Christmas Plans

"Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. Pleased to put a penny in an old man's hat. Pleased to put a penny in an old man's hat. If you've no penny, a hay-penny will do. If you have no hay-penny then God bless you. If you have no hay-penny then God bless you."

Sorry, I haven't written in a while, or posted Thanksgiving pics, but things have been busy and I still haven't found my camera cord. It's very annoying.

Christmas is a busy time. I love the hectic, festive spirit that is all around. I love the planning and buying and wrapping and giving of presents and visiting with people you love. I love the music and the decorations. I love the real Christmas spirit that comes with knowing the real reason for the season, the Savior.

What I don't love is being so far from my families. I wish that I could go to visit everyone this Christmas season. I wish I had the money to fly to Kentucky, Maine, and maybe even Canada (I miss my Night Owl) and spend time with everyone. I wish I didn't need to make money and save money and be responsible so I could do all the things I want to this Christmas.

In short, I hate being a grown up.

Ok, so there's my whine and rant for this post.

What I AM doing for Christmas is spending another Christmas in Rigby with the Olsen crew. They're awesome. I love holidays with them. I miss my old traditions, but I enjoy making new ones and enjoying others'.

D and I will head up North early next week and spend the week with Mom and Dad Olsen. We'll stay until Saturday, when I have to come home to go to work. We both have 2 full weeks off from school, but I have my shifts at SBGH. While we're gone, Chuck will take care of our cats and when we return we'll watch his cats while he goes to visit his family. It seems like a pretty decent arrangement.

So those are our Christmas plans. More to come soon, I hope!

~KK~

Thanksgiving and other thoughts

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. We went to D's parents house and spent the holiday with her family and some mutual friends. The food was fabulous (D and I made rolls) and the company was even better. I will post pictures as soon as I find my camera cord (the thing really should have a GPS system attached).

I have been working on my NaNo project, but I am afraid that I'm just not gonna make the deadline. Too much has got in the way this month and my word count is just too far behind to catch up. 35k in 2 days is just too much to accomplish, even if I did nothing else. I'm not too discouraged; there's always next year to meet the goal of 50k in a month. I've got all year to prepare.

Christmas preparations are underway. D and I are getting our photographs taken by the wonderful and beautiful Jaimee of Cyr Photography on Sunday, and this will make up a large portion of our Christmas gifts to both of our families. We'll bring the Christmas decorations home tomorrow and start decorating our little apartment and wrapping our other gifts.

I love the Christmas season. Not the weather, mind you, but everything else. The meaning of the season, the festive spirit, the music, and decorations. It's all so wonderful.

I'm so glad that it's finally here!

~KK~

NaNoWriMo

I've been neglecting both of my blogs in order to focus on NaNoWriMo. Forgive me if I don't write until the competition is over. I am determined to write my 50,000 words in 30 days. I will return to blogging in December with a long report on life in Idaho.

Love to you all.

~KK~

;)

Happy Birthday to Diane.

:D

Happy birthday to me, I've turned 23!

HA! I made a rhyme!!!

I'm excited about this birthday. It's not like we're doing anything special (we're still broke) but I've had a lot of warm wishes and some pretty neat presents. I'm especially excited about getting my dad's present in the mail because he always gets me the best things, things that I really need, not just things that I want. He told me that I can buy things that I want in my 40's and to focus on what I need for now. Good advice. So, waiting with baited breath...or something. I've received some great gifts, both practical and frivilous from many of my loved ones, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, but the best gifts I've received were the hugs and well-wishes and phone calls. They're the best. Hands down.

I'm finally starting to feel better after a bout with the flu (not the Swine flu. Thank heavens) and I'm actually waiting anxiously to be able to go back to work (MONDAY!!!). I thought the time off would be good for me, but I miss my residents and students and I'm bored out of my tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!

D's birthday is Monday, so I'm planning to make her dinner and take her to a dollar movie. We're doing our Ward trunk or treat for my birthday.

Excitingness!!


~KK~

Visiting

So this weekend we went up to D's parents' house to visit and to see our other "adopted" sister whom I had never met and who D hadn't seen in 9 years. It was an awesome weekend. I was, of course, very nervous, new people you know, but S made me feel very comfortable and safe and we just had so much fun. Except for the fact that I was sick allof Friday night and D was sick all day Saturday. That part we can overlook in favor of funness, right?

hahaha.

So my preparations for NaNoWriMo 2009 are well under way. I am blogging like mad on my other blog The Write Stuff and preparing outlines and cleaning up my space so it's workable...on top of juggling 2 jobs and my Avon sales. But that's a whole other blog post that I'll get around to later.

I am also fighting illness, trying to keep sickness at bay so it does not interfere with my busy life. I SOOOOO do not have time to get sick. Keep me in your prayers.

So all's well on in this life...for the most part.

~KK~

Dating

So, I've been seeing this guy, kind of casual, friend dating. We're going to the theatre tonight to see "Thouroughly Modern Millie" and eat dinner. I'm excited because we're also going to be performing at the Festival of Trees in December. Him playing guitar and me singing. It's fun and he's super sweet. He's safe, I guess you could say. No pressure. It's good to get out once in a while. Or every Friday night. hahaha.

There are some issues with my dating this guy, namely he's older and not LDS, but for now I'm content to keep going on as we have been, having fun and enjoying each other's company.

I'm not used to "dating." It's kind of a foreign concept to me. I stay at home. I babysit people's kids so they can go out. I don't date. It's a weird new kind of thing...

~KK~