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its the eve of another new year. do we really need a new year to make resolutions? i personally think no. i understand for many people a new year signifies change, but what about making birthday resolutions? it marks a new year for you as well. if you're not ready for a change for real and you have to make it as a new years resolution then maybe you aren't really ready for that change! any hoo..just my little rant... hope you all have a happy, safe and healthy new year. may you accomplish all the goals you set for yourself this year, be them new year's resolutions or otherwise...

another christmas is over. its just not the same as when i was a kid. memories that have been collected from the years waking up in the middle of the night and sneaking downstairs to verify that santa did in fact come, and i really had been a good girl, and seeing the cookie crumbs and empty milk glass the great presents that as a kid stand out..my cardboard "grocery store" with plastic groceries and cash register. or the year i got my purple bike!! or once we got older and no longer believed in santa, there is the year that all my brother wanted was a dog. on christmas eve my parents said we could each open a present. my brother was handed his stocking. it was FULL of individually wrapped porcelain dogs, that my parents borrowed from a friend. with each one he unwrapped he got more and more upset, and my parents laughed harder and harder. at the time he was heart broken, but i think he's able to laugh about it now! i think. i miss the standard stocking stuffers i would g

ever since i was a kid christmas has been all about the food. and the cookies. i remember around third or fourth grade being home cuz it was christmas break and my mom made butter cookies. my brother and i got to "help" by putting the sprinkles on the cookies. (i remember distinctly breakin 2: electric boogaloo was on my mom would make an array of cookies for christmas..butter cookies, pizzelles , almond balls, cherry almond balls, rum balls, and fruit cake. once i was old enough i really did help my mom bake the cookies, and roll all those damn balls! then i became the designated butter cookie maker, which was fine by me bc i got to use the cookie gun! once i moved to la, i made the cookies for myself bc really its all i have left of how christmas used to be. (going to rob's brother's for christmas is good cuz they have 2 boys that are still all about santa, but really its not the same as being with my LOUD italian family, not to mention completely different food..

it's hard to be positive. it's hard to not get all depressed. our third and a half attempt at putting an offer on a house has been rejected yet again. but "it's a buyer's market" and " now is the time to buy" don't believe this bullshit this is from the banks that are trying to create a hype over the foreclosed houses that they are slowly dribbling onto the market so that that can instigate bidding wars from the frustrated wanna-be first time home buyers. we have been looking online for well over a year we started out looking at houses via two different web based agencies, if you can call them that the first web based guy was creepy. do\id my research online and i knew more about the house than he did. but we still used him to show us a few different houses. then we also ventured into the second web based agency. they definitely have the better site- more user friendly, they use a google map that you can move around on so if you don't know n

so while walking to my car after work i was reminded of a line from a classic movie from the early to mid 90's hackers "spandex is a privilege, not a right" sooo true! oh 90's movies you speak to me on soo many levels. how i miss the 90's! not so much the early 90's like high school, but the early to mid 90's like college. those were the days! feeling the waves of nostalgia roll over me... but i digress there was a big girl wearing leggings as pants. (ok not spandex, but pretty damn close!) and i don't mean with a tunic or longer top, but with a normal length shirt falling just below the waist. really? do i need to see that? really? no, no i don't i understand being comfortable with your body, but would you wear a bikini on the beach? probably not now i consider my to be a big girl, not huge, but i could stand to lose a few pounds (which i'm not even going to think about until after christmas bc to me december is alll about food!) i might not