Here’s a way to make your very own, custom designed,
Holiday Party Excuse (Generator).
Loving it.
Somegosoftly is so full of cheer and Christmas this December…
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Day Late
So there I am, all finished with my shopping, and I find
this.
There’s nothing this cool coming from me this year. Maybe next time.
Probably my favorite:
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Christmas Coma
I’ve got two weeks to go and I don’t know if I’m going to make it! We worked out all week and weekend, double time. We went out Friday to a Christmas party with some friends, where we were all in festive costumes and drinking fancy winter drinks. We met some great new people and had a blast.
Saturday we went to MK’s work party, which, while less exciting than everyone hoped, was lovely, and MK finally met people he goes in to work with. During market hours no one talks, so it’s the first time in a month he’s said hello to some of these guys.
We also knocked out a little more shopping after deciding we’re no longer at the college-poor age where we could pretend we didn’t know we were supposed to send gifts, being far away from everyone we’ve milked that maybe 5 extra years already…
And we’re having company! Tons and tons of Christmas, Holiday Bowl, New Year’s company. Just thinking about it is making me lazy. Our place is rivaling it’s post Vegas messiness and we’ve been avoiding it. The invitations to hang out and exploring San Diego are so much more fun.
I’ve actually had a giant head cold, which is the dumbest thing that can happen to you when you live somewhere that’s 65 degrees every day. I thought I conquered it like a week ago but more than likely all the going out didn’t help. I was stuck drinking hot tea at the bar.
How are you at Christmas shopping? I’ve bought myself too many things, I am apparently a giant selfish brat. I just want to make sure I get remembered…MK is forcing me to wrap some workout stuff I got, apparently it was one of his planned gifts for me, he was a little grouchy when I came home with it, even though I let him know it was on sale and really I was just helping him out. Didn’t work.
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I’m On To Big Things
They’re like me in high school, not very popular and so misunderstood.
#25
Five New Things I Believe In:
- Kettlebells.
- Vitamin K under eye serum for dark circles.
- Diet Lipton White and Green teas.
- Merry Shrekmas.
- The WhyNatte.
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Fashion Sense
Do you have any? Does any fashion make sense? Does fashion stop being fashionable when it hits a certain mark? Our mall here is aptly named “Fashion Valley.” It has some fashion, and it is literally in a valley, as in, I missed it the first time. Low valley.
Fashion Valley is an outdoor mall. The only 3 malls we have found are outdoor malls. They may be identical to indoor malls minus the roof, but it somehow seems like so much more work to me when I am outside…
I went shopping trying to find a loud dress for MK’s Christmas party. Glitter, sequins, feather trim, fireworks, why not? I was pretty disappointed with my options, which were mostly black with a fake jewel at the waist. Ugh. I get the loud look isn’t always fashionable, but it seems I’m able to find it everywhere when I’m making fun of it and not wanting to find it…I shop like that with friends, who get sick of me PDQ – “Look at this.” You’d look awesome in this.” “OMG, this is only 456$!”
I ended up with a pair of red and white “highest heel” Christmas shoes
and an ivory sweater that may or not be the trendiest thing in my closet, I don’t have the ‘sense’.
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This might work…I think it’s a tree!
Even More Tradition
It seems I forgot some other fun things I’ll be missing this year by not going home. I’m not sure just how long this went on, but one year Dad rewrapped gifts. Like, went to the basement, found toys we didn’t use, wrapped them, and put them under the tree. We three munchkins were young and I don’t think we noticed right away. Hilarious. This tradition then morphed into wrapping random things. Next, was buying something terrible and wrapping it. Dad now annually receives Clam Chowder from Job Lot. Inedible and nasty. We’ve also experienced the wrap-something-so-it’s- not-the-same-shape. I think I gave my brother bubble gum in a giant box.
So, what’s the worst gift you’ve ever gotten for Christmas? I think it’s safe to say I got a fiber optic light up sculpture thing once. At least as far as non readers of somegosoftly go.
November 07 Tally
Going in to November was rough. I knew we would be traveling a lot and that writing would stress and hinder me. I did manage to work out a couple times on vacation, which was great. So I’m taking what I could get. I liked that even without working out every day, I didn’t lose all my progress. It shows me I’ve cleared another hurdle.
Final stats on the Calendar of Fitness:
- I alternated between running and weights 15 out of 30 days this month. Tolerable.
