four days of bliss

i'm a good houseguest but i'll stab ya in the back when you aren't lookin... no, not really, but i pretended to like thanksgiving dinner when really i thought the turkey was dry, the yams were canned and mushy baby poop crap (OH THE HORROR), and the rolls were burnt. also, the stuffing had cranberries... and i'm pretty sure we all know how i feel about that.

also, she had no wine. that's a big strike.

okay, so really, it was nice to be around cj's famly... the outlaws are a little change of pace from my fam. his grandma is a hoot! she's a wonderful woman and she cracks me up. also, she brings her little weener dog, sammy, everhwhere she goes. (although she brings her on a leash, not in a purse, thank god. i'm sorry if you carry your dog in a purse. i don't hate you, i promise i don't. but that's a big joke to me.) you should see her try to tell all her boys and grandsons what to do, they do it though... boy do they ever!

another card of mine is posted on the purple onion blog! i made this on my crafty weekend with the girls up in seattle. gotta do that again soon!



cj and i were super productive this weekend. we crossed all sorts of goodies off our list. we painted our living room, finished our christmas shopping, bought and assembled a new entertainment center from IKEA that is simply to die for, and ate. oh, did i mention that we ate? and then we ate some more. god we are fat pigs... seriously, neither one of us could quit eating all weekend, it was a free-for-all. but as of now.. no more tom-foolery, no more ballywho...

i will post pictures of my living room soon. last night i had a bit of a tough night, so i cut out aprons to sew. cutting fabric calms me. i know, weird huh? but that was only after i'd stuffed my face with beef stroganoff. i made it with fat free sour cream though, so it wasn't "THAT" bad.

one thing nice this weekend, i found out i won a prize from MANHANDLED... a set of buttons. and not just any buttons, super cute buttons!

i picked these ones:

i love them! they're super cute. thank you dears for
picking me!

also, i found out that this whole last year i've been working, we won't be getting our normal company 401k contribution. a good friend of mine said something that is true... many people don't have 401k, hell many people don't even have medical. but i did, and i was used to it, and i worked the whole last year thinking i was going to be getting it at the beginning of next year and now i'm not. and that's a bum deal folks. that's a bum deal. i can see NEXT year... yes the company's having trouble... but don't you think (when the company was having trouble last january) you should have told us before? instead of letting us stay, be loyal, and take all the bullshit, meanwhile thinking we'll be getting our 401k contributions like the good little dumbasses that we have proven to be? i guess that's too much to ask. and now i've said my piece and i won't be complaining about it anymore. sorry about the one paragraph rant.

onto bigger and better things.

tonight, i'm going to sew :)