Christmas

Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Challange. Day 8: My least favorite thing about Christmas.

1. People and their violent acts and just plain maddness during Black Friday. (camping out at Macy's for three days and eating McD's for Thanksgiving dinner...come on people, seriously)

2. Ghetto Christmas music. Such as traditional songs that have been re-done, but with no cool modern twist or anything...just plain, boring, maranantha, Mannheim steamroller, etc... ((it's all about the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, people...haha))

3. Getting Christmas cards that have nothing in them besides the text that was printed, and the sender's name. It's alright I guess, but if you're going to send a Christmas card, why not use your own words and write me something, ha!

4. Being way too concered with the amount of $$$ spent on a gift, rather than the thought.

5. Having to drive the gorge in all weather conditions to visit family.

6. Cleanup afterward.

7. "A Chipmunk Christmas" album, actually I pretty much dislike most Christmas songs where animals or kids are singing....lame. Hahaha. (Mostly because at my last job there were only two Christmas CDs to listen to)

...that's all I can think of for now...

Today

What a great day, three hours or so left to my own....what shall I do. Movies, jewelry, here I come. I totally spaced my pioneer woman meal yesterday- since my in laws came and took me out for my birthday. It was a great day.

So was my party last week, I wound up with the complete twilight zone, a bunch of king of queens, candy, and gift cards...I have the best friend ever!

Anyway, I'll chat more later...gotta get some peppermint ice cream...hehe.


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First Anniversary

Our trip to NE Oregon. This was fun. I have not been here before. It was so much fun. We started by heading to Pendleton, which I really haven't been to much of besides when I had jury duty awhile back. So we stopped at an outrageously priced bead store called Blue Hawk beads, then we checked out a few bookstores. After that we pretty much drove straight through to the small town of Joseph (just north of Lake Wallowa) It was really cute. We had some lunch at a steakhouse called Outlaw Restaurant. We also checked out all the little gift shops-which were pretty cool-got an amazing candle! (woodwick candles) After that we went to check in at our lodge, Flying Arrow resort (just a few miles outside Joseph, on the opposite end of the lake) It was great there. It sits right on the creek. We totally want to come back in the summer when there is alot more to do: horseback riding, fishing, hiking, and the tramway! Then we hung out in our cabin and watched Border Wars (National Geographic show) It was pretty cool. Next morning we went to the United Methodist Church-blame Shane. It pretty much reminded me of my grandparent's Baptist church. We tried skipping through Joseph for lunch and eating in Enterprise...bad idea. The next three towns are completely deserted on a Sunday. Guess they all do the after-church potluck thing. So we had pizza at a very thrown-together looking place. Ha. Then we just took the slow way home, enjoying the scenery, and another awesome bead store in Walla Walla. I just can never bring myself to pay more than $15 or $20 at the most per strand. I guess it depends what it is, but seriously $219 per strand for quartz!!! Back to Hermiston. The end.