Finally Fulltime

This week marks my first week as a full time worker! I started at 30 hours per week and have made my way to 40 each week. I'm excited to be making a little extra money that we can now put towards my student loans in January. In addition to getting extra money to pay off debt, I will be working on Thursdays now which will prevent me from going shopping and spending money that I dont need to spend! Win win situation either way you look at it.

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend spending time with family first at my aunts house on Thanksgiving and then at Jakes grandpas on Saturday. We did, however, get a chance to run the drumstick dash Thanksgiving morning which was 4.5 miles in Broadripple. It was cold and it drizzled a little to-very undesirable conditions for running, but needless to say we both finished running, Jake just finished 10 minutes before me. Yeah, yeah, he runs a lot faster than me, but we were both really sore until yesterday! It made me realize that I had better get moving if I'm going to be running the mini in May! The dash was fun- we got dry fit long sleeve Brooks t-shirts for running and after wards we were ready for meal time.

Friday, the Monrovia Bulldogs played at Lucas Oil for the state championship and lost...they had a great run, but couldnt come through in the end. But, my HS team didnt get to state so that was a great accomplishment for them. Earlier that morning we finished our Christmas shopping with some great Black Friday deals-it was Jakes first experience, I'm not sure if he'll want to do that again or not but he was a good help to me by standing in line!

This morning we put up the Christmas tree and tomorrow we will be decorating it-we didnt have time since I had to work at 12:30 and Jake was ready for bed. We also began our project of putting plastic on our humongous windows to try to keep the cold air out. I hope it works because its been cold in here lately. Speaking of cold when I got back to the office my car had frost on it!! I wasnt expecting that at all so I had to dig my scraper out. Gotta love 4 seasons :) Happy December tomorrow!

Yay, the weekend

It's Thursday & that means Friday is right around the corner! And, today is my day off-so I get to relax a little bit which is a good thing because I think I'm catching a cold. Two days ago I went to bed with a sore throat, yesterday I woke up with a cough, and today I have all that and a huge headache-it's coming if it isnt already here! I just hope I don't pass it along to Jake.

Tomorrow we are going to watch Monrovia in the Semi-State high school football tournement, then Saturday we are going to tailgate & hopefully go to the Purdue/IU game. I will finally get to meet my brothers new girlfriend who is 4 years older than him! Not that it matters, but everyone else in my family has met her so I kind of feel left out.

My sister found out last week that she's having a girl and is due on Valentines day! I've been working on planning her shower and hunting down some good deals in the baby department-which is fun, but I get carried away! I feel for Jake the day I'm preganant and want to buy EVERYTHING in the store! That is if it would be a girl-the little boy stuff doesnt really appeal to me as much. Speaking of being pregnant, my cousin Matt's wife is in the early weeks of her pregnanacy & she just found out the other day. Exciting, but I feel like that 'itch' is coming on a lot lately especially with lots of people around me pregnant or with little kids. I think that means a visit to my mother-in-laws to see her baby sitting kids-that usually does it 6 kids, screaming, etc its good birth control!

Outside of all that I'm extremely excited for Thanksgiving this year. We are doing it at my moms on Thursday and at Jakes grandpas on Saturday-Two times the fun & we should be seeing most of our families which is also good! I've already made a pumpkin ice cream cake to take somewhere, but being ice cream it can not travel very far and both our travels are at least an hour so we might just be eating it at home!

After Thanksgiving I plan on buying a fresh turkey on sale (if they go on sale) from Sam's to make. I never feel like I get enough turkey with all the other yummy foods there are available so one turkey for two people ought to be enough!

Have a great weekend!

Vera Bradley Sale

Into Vera Bradley...or know someone on your Christmas list who is? There's a sale going on now where you can get the Hannah bag (reg $45) for $10.80 with the coupon code: 10offsale Shipping is as low as $8, but you can get more than one to lower the shipping per item! That makes it a $20 gift that would normally be twice as much! I'm debating on buying one for someone, but if you need one too we can go in together and only pay $4 each for shipping! Now thats more enticing.

Copy & paste the link below for a picture-they are really cute:
http://www.verabradley.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&keyword=10442023&x=41&y=11

Christmas Shopping

So the last few weeks I've been spending part of my days off Christmas shopping all over the place! Its a lot easier to find a deal if you are looking, although Jake would say its a lot easier to spend money if you're in a store... He has a point, but still. We actually have a lot of people crossed off and done! My latest was a gift at Kohl's that was regularly priced at $49.99, but was on sale a week and a half ago for $19.99-but they were out. So, I got a rain check and in the mail that same week I received a $10 off your entire purchase from Kohls. So my once $49.99 gift was only $10.48. Thats the steal of the season!

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I dont seem to have a problem buying things for anyone other than Jake. He never wants anything, never thinks of things he could use, and never shops unless I ask him to come with me! With that being said, you can see where I would have run out of ideas-especially since his birthday was in September. If we had a house I could go off of that and buy him something for that, but there are somethings that work well in a house and not an apartment! If you have any ideas about what things you think would make a great Christmas gift, I could use the help. I try to look at electronics, his hobbies, etc for ideas but I'm blank and it's sad! After all Christmas is only 40 days away!