High Five for Friday!

It's Friday, y'all! AND it's the Friday before Christmas!!! Yayyyyy!

Tonight my bestie is have an End of the World/Tacky Christmas/White Elephant party at her apartment and I've been diligently crafting my sweater (it's really a sweatshirt) since yesterday afternoon. It's pretty awesome and I can't wait to show it off (don't worry, I'll post a picture of it tomorrow)!

Cold weather made its way back to Texas! I think it's supposed to be in the 50's on Christmas Day which will be nice. Not too cold, but definitely not hot. I hate when it's hot on Christmas and I can't enjoy my TCU Marry Christmas Y'all t-shirt and any next PJs that could be waiting for me under the tree.

Source: plainchicken.com via Catherine on Pinterest

For tonight's party, I'm making these sausage balls. I made them for our Super Bowl party in February and they're SOOOO good! They're a pain in the ass to make (mainly because I don't have a Kitchen Aide Stand Mixer... Sorry I was day dreaming about said mixer's awesomeness), but they're amazeballs delish.

Since it's the last week before Christmas, I got lots of fun goodies yesterday at work (and today when I went in for some trial contacts... I only have 3 pair left and my order isn't in yet). I love the people I work with. They're so much fun and so nice.

Last night, seester and I went on a dinner date. It was so much fun. Gotta love sister dates!

And a bonus: The shortest day of the year is over!!! The days start getting long again! I really don't like when it gets dark at 5 pm. It's so depressing...

What are you high fiving Friday for this week?

It's OK Thursday...

I'm back for another It's Ok Thursday! It's been a frustrating week, but Thursday is here to remind me "it's ok!"



It's OK...
To be REALLY annoyed with all of this Kony crap (call me heartless, but I got the message TUESDAY night... You can stop. You can also RESEARCH what you're copy-and-pasting all over the freakin' place).

To be ridiculously tired of the "Waiting Game" in the job search

To take breaks from friends

To take naps when the weather is yucky like today

To be sad that it's about to rain for about 5 days straight

That I have yet to watch a full episode of General Hospital since the Mannings arrived in Port Charles. I just can't seem to connect with anyone outside their current storyline.

That I never know what I want to eat

That when I do know what I want to eat it's wings (I'm on such a wing kick right now, too bad I don't have a boyfriend to be impressed haha)

To think HTML is way too complicated (I've been trying to make a button for my blog for about two days)

That almost all of my "It's OK" is stuff I'm annoyed with, but I guess that's why it's called "It's OK"

What are you telling yourself "It's OK" about this week?

Real Love

I'm at an age where I'm going to weddings of friends I grew up with, met in college, met recently and have absolutely bonded with in an instant, etc. The point is I'm going to weddings. And I'm single. I don't want this post to turn into one of those "I'm single, boohoo" posts, so hear me out.

Last Monday my family got a very unexpected phone call that flew us up to Missouri and took us from Texas' near 80 degree weather to the verge of snowing in Missouri for five days (we drove the length of Missouri and back on Friday and did actually drive through a mini-blizzard). Anyway, through this unexpected turn of events, there was a lot of looking at pictures and scrapbooks. There was one scrapbook in particular of my step-mom's parents (my adopted grandparents) that chronicled their love in small town, MO, at the age of 13 to their 50th wedding anniversary in 2004, in a larger city, but not the largest city. They were the cutest couple I think I've ever seen.

This got me thinking. Sure, by this time in all three sets of my grandparents' lives they were married and had had one of their children, each. No, I'm not ready to be married and have a child. Not. At. All. However, these sweet pictures (and one very intense love note that I didn't read but heard about a few times while up in MO) made me want this kind of relationship. I want to find my sweetheart and fall absolutely head over heals in love. If you've seen pictures like this of your grandparents (or even great-grandparents, which I still have a full living set of) you know what kind of love I'm talking about.

It's made me impatient to meet my sweetheart (I don't like the phrase "soulmate" because I think that can apply to best friends as well and I think I've found several of those). Impatient because I want to know who he is, where he is, what he does, where he went to school, everything (because at this point I'm about 75% sure I haven't met him, but then again, who knows?). But if this is going to take time, I'm willing to put in some waiting.

Before the new year I posted about wanting a boyfriend, not necessarily THE ONE, and that's still true, but like I said I've become impatient for the love all three sets of my grandparents (and probably my great-grandparents) have/had. I'm going to stop because I'm getting all ramble-y and I feel like this could take a turn for the "I'm single, boohoo" worst. But I hope you get my point. I want a sweetheart, a real love, that I honestly spend the ret of my life with. And I'm willing to wait for it. It won't be easy. I'm already impatient. But it's exciting!

Rest in Peace Grandpa Feaster
So many people miss you already.