Tis the Season

Hey all, I got busy last week and didn't have/make time to blog .  I didn't want to NOT have one last post for the year and wish all of you a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Last Sunday, Todd and I went on our annual DFW Texas Toy Run  and it was a great time as always. It was a long day for us because our friends we ride with live in Ft Worth so we get a 45 minute ride in before it even starts. So how the ride works, we have a meeting place in Dallas and a meeting place in Ft Worth. At same time, we start our ride and meet at the same time in a middle city Arlington where our Cowboys and Rangers stadiums are.  It was estimated around 4000 bikes in attendance.
People pull over on side of highway to watch every year and we throw out candy to the kids. Todd wore a hoodie which was perfect holder for my bag of candy. LOL.  The weather was perfect and I was so happy it wasn't as cold as previous years.

helmet hair

THIS my friends is 2 bicycles strapped to a motorcycle with helmets

I have met Santa a few times recently.  I went to see a friend a few days ago who was selling her jewelry at a outdoor market . There was a Santa there for Santa Paws and you can take your dogs for a picture with Santa. I didn't know beforehand or I would have taken my babies for their pic.
I was able to grab a photo with Santa and my friend Shari.

Todd and I went to one of our metroplex Harley shops and guess who was there? Yep, Santa!! So what else is a girl to do but get picture with him again.  

And to top off some Christmas spirit, have you seen a truck painted with chalkboard paint and an inflatable snowman in the back in your town? 

I have really enjoyed the last few days being at home with Todd and the dogs and not getting up at 5:15 am.  Really really enjoying it!!  I hope that all of you are taking some time for you to soak up time with your loved ones. 

This is my last post for the year and I am so happy that I picked up blogging again in July after taking a few months off. I've loved catching up with my old friends and have made some wonderful new friends on blogs this year. Merry Christmas and  Happy New Year and i'll be posting soon. 

Christmas This & That

Well, are you all ready for Christmas?  I truthfully haven’t even started. Mostly because the main people I’m buying for are my nieces and I’m getting them gift cards.  I have a few people I have to get real presents for and I’ll do that this weekend I’m hoping.  I did get a few more decorations in place around the house so that’s good.

I still need to clear off my kitchen table and get the tubs out of kitchen and back into the attic. 

Here are some pics of my fireplace and mantle. It’s a mishmash of my Grinch collection and vintage Christmas.  A Grinchmas!!

Last Friday, my plans to go to downtown Mckinney got cancelled because my friend had a funeral she had to attend to. So we’re rescheduling for another time. I called up another friend and we went thrifting for a few hours and had a great time despite it raining all single day.

I bought a few cute shirts and some bags of ornaments and Christmas cards.  In my ornament bag, I was only interested in the small vintage santa and Mrs Claus that have been bejeweled. Someone wrote on bottom of one 1976. The bag cost 3.99$ and I was so excited!

A few nights ago, a few coworkers and I drove to downtown Dallas to have dinner and go to the Deep Ellum Art bar to show some support for our coworker Ray. It was open mic night and we wanted to see him perform and play his guitar. We had so much fun!!  Basically on open mic night, anything goes- rap, ballads, country, you name it!  Some good , some not so good but God love them it took guts to get up there !!  I realized after getting home a little before 11 pm and not in bed until later , I am old and staying out late on a “school night” is hard. HAHA! I was dragging all day yesterday and I couldn’t wait to get home and sit on couch.

We had our department Christmas party today at work and we did the white elephant game.  That was so funny because people bring some of the strangest gifts. One person ended up with a small package of double A batteries , another person ended up with a case of Bush bean cans , and there was a set of desk top trash cans for pens.  There were decent gifts too such as what I got and that was Starbucks gift card.  One gift was so creative- it was a box of 12 different soap bottles with a typed up note that was for Clark Griswold and his soap of the month subscription.  So cute!  We had lunch catered with turkey and dressing and twice baked potatoes and green beans with peach cobbler. So yummy!!!

I am working a half day tomorrow and then i'm on off until Monday. Yay for long weekends! 

How's everyone doing? The holidays can be hard for so many. I am on verge of tears quite honestly because i'm missing Dad. Tradition is tradition and I've spent every Christmas day with my Dad since I was a kid. This will be my 2nd Christmas without him and almost 3 years he'll be gone ( January). 

Just know that i'm thinking of you and you're not alone.  xoxo

Busy times...

Tis the season to have sooo many things going on.  So my junk show last weekend ended up being much better than I anticipated and I am very happy about it. I just didn’t have time to prepare like I normally do and be completely ready. I had a huge project that I thought would be my “money maker” for the show and I didn’t even get to touch it. Now I have to wait until next year to do because I already bought the supplies and its Christmas related.  Oh well!! Maybe I’ll do them next month and have them done so not to worry about it later.  Todd always helps me take down and load up my trailer after the show.  He even commented on fast and easy it was to tear down and lot less to load so he was happy with my show as well.  My in-laws drove out to see me at the show which always warms my heart because it’s almost an hour aaway from them and they got lost this time due to some detours.  My friend Wendy also came who has never missed one of my shows.  I love my support system!!

This was one side of my booth

After the show, we had to rush to go to our friends Christmas pajama party.  I, of course, found some Grinch pajamas for Todd and I because that’s one of my fave themes. For anyone new to my blog, I have a whole collection of Grinch stuff for a Grinch display every year in my home for Christmas.  I really love The Grinch and have since I was a kid.

The party was a great time AND I won a gift card for best Pj’s costume.  Truth is , there was a tie between me and one of the neighbors dressed as a deer and we had to play rock, paper, scissors ( we cheated and kept doing the same thing) and then had to guess a number between one and twenty and I won.  LOL

Now that the show is over ,I can focus on decorating my house but to be honest, I am throwing in the towel. We have our tree up and decorated and its beautiful. I usually deck the halls, the mantle, the front room, and anywhere else and I have so many fun awesome Christmas decorations but I’m losing my steam.  I think just being so behind this year I’m starting to get anxiety and I just cant do it. I don’t have it in me. I just mentioned this today to Todd, I think I want to put all the tubs back in the attic and just stick with whats already out.  It will still look a little festive and that just needs to be enough. I did manage to replace my doll heads with ornaments and small bottle brush trees in my gumball machine though. I am glad I was able to get that done before I lost my steam.  I have 2 inflatables I need to get up in my yard and put some lights around our front door this week and that’s it.  How about you? Have you ever just called it quits because something was looming over you and the fun went out the window?

I’m taking this Friday off to go hang out with a friend at McKinney square which will help get me back in the spirit again. I try to go every year and see all the fun decorations and stuff. I’m looking forward to that and then just relaxing this weekend.  We shall see ….  We don’t sit still well. haha