- I have pushed myself with new routines and found new ways to avoid bad food in settings that make it hardest to do so.
- I’ve let my running go a little, substituting other cardio activities. I also purchased some weights, a resistance band, and a balance ball, since I missed having these things at home. I think it’s worth the investment.
If you go to a gym that has Life Fitness machines, I’d suggest trying this one. It’s for the ladies, and at my gym most shy away from it because they are copying men and don’t see men on it. It has done miracles for my problem area, where the butt and thigh meet. It works!
Another great thing about San Diego is our friends. They meet up for exercise more than for happy hour. One friend went out swimming over the weekend, saw a half marathon, and just decided to do it. We’ve done hiking and MK’s all active gearing up for snorkeling and scuba.
Good luck through the holidays to everyone trying to stay fit!
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Big Fat Liar
I’ll admit it, I kept my MTC post within the boundaries of propriety. The truth is that my favorite holiday tradition is indeed a little thing called “The 12 Bars of Christmas.”
What’s that? A pub crawl. In the olden days some genius invented a drink per bar at many bars in a group. Now most cities host some event like this. Christmas is the best time since there’s that little jingle you can customize with your drink and bar of choice. In Austin, PR brought a group out to a well organized crawl, with costumes and Santas and tons of people. He even took pictures at each place, as evidence of the 12 drinks. And what you look like before, during, and after them. We experienced its joy many times. My favorite was the ‘festive name tag’, where you’d perhaps go by “Evan the Elf” or “Caroling Caroline” or “Hanukkah Hank”.
Click here for a sample, I think we were at this one.
Some day, I want to see the all Santa suits one: click here for that.
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People have fallen in love, fallen in the street, and fallen for great shots annually. So it was music to my ears to hear about and get an invitation to the Pacific Beach Pub Crawl. It ends up being the same day as MK’s Christmas party, so he might need a new date.
In the spirit of giving this season, I invite all you Jager fans to be inspired by this site I found:
Traditions Are Our History
The BlogNinjas are wishing you happy holidays. They are the crazy internet group behind the MTC. You can join the clandestine group – post an entry, vote, maybe win, and you may be selecting the next topic. Click here to join. So without further ado, Scottorama came up with this topic for our 5th:
What are your favorite holiday traditions and why?
This question is best answered in the form of me telling my non existent children some day in the future about my growing up:
Okay, kids, let me tell you a story. You’re going to have to use your imaginations. Once upon a time, before the ipod and Tivo and DVR, my dad- your grandpa, used to make us movies. There were these things called VCRs. You could put a cassette tape in it and record tv onto the tape. You would press record and then pause to get out the commercials. Yes, you had to watch it. No, it wasn’t programmable. Use your imagination, I said.
So one year, your grandpa watched every Christmas special there was, and made us a video that had The Grinch, Rudolph, Frosty, Santa Claus is Coming, Charlie Brown, that Claymation movie, and some sing along with the California Raisins, you won’t know that one, anyway. I’m sure there was cursing and breaking of things but I won’t get in to that. It was a hard job. Some parts were messy. At the end there might have been half of Scrooge that got taped over by some guy playing the guitar singing Blue Christmas. Don’t tell grandpa I couldn’t remember the name of that guy, he’ll shoot me.
Your grandpa would put it in and we would all sit as a family and watch the movies. Sometimes even when I wasn’t supposed to I put it in after school. Why weren’t we supposed to? Well, VCRs were very delicate and little girls didn’t know how to make them work, only how to make them not work. No, this was before the internet. You’re not paying attention. What? I’m not that old! We played it Christmas Eve and Christmas when we opened gifts.
After a very long time, the tape wore out, and we grew up, but we would still watch it and laugh and the parts that were slow and broken because we rewound and fast forwarded so much. It was my favorite thing to do every holiday until we bought The Muppet’s Christmas Carol. Yes, that was on tape too. Go download it. Whatever.
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Important Business
It’s a list. Of five things. You keep reading, I’ll keep writing.
#24
Five Favorite Breakfast Options:
- Bagel sandwich featuring egg cheese and a meat.
- Honey Nut Cheerios. Which I hated when I was little…
- Denver Omelette.
- Breakfast burrito. Various ingredients acceptable.
- Rudy’s breakfast tacos. I miss you.
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