazingly spontaneous moments, too!

For me, it's watch Serendipity tonight (this one's for you, Girl With The Golden Touch!), catch-up on blogs tomorrow, miss my sister some more, browse Nicole's new Etsy shop(!), and work on my final assignments plus study for my exam on Tuesday! But after that, fun times!

And thanks everyone for your sweet comments about getting me out of the funk. It's helped, trust me :)

P.S. I have some long overdue awards to talk about and give away, so look forward to that and perhaps some Christmas wishlisting next time. Have a beautiful weekend, everybody!